• Monmouth Regional district reworks budget

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer TINTON FALLS — A failed budget has left Monmouth Regional School District officials scrambling for a plan. District Business Administrator Maria Parry said last week she is revisiting the defeated budget plan after voters in Tinton Falls, Eatontown and Shrewsbury Township shot down the $25.6 million budget during the April…

  • Suit challenges blight label in Beachfront So.

    Mayoral candidate wants designation lifted BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Robert Krebs LONG BRANCH — Beachfront South resident Robert G. Krebs has filed a lawsuit challenging the city’s blight designation of his Ocean Avenue home. Krebs, who is challenging incumbent Mayor Adam Schneider for the mayor’s office, confirmed this week that the suit was filed…

  • High-end condos approved for BFS

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Project Manager Peggy Steinhauser points out design features of a luxury condominium project approved for the Beachfront South redevelopment zone. LONG BRANCH — Both the CityCouncil and the Planning Board have signed off on a proposed 11-unit luxury condominium development along the Long Branch oceanfront. The council, which is the…

  • Eight sites added to Weekend in Old Monmouth

    40 historic Monmouth sites to be open for visits on May 1 and May 2 The 18th-century Georgianstyle Burrowes Mansion in the heart of downtown Matawan will be one of the stops on the county’s third annual “Weekend in Old Monmouth,” a two-day historic-sites tour on Saturday, May 1, and from noon to 5 p.m.…

  • Gov.’s Earth Day pledge: No LNG, offshore drilling

    Christie’s stance applauded by environmental advocates BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer Gov. Chris Christie marked Earth Day by reaffirming his administration’s commitment to environmental protections. At the oceanfront in Sea Bright on April 22, the governor was met with applause and even drew a standing ovation as he articulated his opposition to liquefied natural gas…

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    A.J. Tracey and Dylan Kayzar, Long Branch, are among the hundreds of volunteers clearing debris from local beaches during the statewide Clean Ocean Action Spring Beach Sweeps April 24.

  • Cuts in program may lead to some very difficult decisions

    As we are all aware, the New Jersey fiscal budget has been at a deficit for many years and yes it needs to be fixed, but not at the expense of the disabled and elderly and the people who care for them. Gov. Chris Christie has proposed a budget cut to the Personal Care Assistance…

  • Don’t increase co-pay burden on low-income seniors

    There is no good news in the New Jersey state budget for those on low or fixed incomes. The current budget proposal includes increasing the brandname drug co-pays from $7 to $15 for the state’s PAAD [Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled] beneficiaries. Let’s remember, individuals participate in PAAD because they meet certain income…

  • Resident: Schneider administration has cost city’s taxpayers

    The recently approved condominium complex to be developed in Beachfront South, Long Branch, will sit on property next door to me. The dark back-story of this project reveals the seamy, destructive policies of the Schneider administration over the past decade. Previous owners bought the property intending to renovate the then-existing 3½-story Victorian-style house as a…

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