• Bring it on! 23rd annual Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival

    Memorial Day has come and gone, and now it’s time for the Jersey Shore’s first major festival: the Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival. Houston Person This annual extravaganza, produced by the Jersey Shore Jazz and Blues Foundation, will take place this weekend, June 5-7, in scenic Marine Park by the gentle Navesink River. The…

  • Lakehurst to Red Bank is panel’s rail selection

    Efforts continue to institute passenger train service for inland Monmouth, Ocean BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Passenger train service could come to inland Monmouth and Ocean counties if NJ Transit administrators follow through on the recommendation of a working group of stakeholders. According to a May 27 press release from NJ Transit, members of a…

  • Fiber Art X 7

    ‘Fiber Form & Function III,” an exhibit of works by a group of seven fiber artists who call themselves Fiber Art X 7, opens today at the Middletown Library, where it will run through June 26. “Tin Roof” by Sandra Rinehimer Roberts The fiber artists are Pam Burke, Theresa Caracappa, Beverly Hertler, Nancy McCarron Lubisco,…

  • Camp Happiness Summer Auto Meet for the Blind

    The Middletown Lions Club and the New Jersey Blind Citizens Association (NJBCA) will host the fourth annual Camp Happiness Summer Auto Meet for the Blind on Sunday, June 28, from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Dearborn Market, 2170 Route 35 in Holmdel. Camp Happiness, established in 1910 and located in the Leonardo section of Middletown…

  • Library ‘surplus’ funds trickle in

    $257K in funds returned to Matawan and Aberdeen BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer MATAWAN — The Borough Council recently passed a resolution accepting the return of unused library funds, with the hope of defraying rising budgetary costs in the small municipality. “[I]n response to the requests by the municipalities, [the board of trustees for…

  • Group takes lead in green recycling

    BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer Above: Joyce Quarels of Long Branch and Luis Pulido of Belmar talk during the Monmouth County for Change’s Green Electronic Recycling Event, a countywide effort to educate and encourage residents to recycle their electronics, held at the Airport Plaza Shopping Center, Hazlet, on May 30. Right: Some old electronic devices…

  • A little building with a big following

    Members seek to recover some of senior center’s lost history BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer One hundred years later, and the building once known as the “little East Keyport School” is still bringing people together to learn and thrive. Hazel Feick (far left) participates in a line dance class at the Keyport Senior Center.…

  • Middletown mulls impact of rail link

    Local towns oppose Red Bank junction BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer Reports that a controversial rail line link would run through Red Bank has Middletown officials discussing what the consequences may be one train stop farther along the North Jersey Coast Line. “It certainly has an effect on Middletown with an extra 40 trains a…

  • Township would add three turf fields

    $2.5M funding in place to convert three fields BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer Middletown Township is proposing installing synthetic turf on three athletic fields, which would become multiuse fields available to community recreational programs. The township has approached the Middletown Board of Education about working together on the synthetic turf fields, which would be installed…

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