• Colts get their man in UConn’s Donnie Brown

    RBC product expected to make instant impact BY DOUG McKENZIE Staff Writer There was a common perception about the University of Connecticut’s DonaldBrown heading into Saturday’s National Football League Draft. Scouts, general managers and coaches all agreed, if Brown’s dream of becoming a standout NFL player were to fall short, it would not be due…

  • SJV lacrosse comes up short

    PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR St. John Vianney High School’s Kevin Mercurio (center) reaches for the lacrosse stick during the first quarter of a game against Red Bank Regional High School on April 23 at RBR. Right: SJV’s Joey Bergin works to control the ball. Red Bank won the match, 16-10.

  • New Holmdel board member thanks supporters

    I would like to say thank you to you who believe in me and voted for me to be a member of the Holmdel Board Education on April 21, and I would like to express my sincere appreciation to my campaign team: campaign manager Dr. Jun-Min Liu, advisers Dr. Elisa Caridi, Dr. Ray Tai and…

  • NPS should be aware that informed public is watching

    One day before the National Park Service (NPS)-imposed 90-day deadline period was to expire, Sandy Hook Partners (SHP) submitted data in an attempt to satisfy the NPS’s mandatory requirement for possessing financial capacity/funding for its proposal to rehabilitate Fort Hancock buildings. It should be noted that proof of funding was required by the NPS request…

  • Mayor’s green initiative paying off in a big way

    It must be very difficult being a campaign worker for the Democrats in New Jersey these days, what with the state dead last in the country in everything except taxes. There, we are number one across the board. That frustration often leaves you with no choice but to attack the accomplishments of those in the…

  • ‘Rounding’ doesn’t simplify things for reader

    I hope you all remember your old high school education. You’re in math class, patiently waiting for your test. You read the instructions and notice that all answers must be rounded to the nearest whole number. What’s the deal with that!? I refuse to round; it’s absolutely absurd! You are trying to make me believe…

  • Stranded tourists need to contact DOT re bridge

    As I write this at 9:30 p.m. on this warm Sunday evening, there is still a very long line of car lights trying to exit from Sandy Hook. Due to the construction traffic on the new bridge it has been — like every nice day last year — unfairly backed up all day long and…

  • Action needed on Broadway flooding

    Broadway. What, when?! What is happening? When will it happen? Who will you tell? Will you notify by newspaper article all of Middletown, and the 60 or more petitioners who demanded action on Broadway, Belford, Port Monmouth? What are your intentions, Mr. Anthony Mercantante? And, when? We’re waiting! Twenty years is too long. As of…

  • Corzine team’s attitude won’t be ignored in Nov.

    At a recent Assembly budget hearing, Gov. Jon Corzine’s state treasurer, David Rousseau, was asked if he thought New Jerseyans were overtaxed. He stunned those in attendance when he answered with an emphatic, “no.” This, perhaps, illustrates better than anything else how out of touch the Corzine administration is with the plight of the New…

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