• Regional school district seeks new superintendent

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer The Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District Board of Education has hired a firm to search for candidates to fill the vacant superintendent position. Patrick DeGeorge, district business administrator, is currently serving as acting superintendent while a candidate for interim superintendent is identified. DeGeorge said the board has retained a firm to…

  • Crossing Borders Festival embraces Latino playwrights

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Flamenco dancers will perform at the Outdoor Neighborhood Party taking place at the Two River Plaza in Red Bank on Aug. 14 before the opening of the Crossing Borders Festival. MIKE McLAUGHLIN RED BANK — In the Latino community, there are diverse stories and voices waiting to be heard. From…

  • Golf benefit to aid children with muscular dystrophy

    Forsgate Country Club, Monroe Township, will host the Forsgate Foundation’s Chip in for Charity on Aug. 11. The fundraising and entertainment event, which is presented by Northeast Lock, will benefit Ryan’s Quest. Forsgate touring ambassador and Ryder Cup legend Colin Montgomerie will make a special appearance at the club during the festivities, according to a…

  • ‘Alice in Wonderland’ slated for Aug. 8, 9

    Seashore’s Junior Theater Camp will present Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland on Broadway” at 7 p.m. Aug. 8, and at 2 and 7 p.m. Aug. 9 at 410 Broadway, Long Branch. The musical will star Emma Larkin of Oakhurst, Natalie Wheeler of Highlands, Payton Lamp of Tinton Falls, Wayne Johnson of Little Silver, Beatrice Zaleski…

  • Advocates warn against leaving children in cars

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer The temperature both inside and outside of a parked vehicle is displayed during a July 30 demonstration focused on the dangers of leaving a child unattended in a vehicle. Right: Long Branch police officers remove a doll from a hot car during the demonstration. PHOTOS BY KENNY WALTER/STAFF I n…

  • Information sought in Long Branch murders

    Joan Colbert LONG BRANCH — The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office is asking for the public’s help with the investigation of the Aug. 1 double murder of a 62-year-old woman and her 10-year old foster daughter. Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced that the deaths of Joan Colbert, 62, and her foster daughter, Veronica…

  • Travel With Rose features Catskills trip

    Club 60 and St. Clements Church in Matawan will Travel With Rose to the Rocking Horse Resorts in the Catskills, N.Y., for a four-night, five-day trip Oct. 6-10. During the day, there will be meals, hayrides, shuffleboard, bocce, a sauna, paddleboats, trivia, coffee and cake, contests, games, bingo, prizes, an indoor pool, happy hour specials…

  • Card stock

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Mike Sellings of Brooklyn, N.Y., from left, Sabitino Guerriero of Hillsborough, Ed Hartkin of Matawan and Tom Visicaro of Hillsborough look through a pack of cards during the Sayreville First Aid Squad’s sports card and collectible fundraiser on July 26.

  • Residents are choosing to ‘skip the trip’

    I t was about a year ago that the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) began mailing its first batch of Skip the Trip notices to our customers, affording a majority of New Jersey citizens the opportunity to renew their driver’s license or nondriver IDs by mail. The Christie administration and the MVC are pleased…

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