• Health care reform will preserve choices

    As health care continues to be one of the most-talkedabout issues today, I hope that consumers are not being misled by some of the myths that have been circulating. Like the myth that health care reform means a government takeover — here are the facts: Health care reform means guaranteeing all Americans a choice of…

  • Cheerleaders represented O.B. with class

    The Old Bridge Knights Midget Cheerleaders placed fifth at the national Pop Warner championship competition in Disney World, Orlando, Fla., earlier this month. The competition was amazing. The girls competed against 16 teams, the best in the country, and came home with a huge trophy to congratulate their hard work. What a spectacular ending to…

  • New zero-tolerance policy may change sports world

    Coda • GREG BEAN Isee this on television from time to time, and I think it’s a good idea. So here it is: Warning! Part of this column deals with adult subject matter— and that subject matter is sex. When I was growing up, we didn’t have any professional sports teams in our neck of…

  • First snow

    Top: Michael and Anthony DeVitto, Little Silver, have fun sledding down Wolf Hill in Oceanport on Dec. 20. Above: Patrice Habermann, West Long Branch, walks up the hill to enjoy sledding on the snow deposited by a weekend storm. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff

  • NOTESAround Town

    U.S. Marines accepted a donation for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots program from students in Ranney School’s music honor society. The students delivered more than 80 toys to the U.S. Marine Corps program office in Lincroft. As part of their first major community service project for the school year, members of Jr.…

  • Red Bank Library lists January programs

    RED BANK — Artists seeking inspiration, motivation, and a special time to devote to their work can now attend an informal gathering once a month at the Red Bank Public Library Eisner Memorial Library. The Artists Workshop will take place 7- 8:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month, starting Jan. 7, in the…

  • Hotel perks enhance patients’ hospital stay

    Riverview offers concierge service for patients BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer Nicole Curtis is the on-site Concierge Care service professional at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank. RED BANK — Riverview Medical Center officially launched a new personal concierge service that provides patients with hotel perks during hospital stays. In an interview on Dec. 16,…

  • Advocates expect vets clinic to remain at fort

    Legislators say VA is also looking at other sites BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN — Local officials are committed to seeing that the Patterson Army Health Clinic (PAHC) continues operating at Fort Monmouth after the fort closes its doors in 2011. Monmouth County Freeholder Lillian Burry and Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority (FMERPA)…

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