• Army 2nd Infantry Division vets sought

    The 2nd (Indianhead) Division Association is searching for anyone who ever served in the Army’s famous 2nd Infantry Division at any time. For information about the national association and its annual reunion in Reno, Nev., to be held Aug. 23-27, 2012, visit www.2ida.org or contact the association’s secretary-treasurer, Bob Haynes, at [email protected] or 224-225-1202.

  • Ramblers host family square dance Aug. 24

    MIDDLETOWN — A family square dance will be held at Croydon Hall Senior Center, Leonardville Road, Leonardo, 7:30- 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 24. Couples and singles are welcome. Admission is $3. Children under 18 are admitted free but must be accompanied by a parent. Refreshments will be provided. No dancing experience is needed. The…

  • Arts & music fest seeks sponsors

    HOLMDEL — The ninth annual Bayonet Farm Arts and Music Festival will be a full afternoon of cultural enrichment. Fine arts, live bands, international dance, crafts, plus activities to keep the little ones happy too, according to organizers. The festival takes place on Sunday, Sept. 23, from noon until 5 p.m. at Bayonet Farm Park,…

  • School supply drive supports Backpack Project

    Family & Children’s Service is seeking donations for its annual Reading Buddies Backpack Project, which provides new backpacks filled with much-needed school supplies to elementary school students in underserved communities throughout Monmouth County. Administered through FCS’s Retired and Senior Volunteers Program (RSVP), the Backpack Project attempts to level the playing field for those children whose…

  • CODA

    Chris Christie could give a keynote speech to remember GREG BEAN Parental advisory: Some material in this column may not be suitable for all audiences, especially those readers in grade school, grandmothers, librarians and certain members of the American Family Association, which monitors the media for stuff it considers tasteless and immoral. All right, now…

  • Completion of Henry Hudson Trail could be expedited

    I am an avid user of rail trails and other linear parks, most notably the Henry Hudson Trail (HHT), part of the Monmouth County Park System. I have a dream to ride a regular road bike, without the thick tires of a mountain bike, from Rt. 537 in Freehold through the Highlands on the HHT…

  • Longstreet Farm should be left alone

    I would like to applaud Robert Fischer’s measured and polite response to Suzanne Dragan’s intrusive picketing of Longstreet Farm (“Picketer’s aim at Longstreet Farm is misplaced,” July 17). We have lived in Monmouth County for 20 years and still remark on the wonderful parks and nature settings and how blessed we are to live here.…

  • Greg Bean has facts and logic wrong

    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 17) because it thwarts the will of the people. Well, let me focus only on same-sex marriage for the…

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