• Jill Baker Gower: metal sculpture

    The Monmouth Museum is continuing its New Jersey Emerging Artists Series in the Nilson Gallery with an exhibition of metal sculpture by artist Jill Baker Gower. “Reflection #1” The exhibition runs through April 25 at the museum, located on the campus of Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. Gower creates wearable objects, sculpture and jewelry out…

  • NOTES Around Town

    Performance With Passion Players’ Children’s Entertainment Series will hold auditions April 3 for its two May productions at the Italian American Memorial Association, 195 West End Ave., Long Branch. Auditions for ages 6-12 will be held 3-5 p.m. for the nonmusical “Curtain Going Up,” and 5-7 p.m. for ages 12 and up for the musical…

  • Pain & Suffering tourney raises $7K

    The seventh annual Pain & Suffering Tournament raised nearly $7,000 for the Jewish Community Center’s Kosher Meals on Wheels program, which provides nutritious meals to hundreds of homebound senior citizens in Monmouth County. Twenty male athletes between the ages of 38 and 54 divided into four teams and competed in round-robin matches in volleyball, basketball…

  • Lots to celebrate at county parks in April

    Celebrate April, National County GovernmentMonth, with the best of what Monmouth County’s government has to offer: its accredited park system. Many free events will be offered, including mill demonstrations at Historic Walnford in Upper Freehold Township, the Spring Egg-Stravaganza on April 10-11 at the Manasquan Reservoir Environmental Center in Howell, and much more. The park…

  • For the Record

    Donald Riley is running as an independent candidate for Long Branch City Council in the May 11 municipal election. A story in the March 25 issue incorrectly reported that Riley is running on a ticket with mayoral candidate Robert Krebs.

  • Global Understanding focus at Monmouth U. April 5-8

    WEST LONG BRANCH — The Monmouth University Institute for Global Understanding will host the ninth annual Global Understanding Convention April 5- 8. The campus-wide interdisciplinary convention is free and open to the public. This year’s convention, “Change and Stability in Global Environments,” will focus on the multiple environments such as economic, social, cultural, philosophical, biological,…

  • Bill on gov.’s desk would limit zoning changes

    Builders group supports change; League of Municipalities opposes it BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer EATONTOWN — Mayor Gerald J. Tarantolo and the Eatontown Borough Council approved a resolution opposing S- 82/A-437, a bill that would eliminate the “time of decision rule,” at the council meeting on March 24. The council also sent a letter to…

  • L.B. officials spar over court filings

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer The political season in Long Branch has barely begun, but things are heating up with city officials and a mayoral candidate trading accusations of wrongdoing. At the March 23 City Council meeting, Peter DeLisa, campaign manager for Councilman and mayoral candidate Brian Unger, asked Mayor Adam Schneider and each council…

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