• Grant funds will enhance suicide prevention programs

    Monmouth U will use grant to identify and provide services to students in crisis BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Michelle Scott WEST LONG BRANCH — Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 18- to 24-year-olds, affecting approximately 3,700 young adults a year. Of those, 60 percent are college students, accounting for 1,000 to…

  • Yacht club hosts vintage boat show Saturday

    LONG BRANCH — The Long Branch Ice Boat and Yacht Club will host a vintage boat show from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept 22, at the clubhouse grounds at 235 Renwick Place. Local wooden and modern boats are expected, as are boats from several states, some as far away as Florida. The…

  • Residents oppose county plan for DPW yard

    Plans also call for main fort roadway to connect Rte. 35 to Oceanport Ave. BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer EATONTOWN — Plans for a Monmouth County Department of Public Works (DPW) facility at Fort Monmouth were met with an outcry from residents and officials at the Sept. 5 meeting of the Borough Council. Members of…

  • Hate crimes in Manalapan were an attack on all of us

    CODA GREG BEAN Like many in our readership area, I was appalled and outraged by the vandalism spree in Manalapan last week, when red swastikas and hateful words toward Jews were spray-painted in various locations around the Monmouth Heights residential development on public and private property. As of this writing, no arrests have been made,…

  • Jewish community coming to grips with acts of vandalism

    On Sept. 6, Manalapan, my town, was hit by vandalism aimed directly at the many Jews who live there. Threatening words and symbols of hatred that we all recognize were spraypainted in red all along several main thoroughfares. Some neighborhood development signs had to be taken down because of the words and messages that infected…

  • Lessons of tolerance need to be taught

    A fter seeing the news on TV on Sept. 6 and reading the News Transcript on Sept. 12, it reminded me of Solidarity Day, Nov. 4, 1984. I would like to quote this meaningful passage that is read every year: “and this it is, which has stood by our fathers and us. For it was…

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    A new message has been posted on a sign at the entrance to the Monmouth Heights residential development in Manalapan. On Sept. 6, anti-Semitic symbols and slogans defaced the sign. An unknown individual has since posted, “Hate stops when you refuse to stay silent when you witness it.” JACK MURTHA

  • Newcomers Club to host Touch-A-Truck Sept. 29

    FAIR HAVEN — The Newcomers Club of Rumson, Fair Haven, Little Silver, and Shrewsbury will hold the fifth annual Touch- A-Truck fundraiser 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sept. 29 at the Fair Haven Fire House, 645 River Road. This event gives children of all ages the opportunity to sit and climb on all types…

  • Greenbriar Falls residents want boro to intervene

    Homeowners’ assoc. wants maintenance bonds to fund unfinished work BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — The completion of the Greenbriar Falls active adult community remains on hold after more than five years of squabbling between the homeowners association and the former developer over what residents say is unfinished work. Peter Lux, treasurer of…

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