• Chivas USA taps MU’s Allen in MLS supplemental draft

    Old Bridge native is third Hawk in last two years selected by an MLS team Monmouth University senior All- American R.J. Allen was selected by Chivas USA in the Major League Soccer (MLS) supplemental draft. Chivas USA, which plays its home matches in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, selected the Hawks’ defender with the…

  • Bulldogs starting to find their stride on the hardwood

    BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent With four straight wins to its credit, the Rumson-Fair Haven High School boys basketball team has improved its record to 8-3. This week the Bulldogs were hoping to get back at a pair of teams that defeated them earlier in the season. RFH is slated to meet Holmdel, which won on…

  • Casey runners put down fast times at Yale Classic

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Monmouth Regional High School’s Cara Wiebalk is safely over the bar as she competes in the girls pole vault at the Monmouth County Indoor Championships at the Bennett Indoor Athletic Complex in Toms River on Jan. 20. Wiebalk finished sixth in the event, clearing 8-6. Red Bank Catholic went to…

  • A life that hit all the right notes

    Legendary jazz aficionado Ralph Gatta played his days by ear BYADAM GOLDENTHAL Correspondent Johnny’s Jazz Market in Red Bank where Ralph Gatta dedicated his days to his beloved jazz museum and his west side neighbors for more than 47 years. RED BANK — Ralph Gatta, proprietor of Johnny’s Jazz Market on Shrewsbury Avenue, lost his…

  • Call for art entries for ‘Gimme Shelter’ event

    The BelmarArts Council (BAC) is offering a challenge to visual artists to create art that helps to create homes. The exhibit, titled “Gimme Shelter,” will benefit the Affordable Housing Alliance , Eatontown, and the Belmar Arts Council’s Housing Help Program and raise awareness of the crisis many local residents face in finding safe, affordable housing.…

  • Winter concert

    Clockwise from top left: Kindergartners perform “Party in the USA” during the Winter Concert at Amerigo A. Anastasia School in Long Branch on Jan. 19. Youngsters await their turn to perform; a group of kindergarten classmates sing “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” during the concert, held at the Long Branch Middle School auditorium. PHOTOS BY…

  • NOTES

    Eatontown students rehearse a scene in the musical “Annie,” which will be performed at the Monmouth Regional High School Performing Arts Center Jan. 26-28. PHOTO COURTESY OF REGGIE D. KLAZT The ninth-annual concert for the Food- Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties will be held 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 in the Youth Temple, 22 Pilgrim…

  • Reformed Bible Study to begin in Red Bank

    RED BANK — The Orthodox Presbyterian Church in New Jersey is targeting the greater Red Bank/Monmouth County area to conduct an outreach ministry. The ministry is attempting to gather people for informal weeknight studies and discussion of God’s word from a Reformed perspective, according to a press release from the church. The Red Bank Reformed…

  • Transparency bill sheds light on ‘shadow government’

    Bill requires state, regional & local authorities to post public information online BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer Jennifer Back Close to 600 local authorities and commissions spend $5 billion in taxpayer money per year that until recently was nearly impossible to track in New Jersey’s so-called “shadow government.” “Seven out of 587 [government entities] have…

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