• Silly season is over, and now it’s the Season of the Weird

    Coda • GREG BEAN It was the late, great Hunter S. Thompson who observed that “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” And these days, it looks like we’ve got a whole passel of people looking to shed their amateur rags and exchange them for the flashy professional variety. We have definitely entered…

  • The maddening, glorious times of our children’s lives

    Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH Mturned a year old. As the birthday girl licked the frosting off a flower cookie that didn’t look so much like a flower, my friend observed that she didn’t know where the last year had gone and then wondered, “Will the time always go so fast?” I had…

  • Magicians of basketball

    ERIC SUCAR staff The Harlem Globetrotters put on an exhibition before a large crowd at the Robert Collins Arena, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, March 17. Clockwise from top left: Bear Butler, Special K Daley (center), Tiny Lawrence (center), Special K Daley and Scooter Christensen

  • Teen Arts Festival

    PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Clockwise from top: Devin Lane, Keyport High School, takes part in an art workshop during the Teen Arts Festival held at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on March 20. Mater Dei High School seniors Maria Basile (l-r), Nicole Murphy and Alyson Osborn admire the work they created in a workshop…

  • Transition fair shows students a bright future

    Special needs students learn about college, careers BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer The Middletown Public School District held a transition fair last week to highlight career paths open to students with special needs and to help raise their expectations for the future. CHRIS KELLY staff Above: Paul Panicali speaks with Kim Bratnik, Beachwood, who is…

  • Monmouth Festival of the Arts March 28

    “Dancing Geckos, Curaçao” by Sanford Cook TINTON FALLS — The 39th annual Monmouth Festival of the Arts, one of the region’s largest juried art shows, will open on Saturday, March 28, and run through Wednesday, April 1, at Monmouth Reform Temple, 332 Hance Ave. in Tinton Falls. During these five days, the Monmouth Reform temple…

  • Boat builders during WWII topic of talk

    MONMOUTH BEACH — Bob O’Brien, president of the New Jersey Museum of Boating in Bay Head, will present an illustrated history of local boat builders during WWII and their craft. “The History of Boatbuilding during WWII on the Jersey Coast” will be presented 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center, 128…

  • Classic film, jazz and more at library in April

    RED BANK — A special screening of the 1930s movie “Romance and Red Bank” will be presented at the Red Bank Public Library 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 9. “Time and nostalgia have turned ‘Romance and Red Bank’ into an engaging documentary of life in the 1930s,” says Kathy Dorn Severini, curator of the Dorns’…

  • T.F. man sentenced for bank robberies

    FREEHOLD — Richard C. DeMott Jr., of Tinton Falls, was sentenced to an 18- year state prison term for five Monmouth County bank robberies, which he committed during an eight-week period last summer. The sentence was imposed March 20 by state Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mellaci Jr. in Monmouth County. Pursuant to the No…

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