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    Lunch Break’s Fall Gala, “Harvesting YourHelp to Feed the Hungry,” is slated for 6 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Two River Theater, 21 BridgeAve., Red Bank. Tickets are $125 and include food, wine, entertainment, auctions and presentation of the Norma J. Todd Service Award. Raffle tickets are $20. Send check payable to Lunch Break and…

  • September exit strategy

    GREEN SCENE GOTTI KELLEY “It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn’t a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.” — Eleanor Perenyi Has hodgepodging descended on your garden? Overcrowded with dense and uncontrolled growth, weeds hiding in plain sight and nary a bloom in…

  • NPS delays release of plan for Hook

    BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent MIDDLETOWN — The National Park Servicewill delay the release of a draft General Management Plan (GMP) for Gateway National Recreation Area until early next year, Minka Sendich, a planner for the park service, said Sept. 9. The GMP includes plans for the future of historic Fort Hancock. After the draft is…

  • Tarantolo calls for action on vacant Army housing

    Howard Commons housing units could be demolished BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer FREEHOLD — The Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA) will work with Eatontown Mayor Gerald Tarantolo to resolve concerns about the now-vacant Howard Commons military housing, FMERA Executive Director Bruce Steadman said last week that concerns about the former military housing units on…

  • Long Branch pursues open space grant for new park

    BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — City officials are once again hopeful that grant money will help fund a new park located along the banks of Troutman’s Creek on Atlantic Avenue. During its Sept. 13 meeting the City Council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing an application for a Monmouth County open space grant that…

  • Dorothy Parker Day returns to Long Branch

    LONG BRANCH — Dorothy Parker Day returns to the city of her birth on Oct. 2. Parker, the quintessential New Yorker, was born 118 years ago in a West End summer cottage. One of the most famous, most quoted, often controversial American writers of the 20th century, Parker was a prolific fiction writer, poet, essayist…

  • Ordinance meets rules for affordable housing

    BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer WEST LONG BRANCH — Officials are hopeful that affordable housing regulations adopted last week will bring the borough into full compliance with state regulations. The Borough Council adopted an ordinance at the Sept. 21 meeting that establishes affordable housing regulations within the town. Borough Attorney Greg Baxter said in an interview…

  • St. James’ to celebrate worship centennial

    LONG BRANCH — St. James’ Church will celebrate 100 years of worship at its current 300 Broadway location with a Solemn Mass on Sunday, Oct. 2, at 10 a.m. The service will follow the 1892 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, a reflection of what worship was like at the time. The Mass will include hymns…

  • Law is a simple solution to a horrible problem

    CODA GREG BEAN Once in a while, you hear something that makes so much sense you wonder why nobody thought of it before. That’s certainly the case with a story in the news last week about the Toronto city council, which voted unanimously Sept. 21 to ban the sale of dogs and cats at pet…

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