• Local steps can address threats to ocean life

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer Changes at the local level could avert the dire consequences of activities such as seafloor mining and seismic testing, which damage marine habitats and threaten the survival of oceanic species, according to a new study. “Marine Defaunation: Animal Loss in the Global Ocean,” published on Jan. 16 in the…

  • Holmdel church aids in rebuilding of shrine in N.Y.

    By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Kimisis Tis Theotokou Church is helping to raise funds for the $38 million reconstruction of a house of worship destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York City. The Holmdel church, located on Hillcrest Road, is hoping to contribute toward the rebuilding of Saint Nicholas…

  • The Arc of Monmouth slates seminars for coming months

    The Arc of Monmouth, at 1158 Wayside Road in Tinton Falls, has scheduled several seminars for families beginning in February. Registration for these free seminars is required by visiting www.arcofmonmouth.org/2015/01/communityconversations spring2015.  “The Housing Conversation Continues” will be held from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 3. Listen to a New Jersey family share their story on how…

  • One-woman show highlights Rumson’s eccentricities

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Siobhan Fallon Hogan Siobhan Fallon Hogan’s father warned her when she moved to Rumson that it was a different lifestyle from her humble upbringing in upstate New York. “He said, ‘Siobhan, do you realize you just moved to the Division I of life?’ ” Hogan said. “ ‘These people all…

  • Expand access to women’s health care

    This month is the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision giving women access to abortion and the power to make their own health care decisions. I am outraged that currently politicians have introduced 335 provisions that restrict access to abortion services. Low-income women are particularly hurt by these new restrictions, whmay require them…

  • Mark Twain, 19th-century techie, sought phonograph to dictate tale

    YOUR TURN DANIEL WEEKS GUEST COLUMN Mark Twain’s novel, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” will be 125 years old this month. Twain wrote it over a three-year period in the late 1880s, just at the time Thomas A. Edison was preparing his new wax-cylinder phonograph for commercial production. Twain thought he might use…

  • Bills would promote endless hunting

    Do you believe wild animals deserve a day of rest — a day when they cannot be hunted? Currently, New Jersey prohibits hunting on public lands on Sundays, but if state Sen. Joseph Kyrillos Jr. (R-Monmouth) has his way, that would change. Kyrillos has introduced Bill S699, which would allow Sunday hunting in New Jersey.…

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    MATT DENTON Marie Sill, 6, creates a popcorn craft during the National Popcorn Day event held at the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore program activity center in Howell on Jan. 18.

  • Chorus sets auditions for vocal scholarships

    The Monmouth Civic Chorus will hold its annual vocal scholarship auditions, by appointment only, for New Jersey high school seniors planning to pursue higher education on Saturday, April 18, in Red Bank. The deadline for the application and $10 application fee is April 11. A total of $2,500 in scholarships is available for students with…

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