• Ideal Beach and Freneau receive Monmouth County grants

    Funding promotes recreation, open space preservation BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer The municipalities of Aberdeen, Middletown and Red Bank received an early Christmas present from Monmouth County on Dec. 21. The three towns received funding for recreation, preservation and parkland improvements under the county’s 2010 Municipal Open Space Grant Program, an annual $2.5 million initiative…

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    Stephen Drescher, 2, takes a gander at the Jack Fuller model railroad display, “Jack’s Tracks,” during the “Go Green for the Holidays” exhibition at the Monmouth Museum in the Lincroft section of Middletown on Dec. 23. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • ‘Days off From School’ at Mid’twn Arts Center

    The Middletown Arts Center will offer “Days off From School” programs for elementary age children on Dec. 27, 28, 29 and 30. Half- and full-day programs are available, featuring fun with the Doodle Dude, dancing and other art enrichment experiences. The half-day program is $20 for members, $25 for nonmembers per day, and the full-day…

  • Interactive mystery slated at Kateri Cntr.

    Kateri Environmental Center, located in the Wickatunk section of Marlboro, will present an adventure for children ages 7 and up on Feb. 19. For one night only, Collier School’s Smith Hall will be transformed into “Frogwarts,” a school for young wizards. Students will wander the halls of the school searching for clues to help outsmart…

  • 16th annual Greenway Walk to be held Jan. 1

    Ring in the New Year with a leisurely walk through the Ramanessin Brook ConservationArea (formerly the Chase tract), at the 16th annual New Year’s Day Greenway Walk in Holmdel, led by Holmdel Township Committeeman Larry Fink, on Jan. 1 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Participants will meet at Holmdel Park, 44 Longstreet Road, at…

  • Hazlet resident is Volunteer of the Year

    RED BANK — Marie Hanna, of Hazlet, a volunteer with the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey Hospice Program (VNACJ), was named Volunteer of the Year by the Monmouth Park Charity Ball Committee. Hanna has been with the VNACJ for the last seven years, working with terminally ill patients as well as working to bring…

  • Dery Bennett New Year’s Day Beach Walk

    On Jan. 1, the American Littoral Society will hold its annual New Year’s Day Beach Walk to the tip of Sandy Hook at 11 a.m. This year, the walk will launch the coastal conservation nonprofit’s 50th anniversary. The walk was inaugurated in the 1970s by the society’s long-time leader, Dery Bennett, so that people could…

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    This year’s recipient of the St. Benedict School PTA’s Advent Project is the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry in Holmdel. On Dec. 23 the children of St. Benedict School presented almost $8,000 in cash to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, along with another $12,000 in food and toy donations. Throughout Advent, the children…

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