• Crackdown on impaired drivers

    LONG BRANCH — The Police Department announced that it has begun a crackdown on drunken drivers during the annual year-end holiday season. The “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” 2009 year-end statewide crackdown will run through Jan. 3. The LBPD will conduct saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints, looking for motoristswhomay be driving while intoxicated. As a…

  • Police seek information on shooting of L.B. man

    LONG BRANCH — Detectives from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the Long Branch Police Department are conducting a cooperative investigation into the circumstances surrounding a fatal shooting in the city. On Nov. 29 at approximately 11:14 p.m., the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office’s Emergency Communications Center received multiple 911 calls reporting that a shooting had…

  • Dec. 13 all-ages show at Pony will benefit Samaritan Center

    Greater Media wants to fuel the holiday spirit by providing good music and a way to help the hungry at Greater Media’s Good Samaritan Holiday Bash to be held Dec. 13 at the Stone Pony, 913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park. Proceeds and nonperishable food donations will benefit the Samaritan Center, a food pantry headquartered in…

  • NOTESAround Town

    Monmouth University, West Long Branch, will present Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” 8 p.m. Dec. 11, and 2 p.m. Dec. 12 and 13 at its Pollak Theatre. The production features true-to-form costumes and wigs from 1843, and music of England of the time period. Tickets are $28, and $15 for children and students. For tickets…

  • Local church opens doors to those in need at Christmas

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — A city church will once again be helping to ease the burdens of those who are struggling and in need this holiday season. St. James Church, 300 Broadway, is hosting its seventh annual Christmas Dinner from 4-7 p.m. on Christmas Day. “The dinner is open to everyone,…

  • Breakfast with Santa

    Above: Carol Alto takes a photo of Jean and Dale Alto, of Ocean, at the Oakhurst Fire Company and Ladies Auxiliary Breakfast with Santa. Right: Dyllan Manning, of Ocean, visits with Santa. PHOTOS BY FRANK GALIPO

  • VNA extends community-based services to North Jersey

    Central Jersey VNA partners with Newark nonprofit BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer Judith Stanley Coleman, chairwoman of the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey, and VNACJ Chief Operating Officer Ashley Wharton flank Monsignor William J. Linder, founder and CEO of the New Community Corp., and Donnett Brown, executive director of Essex Valley VNA. RED BANK…

  • L.B. council approves self-assessment report

    BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — The city moved a step closer to achieving urban center designation from the state last week by approving a self-assessment report required to qualify the city to move up a level in the state planning process. After hearing a presentation by zoning officer Michelle Bernich, the council…

  • Council votes down Husky Brook project

    Opponents cite wetlands, finances; mayor says politics killed park BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer Mayor Tarantolo EATONTOWN — After months of heated debate, the Borough Council voted last week to cancel the controversial Husky Brook Park project. The move came during the council’s Dec. 3 meeting, at which members voted 4- 2 to terminate the…

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