• April: Spring is in the air

    GREEN SCENE GOTTI KELLEY “The greatest gift of the garden is therestoration of the five senses. ”— Hanna Rion G et more from your garden this year! It’s always exciting to get those first seeds safely tucked into the ground. But you can get much more out of your space by using innovative techniques. …

  • ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ Lunch Break

    RED BANK — In May, participating restaurants in Little Silver and Rumson will be joining together with residents for a day to help Lunch Break fight hunger. Supporters of Lunch Break, Red Bank soup kitchen, food pantry and more, can dine in or take out from their favorite local establishments with a portion of the…

  • RBR to induct six into Alumni Hall of Fame

    LITTLE SILVER — On Friday, April 29, six distinguished alumni will be inducted into the Red Bank Regional (RBR) High School Hall of Fame, spanning graduation years from 1963 through 1987. The public is invited to the special induction ceremony, which will take place in the RBR theater at 10 a.m. This year’s distinguished alumni…

  • Fair Haven Council mulls changes to tree ordinance

    BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent FAIR HAVEN — Councilman Robert Marchese would like to change the borough’s tree preservation ordinance as quickly as possible. But after a discussion of his proposal for a revision of the ordinance at the Borough Council’s April 11 meeting, Marchese said he would wait until the first meeting in May to…

  • Unite for clean beaches on April 30

    Clean Ocean Action (COA) invites residents and organizations to participate in the 26th annual Spring Beach Sweeps on Saturday, April 30, at 69 sites along the New Jersey coast. The Beach Sweeps begin at 9 a.m. and end at 12:30 p.m., rain or shine. Clean Ocean Action Beach Sweeps is one of the longest-running cleanup…

  • Audit findings

    Asummary of findings and recommendations in the audit of the Brookdale President’s Office compensation and expenses includes:  Travel request forms and monthly expense forms were not completed by Burnham.  Adequate automobile logs and personal expenses on college-issued credit cards were not tracked.  Burnham charged for personal expenses during a medical leave of…

  • Brookdale trustees OK legal action against Burnham

    College CFO also faulted, placed on unpaid leave BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer A fter reviewing the audit of the president’s office, the Brookdale Community College board of trustees approved legal action against former president Peter Burnham to recover monies due to the college, at itsApril 14 meeting on the Lincroft campus. The charges against…

  • Resident seeks legislators’ support for health care

    Many struggling women with no availability of health insurance or medical care of any kind are dependent on our legislators to stand up for women’s health and speak eloquently on their behalf. We are depending on them. Charlotte KrumanRumson

  • Memo to Bangladesh: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

    GUEST COLUMN Eliot Daley A sk any American what they know about Bangladesh, and you’re likely to hear one of two things: 1) It’s a pitifully backward place cursed with floods, droughts, overpopulation and insuperable poverty; and/or 2) It’s the very fortunate place where social innovation supported by donors, the government and the poor themselves…

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