• Plastics still top beach litter list

    By GREG KENNELTY Catie Tobin, ocean advocacy and education fellow for Clean Ocean Action, explains that plastic pieces top the “Dirty Dozen” of debris littering New Jersey beaches at an April 17 press conference held on Sandy Hook. SANDY HOOK — Plastic debris continues to account for the lion’s share of litter that washes up…

  • Jones: Cuts to program would hurt businesses

    By KENNY WALTER LONG BRANCH — Businesses in the Long Branch Urban Enterprise Zone (UEZ) would lose tax-exempt status for business-to-business purchases under a change proposed by the Christie administration. According to Jacob Jones, director of the city’s UEZ program, Gov. Chris Christie has proposed eliminating the exemption allowed for businesses in the UEZ zone,…

  • Teachers can sign up for workshops at Rider

    The National Writing Project at Rider University will hold professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers from July 8-17. Classes include “Modeling Informational Writing, Poetry and Personal Narratives”; “Writing to Support Content-Area Literacy”; “Beginning Teacher Workshop”; “Using MS OneDrive in the Classroom”; “Readers Workshop: Building a Community of Readers”; “Word Work”; and “Classroom Management.” Workshops cost…

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    The remains of the boardwalk along the beaches of Long Branch as seen on April 17.

  • Reusable tote bags better for environment

    Kudos to the New York City Council for introducing a bill that would impose a 10- cent fee on all plastic and paper grocery bags. If the bill passes, it will help clean up our environment and save countless animals. According to Rebecca Hosking, who made the riveting documentary, “Hawaii: Message in the Waves,” plastic…

  • Phone collection will help student’s effort

    I am a high school sophomore in the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools performing arts dance program, and I have set an ambitious goal. I will raise $7,000 to study abroad with People to People, while giving back to my community and the world in the process. Accomplishing this will surely take more than…

  • Sunday comic offers religious ‘gems’

    Reading the Sunday comics or even the daily ones is a way of life for many here in America. This tradition has been going on for many decades. The comics can make you laugh or make you think about the theme it portrays. Recently, a long running-comic staple “The Family Circus” showed the family coming…

  • A binding arbitration law is needed

    Few things in government are ever black and white. Most fall within shades of gray, to be parsed out by policy makers. But the current issue of the expired binding arbitration cap is not one of these. The message is simple — we must make this law permanent. Allowing this critical law to expire is…

  • TEDxNavesink comes to Red Bank

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Gabriella Levine leads the discussion, “Democratizing Innovation with Open-Source Hardware,” during last year’s TEDxNavesink conference at Brookdale Community College. This year, the event will take place May 10 at the Two River Theater in Red Bank. RED BANK — Following the success of last year’s TEDxNavesink conference at Brookdale Community…

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