• Rachel Alexandra thrills Monmouth Park fans

    Wins stakes race; Izod Haskell Invitational is Sunday Rachel Alexandra and Monmouth Park go well together. The 2009 Horse of the Year was back in Oceanport on Saturday and did not disappoint the nearly 13,000 fans who came to see her race. Rachel Alexandra dominated her rivals in winning the $400,000 Lady’s Secret Stakes in…

  • More information needed on qualifications for NPS liaison

    After reading the recent press release issued by Congressmen Frank Pallone and Rush Holt where they requested that a liaison individual be appointed by the National Park Service director, Jon Jarvis, as the “go to” person for entities interested in the rehabilitation and subsequent use of historic Fort Hancock buildings at Sandy Hook, I experienced…

  • Citizens group lists principles for good gov.

    Long Branch Citizens for Good Government (LBCGG) was founded in 2008 to promote the principles of transparency and accountability in governance. Since then it has become increasingly self-evident that good government can only be sustained by strong commitment, on the part of government officials, to the vigorous application of those principles. To that end, we…

  • Don’t be discouraged by small steps taken forward

    CODA GREG BEAN Last week, as a record heat wave scalded New Jersey and most of the nation, I sat on the back deck drinking sun tea in tall glasses with lots of ice and reading Harper Lee’s classic American novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” July was the 50th anniversary of the publication of the…

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    Jody Joseph rocks Long Branch’s Pier Village with classics by Stevie Nicks and Janis Joplin on July 22. MIKE JAGENDORF

  • Foundation launched to benefit animal rescue groups

    SHREWSBURY — On June 18, 150 guests celebrated the 40th anniversary of Purr’n Pooch, a pet resort owned and operated by the Palazzo family with locations in Tinton Falls and Wall. At the celebration, held at the Shadowbrook in Shrewsbury, daughters Betsy Palazzo and Koren Spadavecchia announced the launch of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Purr’n Pooch…

  • Fifth annual Kortney’s Challenge to be held Aug. 29

    Kortney Rose OCEANPORT — The Kortney Rose Foundation (KRF) will host the fifth annual Kortney’s Challenge Two-Mile Fun Walk/Run on Sunday, Aug. 29, at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport. Kortney Rose Gillette was a vivacious 9-year-old girl who attended Wolf Hill School in Oceanport. She was diagnosed with a terminal brainstem glioma and died on…

  • Young women listen to words of encouragement

    Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno speaks at leadership institute in Freehold BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer She has locked up criminals, been Monmouth County’s first female sheriff and is New Jersey’s first lieutenant governor. She is also a law professor, a wife and the mother of three boys — all in all, a most impressive…

  • Pier revue

    B. Jay Willis, of the Jody Joseph Band, electrifies the Pier Village pavilion with a guitar solo at a July 22 concert in Long Branch. MIKE JAGENDORF

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