• Clean energy program cuts bad for environment, economy

    I n advance of his annual budget address, Gov. Chris Christie announced that he hoped to reduce taxes while still working to balance the state’s budget. With reduced tax revenue coming in to the state, we are concerned that important clean energy programs will once again be in the crosshairs this year. Last year, the…

  • Time for pension reform is now

    There is not a caring resident in New Jersey who isn’t aware that one of the biggest threats to our state’s fiscal health is the mess that has become our pension system. For more than a decade our state’s leaders — governors and complicit legislative leaders — have simultaneously increased promised benefits (to buy the…

  • Oceanport and WLB agree to share dispatch services

    Boros expect to save combined $1.3M over five years BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer OCEANPORT — The Borough Council has entered into a shared services agreement with West Long Branch that the two municipalities hope will save them a combined $1.3 million over the next five years. Approved by the West Long Branch Borough Council…

  • Library bulkhead could be replaced by natural shoreline

    BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Library trustees are considering options for replacing the bulkhead at the rear of the Red Bank Public Library property, which is deteriorated. RED BANK – The riverside Red Bank Public Library’s deteriorating wooden bulkhead, on West Front Street, may be transformed into shallow water habitat. In a presentation given at…

  • Michael’s Feat supports ill newborns and families

    Michael Gerard Puharic Memorial Fund has raised $1M BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Adam Puharic and Janet Emma admire a mural at the dedication of the Michael‘s Feat Family Resource Room at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Monmouth in May 2007. FILE PHOTO When Dana and Adam Puharic lost their newborn son Michael within…

  • State issues Request for Proposals for Monmouth Park

    Winning applicant will land five-year lease of racetrack BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer Monmouth Park Local officials are praising the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) for issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the lease of Monmouth Park in Oceanport. Issued on March 3 and due by March 31, the RFP offers qualified…

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    Harpist Marjorie Mollenauer performs at the Eastern Branch Library, Shrewsbury, March 4 in a concert that featured Irish favorites and a discussion of the history of the harp. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Lapidus playing role for Scarlet Knights

    Marlboro H.S. graduate earns place on women’s hoop squad at state university BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Every time she suits up for the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, it is a reality check for Brittany Lapidus. “When I walk out onto the RAC (Rutgers Athletic Center) court, I look up at the Final Four…

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