• Practical advice for grads: once more into the breach

    CODA GREG BEAN As happens every year at this time, we’ve heard a lot of graduation addresses filled with uplifting exhortations that basically come down to “be the best that you can be.” I think First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech to graduating high school students in Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood was the most moving of…

  • Free resources available for moms with the ‘baby blues’

    Summertime is becoming an increasingly popular time to welcome a new child. Among the babies born in the United States every year, 35 percent are born from the beginning of June through the end of September, according to the N.J. Department of Health and Senior Services. But statistics show that for every 8 in 10…

  • VNACJ honors Social Worker of the Year

    Debra Giordano, VNA of Central Jersey Community Health Center board chair, (l) and Gary Linington, executive director, VNACJ CHC, congratulate Betsey Pepperman (center), named VNACJ Social Worker of the Year. RED BANK — Betsey Pepperman, of Long Branch, has been named 2010 Social Worker of the Year by the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey…

  • Flag Day service

    U.S. Marine Pvt. Peter F. Banach Jr. assists in raising the U.S. and POW flags during the Long Branch Elks Lodge No. 742 Flag Day services on June 13. Also participating in the ceremony was the Long Branch VFW Honor Guard, along with Boy Scout Troop 148, and officers and members of the lodge. Banach,…

  • Cruise to the Jersey Shore

    Jerry Ricciardelli looks through the window of his 1932 Ford at the 16th Annual Cruise to the Jersey Shore Car Show and Oldies Concert presented by the city of Long Branch at the Oceanfront Promenade on June 20. LAUREN CASSELBERRY

  • Practitioners trained in needs of returning vets

    BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Henry Acosta (l-r), from the Governor’s Council on Mental Health, stands with Robin Mama, dean of the School of Social Work at Monmouth University, and Robert Lowry, Carolyn Bradley, and Ellen Foley, members of the school’s Coming Home Project, after they were presented with the N.J. Governor’s Council Ambassador Award…

  • Area youth studying oil spill recovery in Alaska

    Local sites part of Hands Across the Sand event June 26 protesting offshore drilling BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Jake Calvitti has been lobbying against drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska since the age of 10. After five years of working with the Alaska Wilderness League, the now 15-year-old freshman…

  • Council authorizes plan to remediate wetlands at park

    Birdsall will create plan for Husky Brook Park site work BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The Borough Council authorized a remediation plan for the disturbed wetlands area at the proposed Husky Brook Park and referred plans for the park back to the Recreation Committee at the June 9 workshop meeting. The council gave…

  • Free conversational English classes in Long Branch

    LONG BRANCH — Learn to speak English with confidence by registering for the free conversational English classes offered by Literacy Volunteers of Monmouth County, starting Saturday, June 26, at Brookdale Community College’s Higher Education Center, 213 Broadway, Room119, in Long Branch. Adults-only classes will be held each Saturday morning from 10 a.m. until noon June…

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