• Donation funds purchase of Love INC building

    EATONTOWN — Love INC, a faithbased support organization for families needing emergency help, recently received a gift of $25,000 from the members of First Presbyterian Church of Red Bank. The gift has been used to help purchase the building Love INC has been using for its Furnished with Love ministry in Long Branch. The store…

  • Navesink Hook & Ladder celebrates 125 years

    Legacy of volunteers connects generations BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Navesink Hook & Ladder’s current firehouse and vehicles, Brushtruck 112 (1992 Ford), Engine 110 (2004 Smeal) and Engine 111 (1995 Pierce). Navesink Hook & Ladder Company No. 1, Middletown’s oldest volunteer fire company, turns 125 years old this year . The company was founded on…

  • Submit a photo for local calendar contest

    The annual OceanFirst Bank calendar contest is under way, and photographers are invited to submit original local photographs to be displayed in the bank’s 2012 community calendar. More than 12,000 calendars will be distributed to OceanFirst customers and the general public throughout Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties. Recognition will be awarded to each photographer featured…

  • ‘Places We Have All Been’

    The Oceanic Free Library in Rumson is hosting an exhibition of watercolor paintings by Linné A. Grant, which include sites in Farmingdale, West Long Branch, Keyport, Sandy Hook, Middletown, Matawan, Rumson, Spring Lake and more. “Places We Have All Been” will be on exhibit at the Oceanic Free Library, Avenue of Two Rivers and Ridge…

  • stork club 

    Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, announced the following births: A girl June 17 to Mahogany and Kanin Ligon of Tinton Falls. A boy June 20 to Jill M. and Bradley C. Day of Red Bank.

  • Zen center relocates to Shrewsbury, Asbury

    SHREWSBURY — Elberon Zen Circle has moved its location to the QuakerMeeting House, at the corner of Sycamore Avenue and Broad Street (Route 35), Shrewsbury, and the Yoga Basin studio, 603 Mattison Ave., Asbury Park. Zen meditation practice, based on a 900-year-old Japanese Zen tradition, will be taught and practiced at the Quaker Meeting House…

  • Body of Red Bank woman found; husband charged

    Viridiana Beltran- Gomez ABERDEEN — Authorities recovered the body of a Red Bank woman that had been buried in Aberdeen. The remains of 26-year-old Viridiana Beltran- Gomez were found June 25, according to Monmouth County First Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni. Her body was buried less than 100 feet from Garden State Parkway mile marker 119…

  • R.B. Charter School lauded for student achievement

    Carly Bolger, director for the N.J. Department of Education Office of Charter Schools, Bruce Whitaker, president of the RBCS Board of Trustees, and N.J. Commissioner of Education Christopher Cerf joined RBCS Principal Meredith Pennotti and Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna at the May 26 reception. RED BANK — Red Bank Charter School hosted an evening…

  • GPS can’t help an ambulance if it has no volunteers

    The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) redesign bill S818/A2095, passed by the General Assembly and now being considered in the Senate, is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The bill has several flaws and vague language. For example, its proponents claim the changes the bill would bring to New Jersey’s EMS system would cost less than $2…

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