• Monmouth Festival of Arts takes place April 9-13

    Deborah Deforge wooden jewelry box, “Ocean One” More than 215 artists from throughout the Northeast will display their art in a variety of mediums, including jewelry, ceramics, sculpture, oils, watercolor, pastels, mixed media and fine crafts at the 41st Monmouth Festival of theArts (MFA), which will take place from Saturday, April 9, through Wednesday, April…

  • Sea Girt offers historic lore, ocean panorama

    BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Sea Girt Lighthouse FollowWreck Pond bridge into the beautiful and historic borough of Sea Girt. This one-square-mile town includes the area between Stockton Lake and Wreck Pond. Though modest in size, the quaint beach town incorporated in 1917 is packed with history, dining and 1.75 miles of beach. Travel down Ocean Avenue…

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    St. Jerome School, West Long Branch, earned high marks at the Pre-High School Academic Tournament held earlier this month at the Marine Academy of Science and Technology on Sandy Hook. With a total of 23 teams competing, the St. Jerome Grade 8 Team A placed third in the competition, placing them in the 91st percentile…

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    The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation (NJVVMF) will host a free seminar on the V.A. health care system 10 a.m. April 2 at the Vietnam Era Museum & Educational Center, adjacent to the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, located off the Garden State Parkway at exit 116. Members of the V.A. Community Outreach Team…

  • ‘Face of community’ retires from Shrewsbury post

    Eatontown man wraps up career of almost four decades BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Frank Clark stands in front of a GIS map of Shrewsbury he created during his nearly 40-year career with the borough’s Department of Public Works. ANDREW DAVISON SHREWSBURY — Longtime employee Frank Clark is retiring from his position as foreman of…

  • Hydrofracking subject of Brookdale panel

    MIDDLETOWN — Brookdale Community College will host an expert panel discussion on the risk of hydrofracking, the controversial procedure that opponents claim is resulting in dangerously contaminated drinking water. The free event will take place Wednesday, April 6, at 7:15 p.m. in the Warner Student Life Center, Twin Lights rooms I and II. Parking is…

  • Rose Annmarie Rusch

    Miss Rusch, 10, a lifelong resident of Eatontown, died March 23, 2011, at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She was a fifth-grade student at St. James Elementary School in Red Bank and a member of the JV Cheerleading Team. Miss Rusch loved her family, friends, cheerleading, dance, music and the theatre. She was a communicant…

  • Ocean Twp. mulls red-light cameras on Rte. 35

    Cameras expected to generate fines at three intersections BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Drivers, take note: the Township Council is expected to approve a resolution making it the first municipality in Monmouth County to install red-light cameras at several intersections. Initially slated for approval at the council’s March 21 meeting, the measure…

  • Hospice volunteers sought to help others

    VITAS Innovative Hospice Care of NewJersey Shore, Eatontown, is searching for volunteers in Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties. Volunteers give their time to terminally ill patients and their caregivers during a critical time. In orientation classes, they are trained in listening skills, family dynamics and the right words to say to patients and their loved…

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