• Fresh Air Fund seeks host families

    BY REBECCAMORTON Staff Writer A program that brings New York City children to the suburban splendor of New Jersey for a week of summer fun is seeking new host families for 2011. The Fresh Air Fund has been giving inner-city children the joy of a summer vacation with volunteer host families and at Fresh Air…

  • Library sponsoring new logo contest

    Calling all young artists: the Monmouth County Library System is seeking a new logo, and a contest to find the best logo is now under way. The aim is to emphasize the added dimension of the library’s services that are part of the growing dynamic of the Monmouth County Library. “Not only is the library…

  • June: Make your mark in the garden

    GREEN SCENE GOTTI KELLEY W “Don’t wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees.” Anne Rover With the rising temps, our resident chipmunks — rats with racing stripes, as I call them — make their daily appearance. I watched one of them methodically filling his cheeks to the bursting…

  • Community gardeners look forward to bountiful season

    Sales from garden fund Crawford House restoration BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer Volunteers work on their plot last summer at the Tinton Falls Community Garden located at the Historic Crawford House in Tinton Falls. TINTON FALLS —Stakeholders are hoping to build on the success of the borough’s community garden, which last year included a weekly farm…

  • Aslan’s ‘Island Nights’ fundraiser July 23

    RED BANK — Aslan Youth Ministries, a nonprofit that provides leadership programs for disadvantaged youths in Asbury Park, Long Branch and Red Bank, will host its largest fundraiser of the year 5:30-11 p.m. July 23. Aslan’s 12th annual “Island Nights,” to be held at 41 Breezy Point Road in Little Silver, will feature Caribbean cuisine,…

  • Rowing on the river

    From top: Allison Lehman, Ocean Township, gets a rowing lesson from instructor Eamon Sweeny during Learn-to-Row Day on the Navesink River in Red Bank on June 12. A group of youths enjoy the sport of rowing during the event, which was sponsored by Red Bankbased Navesink River Rowing, whose mission is to educate the public…

  • Before work begins, NPS owes the public some answers

    It was reported in The Hub that the Natinal Park Service’s Peter McCarthy, Sandy Hook Unit manager, stated to those attending the NPS-sponsored tour of Fort Hancock buildings that the first building to next be rehabilitated would be the Officers’ Club, which may be the worst-deteriorated of the fort buildings! What needs to be disclosed…

  • The trouble with trillions, and it’s not science fiction

    CODA GREG BEAN I f you’ve been listening to the news lately, you know there’s a huge debate in Washington over raising the national debt limit. Currently, our national debt stands at about $14.3 trillion, give or take a few billion, and President Obama’s administration and the Democrats in Congress want to raise the debt…

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