• Advocates picket Longstreet Farm

    Animal rights protesters criticize park’s sale of animals for slaughter BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Youngsters visit with a sow, one of the animals living at Historic Longstreet Farm in Holmdel, which the Monmouth County Park System maintains as a circa-1890s working farm. KEITH HEUMILLER Area residents organized a protest at Longstreet Farm in Holmdel…

  • Rollin’ on a river

    DINNIGAN’S DIVERSIONS LIZZ DINNIGAN Being a former cruise industry editor, I developed a true affinity for the water. I love all types of boating adventures, and in the last three years I have experienced a 10- mile rafting trip on the Delaware with my kids, a sunset sushi schooner cruise in New York Harbor, sunset…

  • Even Club Fed doesn’t have a golf course for inmates

    CODA GREG BEAN One thing is pretty sure: Where Peter F. Burnham, the disgraced ex-president of Brookdale College, is likely going, they won’t have a golf course. Burnham, who pleaded guilty July 24 to a number of the charges against him for siphoning money from the college into his own pockets, is scheduled for sentencing…

  • Greg Bean has facts and logic wrong

    Greg Bean reports as fact in his Greg Bean reports as fact in his editorial column that Gov. Chris Christie is on the wrong side of the marijuana legalization and same-sex marriage issue (“Christie will save New Jersey from turning into Colorado,” July 19) because it thwarts the will of the people. Well, let me…

  • Chicken may be source of antibiotic-resistance

    Researchers estimate that more than 8 million American women suffer from painful, antibiotic-resistant bladder infections — and chicken may be to blame. According to a joint ABC News and Food and Environment Reporting Network investigation, supermarket chicken is often contaminated with the same kind of E. coli bacteria that causes urinary-tract infections. E. coli bacteria…

  • Seminar will shed light on human trafficking

    There are between 12 million and 27 million human-trafficking victims worldwide. Victims are women and men, children and adults, American citizens and people born in other countries, all forced into modern-day slavery. And New Jersey is a hub for this horrific situation. In the past, the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education (Chhange)…

  • Paddle-boarders stand up for autism in race around NYC

    Oceanport resident raises funds, awareness for autism, clean oceans BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer Chris Macioch trains on a paddleboard for the upcoming SEA PaddleNYC to be held Aug. 17, a 26.5-mile paddle around Manhattan to raise funds for the Surfer’s Environmental Alliance and several autism nonprofits. ERIC SUCAR staff Chris Macioch wakes up with…

  • L.B. mayor wins field and recreation dollars

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Mayor Adam Schneider took home $2,500 for the city’s recreation department last week after finishing first in a field of local mayors and council members in the Belmar Celebrity Chase on July 28. Taking advantage of a four-minute head start on each competitor, Schneider finished ahead of…

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