• The extreme sport of gardening

    GREEN SCENE GOTTI KELLEY “Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious talk because of an irresistible urge to get up and pull a weed.” — Lewis Gannit T he sun has barely committed to its…

  • The high cost of freedom

    Innocence Project exoneree Alan Newton addresses Monmouth U. students on value of knowledge, justice BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Alan Newton, who spent 22 years in prison before being exonerated and freed with help from the Innocence Project, tells his story to more than 100 Monmouth University students on Sept. 13. KEITH HEUMILLER Freedom, for…

  • At 125 years, Monmouth Medical is poised for the future

    Specialized units, expansion of community-based services among innovations planned BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Alumnae of the Monmouth Medical Center nursing program (l-r): Beverly Forgerson Krott, Rose Letson, Amanda Smack Edwards, Jean Carroll Toboada and Pat Bonora with Frank J. Vozos, president and CEO of Monmouth Medical. NICOLE ANTONUCCI LONG BRANCH — When Rose Letson…

  • 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

  • Chabad plans revised to address parking concerns

    Zoning board will continue hearing application for Chabad at the Shore on Sept. 24 BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Plans to convert the former West End movie theater into a Chasidic religious center have been revised to address concerns about adequate parking at the site on Ocean Avenue. At the Sept. 10…

  • Yacht club hosts vintage boat show Saturday

    LONG BRANCH — The Long Branch Ice Boat and Yacht Club will host a vintage boat show 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 event…

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