• 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…

  • Middletown adopts $63.5M municipal budget

    Plan includes 1.97 percent property tax increase BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — A reduction in state aid and rising health care expenditures helped contribute to the 1.97 percent property tax increase included in this year’s municipal budget, said Mayor Anthony Fiore. “When you get those cuts, plus the rise in costs, it’s almost…

  • Planners ask for revisions on mosque expansion plans

    Planning Board’s 1999 resolution of approval called into question BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — The Islamic Society of Monmouth County’s plans to expand the parking lot of its mosque on Red Hill Road will have to wait at least another three weeks. Following nearly two hours of testimony in front of more than…

  • CODA

    Christie will save New Jersey from turning into Colorado GREG BEAN Almost lost in the summer election hoopla was a stunning vote in the New Jersey Assembly late last month to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. In a 44-30 vote, the Assembly passed a bill that would make possession of 15 grams…

  • Picketer’s aim at Longstreet Farm is misplaced

    I have been visiting Longstreet Farm frequently over the past few years — photographing everything that I could find that would become the definitive record of this living history gem. I have seen a corps of dedicated people tirelessly work to maintain this patch of rural past for the education of all who enter the…

  • Mission Matawan’s teen volunteers are an asset

    The teen volunteers might have been at the beach on the 98-degree day. Instead, kids from Matawan’s First Presbyterian Church, Route 34, and teens from other local churches were out with Diana Noble, Ron Wolf, Rhoda and other adults, helping Matawan seniors and others with home repairs and yard work. Every mid-June, Mission Matawan comes…

  • Twp. should court businesses for Bell Labs property

    Please note the following found on page 28 of the July issue of New Jersey Business magazine, and I quote: “Businesses are viewing New Jersey more favorably than they have in a long, long time, and it’s evident by the commitment so many companies have made to relocate to New Jersey. Belgiumbased biopharmaceutical company ThromboGenics…

  • Girls’ Night Out at the museum

    The Monmouth Museum’s “MORE Art From Found Objects” exhibition will provide the backdrop for a Girls’ Night Out event 6-9 p.m. July 25. Attendees will join an Art Antics Team and compete to create the best found object work of art. The event will include music, light fare and raffles. Tickets are $25 for museum…

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