• Golf pro Gaffney qualifies for PGA Championship

    Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., is one of the nation’s most revered courses. It will be hosting the 91st PGA Championship on Aug. 13-16, and Monmouth Beach’s Brian Gaffney, the head professional at Rumson Country Club, will be there competing against the best professional golfers in the world. Gaffney, 38, qualified for the…

  • Health coverage needed for residents age 50-64

    Our leaders are tackling health care reform for America in earnest and there are many points to consider. One of them should be expanding health care coverage for boomers. Fifty- to 64-year-olds need to be part of the reform equation. The numbers tell the story. According to AARP, nearly one in five Americans, 63 million…

  • Swimming

    CHRIS KELLY staff Above: Kiera Brown, Long Branch, swims the butterfly during the Laps4Lilly swimathon held at Seashore Day Camp in Long Branch on July 26. Below: Brenna Strolla, Neptune, swims the freestyle during the swimathon, which raised funds for the Love4Lilly Foundation which helps children being treated for cancer.

  • Guadagno brings gravitas to candidate’s ticket

    In choosing Kim Guadagno as his running mate, Chris Christie has starkly shown why he is doubly a winner over Jon Corzine. Not only did Christie manage the process like a chief executive should, Guadagno is a solid addition to the ticket who will trail blaze an important and positive role as New Jersey’s first…

  • Rachel Alexandra, Summer Bird top loaded Haskell field

    BY DOUG McKENZIE Staff Writer Close to 50,000 racing fans are expected to converge on Monmouth Park at Oceanport this Sunday for the richest horse racing invitational in North America. And this year, it’s even richer. The 42nd running of the Haskell Invitational will include a record purse of $1,250,000 this year after the track…

  • ‘Edge of the Day: Watercolors’

    An exhibition of color-saturated watercolor paintings by internationally known artist Graham Nickson is at the Main Gallery at the Monmouth Museum. “Red Uluru with Storm Clouds and Rain” “Edge of the Day: Watercolors” will run through Aug. 30 at the museum, located on the campus of Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. Over the past decade,…

  • Superintendent not versed in fort procurement

    Guest Column • Peter P. O’Such Jr. The Fort Hancock procurement described by Barry T. Sullivan, general superintendent of the Gateway National Recreation Area, addressed in his letter to local newspapers is not the Fort Hancock procurement that I have experienced personally for eight years. But, first things first: The document signed on July 9,…

  • Gardineer honored as CFO of Year

    American Red Cross exec noted for business savvy BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Bayard Gardineer III UPPER FREEHOLD — Six weeks ago, Bayard Gardineer III was the first on the scene of a horrific car crash on Route 524, just yards from his house in Stone Tavern Estates. He made the first 911 call when…

  • Farmers protest possible closing of agriculture offices in Freehold

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Farmers from all over the county attended the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders workshop meeting July 23 to protest the proposed lease termination of a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency office and Natural Resource Conservation Service (NCRS) office from the county-owned Agriculture Building on Kozloski…

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