• Hop over for breakfast with Easter Bunny

    The Easter Bunny will join the Eatontown Lions Club at its Spring Pancake Breakfast on March 29 at the Meadowbrook School on Wyckoff Road in Eatontown. The all-the-pancakes-you-can-eat breakfast will be served from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. and will include sausage, orange juice, coffee, tea or milk. The Easter Bunny will greet children and be available…

  • Members of Long Branch business community honored

    LONG BRANCH — The Greater Long Branch Chamber of Commerce announced the recipients of the 2015 Louis G. Libutti Community Service Award. Receiving the Libutti Award on March 20 will be Anthony “Tony” Perri of Fine Fare Supermarket, and Michael Bienz and Sam Nativo of MIX Lounge and 2nd Floor Restaurant. Exemplary leadership, outstanding professional…

  • Long Branch Elks host Italian buffet

    The Long Branch Elks Lodge 742 will host an All-You-Can-Eat Italian Buffet 6-8 p.m. April 10 at 150 Garfield Ave., Long Branch. The buffet is open to the public. The cost is $8 per person and includes meatballs, sausage, chicken Parmesan, linguine with clam sauce, ziti, stuffed rigatoni, salad, coffee and dessert. For more information,…

  • Firehouse to host poker tournament

    Wanamassa Fire Company will host a Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament at 6:30 p.m. April 4 at 1401 Wickopecko Drive, Wanamassa. Chips fly at 7:30 p.m. Register by March 25 for additional bonus chips and a coupon for 50 percent off of the first rebuy/add-on. Food, soda and water are included. For more information, call 732-695-…

  • Long Branch Class of ’75 to reunite

    The Long Branch High School (LBHS) class of 1975 will sponsor a 40th reunion on Oct. 10. For more information, call Diane Hiro Gerwer at 732-776-7180 or log on to LBHS Class of 1975 on Facebook.

  • Casino Night to benefit local charities

    The Mid Atlantic Resource Group Foundation will hold its seventh annual Casino Night Gala at 7 p.m. March 28 at Branches, 123 Monmouth Road. Proceeds will benefit local charities, including Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth & Middlesex Counties and Autism New Jersey. The event will feature cocktails, dinner, casino games and prizes. Tickets are…

  • Ranney students knit, crochet to help newborns

    By KAYLA J. MARSH Ranney School junior Peri Rohl and advisor Laura Goodrow donate more than 30 hats and 10 to 15 blankets to Riverview Medical Center as part of the “Saved by a Stitch” program that involved 20 of the school’s students. COURTESY OF LAURA GOODROW TINTON FALLS — Equipped with knitting needles and…

  • Competitive sports reject the Golden Rule

    Ray Kalainikas Manalapan It should be obvious that a competitive sport is a rejection of the Golden Rule and the command to love your neighbor as yourself, but politicians and the major religious groups within our society have yet to catch on. Vast numbers of people still do not realize that our purpose in living…

  • ‘Electroboy’ author to discuss mental illness

    WEST LONG BRANCH — Author and mental health advocate Andy Behrman will givea7p.m.talkonMarch31atMonmouth University’s Wilson Hall Auditorium, 400 Cedar Ave. Behrman will reflect on his memoir, “Electroboy,” and discuss his personal experiences with mental illness. This event is free and open to the public. “Electroboy” chronicles Behrman’s battle with bipolar disorder — the euphoric highs…

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