• MLK Guild to sponsor commemorative events Jan. 12-16

    A moment of silence is observed before the 2011 march steps off on Jan. 16 to begin the observance of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Long Branch. FILE PHOTO LONG BRANCH — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Guild of Greater Long Branch will sponsor events including a gospel…

  • Monmouth Park racetrack — a taxpayers’ black hole

    The time has arrived for the state of New Jersey to sell, lease or close Monmouth Park racetrack in Oceanport. How many more millions of taxpayers’ dollars have to be pumped into the state’s political pit? During the 2011 Monmouth Park racing meet, the state of New Jersey lost in excess of $6.6 million taxpayers’…

  • Readers urged to avoid pet stores

    Two paws up to Macerich shopping malls for banning pet stores in more than 70 malls across the U.S. and offering space for adoption centers for homeless animals instead. This follows the company’s compassionate decision last year to ban booths that sell sugar gliders — exotic animals who may die from the stress of loneliness…

  • Rest in peace, Common Sense

    Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: knowing when to…

  • 11th annual KDM fun run to be March 10

    The 11th annual KDM three-mile fun run and walk will be held March 10 rain or shine. The race, created to keep the spirit of Keith McHeffey and other victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 alive, will start at 11 a.m. in front of the Sea Bright Recreation Center. It will proceed south…

  • Curley calls for overhaul of county salaries, spending

    First-term freeholder elected director of Bd. of Chosen Freeholders BYMIKE DAVIS Staff Writer John Curley FREEHOLD — Entering the final year of his three-year term as a freeholder, John Curley was unanimously elected as freeholder director by the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders at the Jan. 5 reorganization meeting. In a fiery speech to…

  • Bishops address poverty in New Jersey

    Catholic bishops call for community, govt., interfaith response to increasing poverty BY PATRICIAYOCZIS Correspondent Eighteen Catholic bishops, who represent seven dioceses in New Jersey, a state often ranked as second or third richest in the nation, have pledged to tackle the issue of the growing number of people living in poverty in the state, which…

  • Uppity Children with talent

    Children wait to perform in the Your Library Has Talent! show at the Long Branch Public Library on Jan. 7. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Members of Uppity Children perform during the show. The talent show featured musical numbers by children of all ages.

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