• Community support needed for annual prom boutique

    Long Branch – Family & Children’s Service (FCS) is again reaching out to area businesses, organizations and individuals to help continue its annual prom event, “Countless Dresses, Countless Memories.” The agency is currently accepting donations of new and gently-used dresses, gowns, shoes, purses and other formal wear to offer for sale at the event, which…

  • Former Sea Bright mayor remembered for her service

    Maria Fernandes passes away at 59 BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer Maria Fernandes SEA BRIGHT — Former Mayor Maria D. Fernandes, 59, died Sunday morning, Feb. 26, at Barnabas Health Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Long Branch after persevering through long-standing health issues. Six days prior, Fernandes was taken to the emergency room at…

  • Jobs, future of Monmouth Park tied to lease

    Agreement calls for thoroughbred horsemen to operate racetrack BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer Nearly two years of uncertainty surrounding the future of Monmouth Park may be over by week’s end as the state and a new operator close in on an agreement to operate the Oceanport racetrack. After a Feb. 27 special meeting, the New Jersey…

  • March programs at Long Branch library

    The Long Branch Free Public Library hosts stories and a craft for toddlers at the main library on Broadway on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. or at the Elberon Branch on Fridays at 10 a.m. School-aged children are invited for stories and a craft on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4 p.m. at the main library, and…

  • Family Science Night

    Above: Students participate in “Feel the Vibes,” one of 11 experiments exhibited during Family Science Night at the Audrey W. Clark Elementary School in Long Branch on Feb. 22. Below: Third-grader Jennifer Wooten has some fun with a glob polymer made during Family Science Night. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Reader: Cartoon is in poor taste and column is offensive

    I find the cartoon intimating Gov. Chris Christie as one who creates disunity, maintains stereotypes, and spreads no joy through the region in very poor taste. So let me get this straight — unless you agree with a radical left-wing agenda, you are creating disunity? You claim that traditional marriage is a stereotype? Marriage as…

  • Soldier On program coming to Fort Monmouth

    A n exciting new program for veterans is among recent positive developments in the ongoing redevelopment of Fort Monmouth. AsMonmouth County’s representative to the FortMonmouth Economic Revitalization Authority, (FMERA), and chairperson of its Veterans Sub-Committee, I am proud to announce that Soldier On, a nonprofit organization that works in partnership with the U.S. Department of…

  • Job fair attendees in search of better futures

    An estimated 800 job seekers attend Brookdale job fair BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer One of the estimated 800 people who attended the Brookdale Community College’s Job Fair on Feb. 24 talks to a company representative. Two women talk to a potential employer at the job fair, held at the Long Branch Higher Education Center…

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