• Baseball comedy to be shown at temple

    Congregation B’nai Israel, 171 Ridge Road, Rumson, will host a screening of a baseball film titled “The Yankles” at 7 p.m. Aug. 15. The film, a comedy about an ex-professional baseball player and a group of Jewish, orthodox Yeshiva students who form an upstart baseball team called the Yankles, is rated PG-13. Running time is…

  • Charles S. “Chillie” Callman

    Mr. Callman, 95, of Rumson, died July 30, 2012, at home. The former longtime Rumson mayor and councilman graduated cum laude from The Lawrenceville School and with honors from Princeton University, Princeton. He was also a graduate of the Dale Carnegie Institute and the New York Institute of Finance. Mr. Callman retired as a vice…

  • Chess grandmaster to give exhibition in Red Bank Aug. 12

    RED BANK — The Monmouth Chess School and Club has announced that grandmaster Nigel Davies, former British under- 21 chess champion and winner of 15 international competitions, will give a 20- board simultaneous exhibition and lecture starting at 1 p.m. Aug. 12. The participant board fee is $35; observer fee is $25 (does not apply…

  • Talk on local history to be held at Crawford House

    TINTON FALLS — Author Michael Adelberg will present an afternoon of local history on Aug. 19 from 1-4 p.m. at the Crawford House, 750 Tinton Ave. In his book, “The Razing of Tinton Falls,” Adelberg highlights an important event of the Revolutionary War, a raid on Tinton Falls, by re-creating the day in the voices…

  • Red Bank gets a HEADS up on contemporary art

    NJMoCA features Romanian artist in first public art exhibit BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer “HEAD XXX” 2012 acrylic and pigment on plywood RED BANK — The next time you find yourself strolling along the sidewalks of Red Bank, don’t be startled to find a pair of eyes staring back at you. Or 54 sets of…

  • Community invited to Veterans Job Fair at Brookdale

    I am retired from the U.S. Army and currently serving as operations administer at Brookdale Community College. I am coordinating a Veterans Job Fair to be held Aug. 27 at the Brookdale Lincroft main campus. The event also welcomes friends, family and community who are seeking employment or services. It will be held from 9…

  • By losing all of his races, he became a world role model

    CODA GREG BEAN My youngest son was a good little wrestler, but there came a time when his coach asked him to wrestle up a couple of weight classes in a bout with another school because the team had two wrestlers in my son’s class, and none in the heavier class. That meant that my…

  • Paddle the Navesink Day set for Sept. 8

    RED BANK — The third annual Paddle the Navesink Day, a free community-wide celebration of the Navesink River, will be held on Sept. 8. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Maple Cove at the foot of Maple Avenue. Local boating clubs, businesses and organizations along Red Bank’s Navesink River will offer people opportunities to…

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