• Travelin’ music for the Jazz and Blues Festival

    BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer The Jersey Shore Jazz and Blues Foundation’s three-day Jazz and Blues Festival will be divided among three towns on three dates this summer. “We are actually bringing the music to a couple of new communities,” foundation manager Doris Lazur said. In some ways, organizing and executing the three one-day events…

  • Contest seeks Garden State’s cutest pet

    The New Jersey Veterinary Medical Association (NJVMA) has launched the Cutest Pet in the Garden State contest at www.facebook.com/njvma. To enter, pet owners should access the Facebook page and submit an image and video (optional) of their pet by July 28. During the two-week voting period that follows, pet owners should ask Facebook friends to…

  • MCSPCA needs help managing cat crisis

    The Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MCSPCA) does not euthanize adoptable pets. As a result of kitten season starting early this year, the MCSPCA shelter in Eatontown is in crisis mode as its feline population has hit a record 565 cats. The number of cats the shelter has taken in…

  • Play will open with benefit for Rose’s Fund and MCSPCA

    FREEHOLD — Center Players will present “Sylvia,” an adult comedy about a love triangle between a middle-aged man, the dog he adopts and his surprised and perplexed wife. The production includes an opening night fundraiser to benefit two animal loving organizations: Rose’s Fund for Animals and the Monmouth County SPCA. “Sylvia” was written by A.R.…

  • Harness horse camp seeks applicants

    The Harness Horse Youth Foundation (HHYF) seeks applicants for its five-day harness horse day camp to be held 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. July 26-30 at Gaitway Farm, Manalapan. HHYF seeks students between the ages of 12 and 14 as of Jan. 1, 2011. The camp fee is $150, which includes lunches and all camp…

  • Special events planned for last day of the fair

    On your mark, get set, eat! A pie-eating contest will take place on the last day of the Monmouth County Fair. Children ages 12 and under will compete at 12:45 p.m. July 31, and participants ages 13 and up will compete at 1 p.m. Registration for the pie-eating contest will take place at 11 a.m.…

  • Stanley J. Buziak

    Mr. Buziak, 94, of Toms River, formerly of Jersey City and Bayonne, died July 12, 2011, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He served as a bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Prior to retiring, Mr. Buziak was employed as a mechanic for the U.S. Postal Service. Before that, he…

  • Edward (Eddie) C. Jones

    Mr. Jones 82, of Hamilton, died July 16, 2011, at Robert Wood Johnson, Hamilton. He served his country during the Korean War. Prior to retiring, he was store manager and warehouse supervisor for ACME Supermarkets. After retirement, he worked in maintenance for the Monmouth County Park System, Lincroft, for 15 years and volunteered at Robert…

  • Robert L. Farry

    Mr. Farry, 77, of Farmingdale, died July 10, 2011, of brain cancer. He was a licensed professional land surveyor for Birdsall Engineering, Belmar, for 53 years. Mr. Farry served in the Army National Guard of New Jersey from 1952 to 1960. During the 1970s, he was on the Farmingdale Board of Education. He was predeceased…

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