• Call her anything but don’t call her ma’am

    CODA GREG BEAN Odds and ends as I pack for the Labor Day weekend. Should we go with flipflops and board shorts, or the rubber Wellies, raincoat and water wings? It’s unfortunate that all the rain expected as I write this will come too late to save my grass and all my expensive decorative plants,…

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    Tommy Lyons, of Rumson, makes his way into the surf off the beach in Sea Bright on Sept. 1. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • ‘Kittenpalooza’ offers half-price adoptions

    Sarge With more 300 felines available, the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MCSPCA) hopes to find good homes for most of these cats and kittens through “Kittenpalooza,” a monthlong adoption project. Once again, summer ends with an overpopulation of cats and kittens, said Francesca Alexander, MCSPCA community cat coordinator. Anyone…

  • L.B. native set to begin filming mob caper

    Several big names already signed on for ‘Numba One’ BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer With an arsenal of big names already signed on, former Long Branch resident Michael Attardi is hoping to secure a few more before his new movie, “Numba One,” starts filming in October. Michael Attardi (l) and Federico Castelluccio at a recent…

  • Alzheimer’s is topic of science lecture

    TINTON FALLS — The 2010 Norman J Field Lecture in Science, “Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease by 2020?,” will be presented by Dr. Zaven S. Khachaturian Thursday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. The lecture will take place at the Performing Arts Center Auditorium of Monmouth Regional High School, 1 Norman J Field Way in Tinton Falls. An…

  • Marine Task Force to improve aquatic response time

    BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Members of local fire departments are collaborating to form a Marine Task Force to improve response to emergencies. HIGHLANDS — The Highlands, Sea Bright, Middletown and Atlantic Highlands fire departments are working to improve the area’s aquatic emergency response by forming Monmouth County’s first Marine Task Force. “The goal is…

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    Top to bottom: Junior Matheo (l-r) and Jayshon Rodgers, both of Long Branch, jam on guitars during a Rock Star Band Tournament held at the Long Branch Free Public Library on Broadway on Sept. 2. Teen Services Librarian Nekesha Mitchell gives Rodgers pointers during the tournament, which featured the music of Green Day. Isiha Matheo,…

  • Slocum family readies for annual reunion

    Relatives from far and wide will meet Oct. 10 in Long Branch BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Bob Waitt Sr. (l-r), Bob Waitt Jr., Joann Slocum Mazzucca and Arthur T. Green II at a presentation in March on the murder of Abigail Slocum in 1863 and the trial and hanging of her husband, Peter, who is…

  • And they’re off! Steeplechase returns on Sept. 25

    OCEANPORT — A unique day of racing is set for Sept. 25 at Monmouth Park with the return of the Monmouth Park-Meridian Health Steeplechase, the only steeplechase event in the region. Otherwise known as jump racing, steeplechase racing features a series of jumps and obstacles, and is most often held at official race meetings held…

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