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    Members of the Sackbuts trombone band perform at the 12th annual BBQ & Trombone Night held at the Salvation Army Red Bank unit on July 11. The annual event attracts trombone players from throughout the New York metropolitan area, who play classic, swing, gospel and other music for the trombone. ERIC SUCAR staff This year,…

  • in the service 

    Air Force Airman Christopher D. Hofer, a 2010 graduate of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School, graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen…

  • ‘Rock to Prevent’ comes to Rumson Aug. 4

    Prevention First will hold its third annual benefit concert, “Rock to Prevent,” Aug. 4 in Rumson. “Rock to Prevent” highlights the spirit of youth and community and inspires young people to write, play music and find their own voice. Quincy Mumford and the Reason Why will headline the concert for the third year in a…

  • Advocates picket Historic 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 A rea residents organized a protest at Longstreet Farm in…

  • On acts of omission by many in Sandusky case

    The law recognizes two kinds of crimes: those of commission and those of omission. The first kind requires an overt act, whereas the second is simply forbearance, i.e., doing nothing when the law requires it. The recent conviction of Jerry Sandusky stems from overt acts, thus acts of commission. And while those acts commanded the…

  • Canterbury Art Show Sept. 14-16

    RUMSON — St. George’s-by-the-River, 7 Lincoln Ave., Rumson, will be the setting for the Canterbury Art Show on Sept. 14-16, with 70 artists already signed up for the juried and nonjuried parts of the show. A large attendance is expected for the event. The three-day exhibition and sale of artwork will include a meet-the-artists reception…

  • Celebrate 1937 with big-band concert

    In 1937, the Eisner family of Red Bank donated their home at 84 West Front St. to house the town’s public library. The same year, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong and Tommy Dorsey were topping the music charts. Friends of the Red Bank Public Library will be hosting a summer evening of big-band music…

  • Eisner deed guides boro’s decision to replace bulkhead

    Living shoreline at Red Bank library ruled out despite environmental alternative BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer Borough officials have opted to replace the deteriorating bulkhead at the Red Bank Public Library property rather than restore the natural shoreline. RED BANK — More than a year after a natural shoreline was proposed as an alternative to…

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