• Monmouth County Fair promises fun for all

    The Monmouth County Fair will be held July 23-27 at the East Freehold Showgrounds on Kozloski Road, Freehold Township. Presented by the Monmouth County Park System in cooperation with the Monmouth County 4-H Association, the fair hours will be 5-11 p.m. every night except Sunday, when the fair will be open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. This…

  • Monmouth University elects new board officers

    WEST LONG BRANCH — Monmouth University’s Board of Trustees elected Henry D. Mercer III, of Locust, to serve as its chair, effective July 1. Mercer, a member of the university’s board since 2011, is president and chief investment strategist of Mercer Capital Advisers Inc., which he founded in 1999. He succeeds Robert B. Sculthorpe, who…

  • IN THE NEWS

    Want lower property taxes? Change New Jersey’s justices Mark Rosman On July 7, WKXW-FM posted a news story on its website reporting that state legislators may be in session in Trenton during the traditional summer break. The news story contained a quote from the speaker of the state Assembly, Vincent Prieto (D-Hudson). Prieto is one…

  • New resource center offers outreach to Sandy victims

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN First Lady Mary Pat Christie, right, attended the opening of the resource center on July 16. While so much has been accomplished and rebuilt in the 20 months following superstorm Sandy, there is still work to be done. The Affordable Housing Alliance officially opened a Housing Recovery Resource Center in Atlantic Highlands…

  • VSA New Jersey seeks writers for competition

    The Unlimited Potential Theater Co., a project of VSA New Jersey, is seeking poems, essays, short stories and plays for its 21st annual Joyce Indik New Jersey Wordsmith Competition. The contest is open to all New Jersey writers age 18 and over. Submissions by writers with disabilities are encouraged. All works will be juried by…

  • University juniors win awards at Hackathon

    WEST LONG BRANCH — Monmouth University’s Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering has announced that two junior students, Justin R. Schlemm, of Leonardo, and Taylor J. Klodowski, of Manasquan, recently earned a second-place award at Marathon Data Systems’ second annual “Marathon Hackathon,” which was held June 7 and 8 at Marathon Data Systems’ office…

  • Workshops offered for children with autism

    VSA New Jersey has announced fall program offerings for children with autism ages 3-21 and their family members. The Parent/Child Workshops in the Arts for Children with Autism offers weekly workshops in the visual and performing arts so that young people can enhance their understanding and appreciation of the arts. The workshops will be offered…

  • Grants for child care benefit families impacted by Sandy

    The Christie administration announced that 43 child care facilities and 122 children using those services are benefiting from more than $300,000 in Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) funding in superstorm Sandy-impacted counties. Administered through the Department of Human Services’ Division of Family Development, the grants cover subsidies to families whose child care was disrupted as…

  • ‘Tablet Tuesday’ set for July 29 at library

    The Long Branch Public Library will host its “Tablet Tuesday” program 3:30- 4:30 p.m. July 29 at the library’s Technology Center at 328 Broadway. The program is held at the library on the last Tuesday of each month. Learn how to borrow free e-books and audiobooks through the library’s website and how to download e-books…

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