• Long Branch, Shore start grid seasons on Saturday

    BY MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent Shore Regional High School’s Nick Grigos is among the starters returning from last year’s NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I championships. Above, Grigos picks up yardage against Dunellen in the sectional final. He plays fullback and running back for the Blue Devils, who start their 2011 season Saturday at Keansburg.. FILE PHOTO…

  • WCTC sets 9/11 anniversary programming

    WCTC 1450-AM recently announced its schedule of Sept. 11 coverage to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. During her “LifeAdvice” program beginning at 6 a.m., Jennifer Lewis Hall will speak with a 9/11 survivor who wrote a book and to Shari Burkat, who runs the 9/11 support organization Voices of 9/11, which has…

  • ‘Wild Nature’: Nature photography by Eric Sambol

    Monmouth University is hosting a solo exhibit of wildlife photography by Eric Sambol. “Wild Nature” will run through Sept. 30 at the Pollak Gallery on the West Long Branch campus. The exhibit is co-sponsored by the Urban Coast Institute. Sambol, of Brick, uses the medium of photography to reawaken his childhood passion for nature. The…

  • Red Bank Guinness Oyster Festival Sept. 25

    RED BANK — The second annual Guinness Oyster Festival is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 25, noon to 7 p.m. (rain date is Oct. 2). The event will take place in the White Street Parking Lot in downtown Red Bank, with access from White or Monmouth streets and within walking distance of the Red Bank Train…

  • Art offers ‘New Impressions’ for cancer patients

    Riverview art therapy program taps art’s power to heal BY KRISTEN DALTON Art therapist Mary Gambarony works with cancer patients at Riverview Medical Center. RED BANK— If there were a recipe for healing, what would it be? Mary Gambarony, art therapist at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, encourages patients to write their own as…

  • Resource Center hosts public law workshops

    A s part of its community outreach initiative, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Monmouth Vicinage, Self- Help Resource Center will hold a series of workshops on court-related topics. These seminars are conducted in conjunction with Ocean-Monmouth Legal Services and held at the courthouse of the Monmouth Vicinage, 71 Monument Park, Freehold. Sessions are free…

  • Ida Block

    Mrs. Block, 102, of Holland, Pa., died Aug. 31, 2011. She was a resident of Freehold from the 1930s until she moved to Long Branch in 1951, where she was active with the Long Branch Hadassah. Mrs. Block was responsible for the finances of their business, The Auto Boys. She also worked as a receptionist…

  • NOTES

    The seventh annual “Autism Family Services of New Jersey Beach Bash” is scheduled for Sept. 11 in Belmar. This event is open to all New Jersey families living with a child with autism. The day is free for families and includes organized activities, arts and crafts, games, expo tent, and a surf camp in which…

  • Worms are what’s new at Work Opportunity Center

    LONG BRANCH — New residents have moved in at The Arc of Monmouth’s Work Opportunity Center (WOC) in Long Branch, and they are being welcomed with open arms by the individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) who receive services there and are raising the worms for profit. Raising worms first began as a green…

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