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Sea Bright businesses rebuild, reopen
BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Some Sea Bright businesses along Ocean Avenue have reopened. These include Sea Bright Supermarket (above), Giglio’s Bait and Tackle, and North Shore Menswear (r). To the north, blocks of storm-damaged storefronts remain shuttered, some with “for sale” signs. FRANK GALIPO ‘Open for business” signs are beginning to appear in storefront…
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Get a taste of New Jersey’s food history
The Long Branch Historical Association is sponsoring a talk and book signing by Little Silver author Karen Schnitzspahn at 7 p.m. May 29 at the Long Branch Free Public Library, 328 Broadway. Schnitzspahn is the author of “Jersey Shore Food History: Victorian Feasts to Boardwalk Treats.” She will take the audience on a historic culinary…
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Long Branch Library display celebrates National Nurses Month
LONG BRANCH — The Long Branch Public Library Community Room is featuring a personal display related to the history of the E.C. Hazard Hospital, formerly located on Washington Street in Long Branch. In 1942, local resident Josephine “Josie” Olivadotti graduated from the hospital’s nursing program and was an operating room nurse for many years. On…
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Choraliers present ASL-friendly concert
The spring concert, “Magical Moments of Broadway,” will be presented by the Choraliers of Eatontown at 3 p.m. June 9 at Woodmere School, 65 Raleigh Court, Eatontown. The program will cover decades of Broadway music from old favorites like “Carousel” and “Music Man” to modern offerings from “Mama Mia” and Disney shows. The Choraliers, a…
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Long Branch reaches accord with Ocean Place
BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer The owners of the Ocean Place Resort and Spa have negotiated a settlement with the city that allows for expansion of the hotel, including building a second tower that would increase the room count. The hotel recently underwent a $7 million renovation. NICOLE ANTONUCCI The Ocean Place Resort & Spa…
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Monmouth Park prospects upbeat
Track operators cite plans to make racetrack family-friendly destination BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Dennis Drazin OCEANPORT — Stakeholders in Monmouth Park are optimistic about the future of the racetrack, with plans for new amenities including a hotel and investors willing to buy into their vision of the park as a family destination. “Some of…
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Neighbors oppose rezoning Old Orchard site
The Borough of Eatontown is considering yet another application to develop the Old Orchard Country Club site. This concept would bisect the golf course along the internal stream, with retail stores to be built on the property that borders Route 36 and two-story adult condominiums on the Reynolds Drive half. The neighbors of Old Orchard…
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By late May, there will be red-eyed love in the air
CODA GREG BEAN It was our first summer in Massachusetts after moving to a wooded community from one of the dry, prairie states, and we were completely unprepared for how green the place was and how so much stuff just grew there without human intervention. We didn’t know what any of it was, of course.…
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