• Surfrider Foundation launches ‘Rethink the Coast’ website

    The Jersey Shore Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is encouraging people to “Rethink the Coast” following the anniversary of superstorm Sandy by visiting its new website, re-think.surfrider.org. “While the rallying cry to ‘Restore the Shore’ certainly galvanized needed action and support, we felt it didn’t allow for the careful reflection and planning we need going…

  • Calendar a tribute to ‘Jersey Shore Towns’

    FAIR HAVEN — More than a century of life in Monmouth County is documented in the Dorn’s Archive, which conserves thousands of classic images of historical relevance, nostalgic charm and human interest. Twelve months worth of these local vignettes make up 2014 Dorn’s Classic Images Calendar. The first calendar produced by Dorn’s Classic Images pays…

  • Help Lunch Break make children’s holidays happy

    RED BANK — Each holiday season, Lunch Break becomes Santa’s workshop to provide gifts for hundreds of the neediest children in both Monmouth and Ocean counties. Through the Adopt-A-Family program, new and age-appropriate gifts are distributed to children from newborns to 15-yearolds. This is made possible by the generosity of Lunch Break’s good friends and…

  • NPS: Interest high in Fort Hancock properties

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Historic housing units stand along Officer’s Row at Fort Hancock shortly after superstorm Sandy. The National Park Service is marketing a number of historic properties at the fort to private entities that will restore and occupy them. KEITH HEUMILLER MIDDLETOWN — Businesses, nonprofits and even residents have expressed an interest…

  • Downtown shopping convenient all year

    Sandwiched between the corporate-driven madness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday lies Small Business Saturday, which falls on Nov. 30 this year. American Express launched the event in 2010 to prod people to spend some holiday cash in mom-and-pop shops, if only for a day. While the blitz may add a few bucks to the…

  • Women’s group hosts holiday fundraiser

    RUMSON — The community is invited to join members of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Northern Monmouth County Branch on Dec. 2 for an evening of art and handiwork created by women around the globe. The annual holiday fundraiser of AAUW will begin at 7 p.m. at Rumson Presbyterian Church, 4 East River…

  • Red Bank launches search for new CFO

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer RED BANK – Red Bank’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Colleen Lapp is moving on down the road, literally. After serving as the borough’s top financial officer for the past two years, Lapp has accepted a position with Middletown Township and submitted her two-weeks notice to the governing body. Following the…

  • Search for answers to JFK’s death goes on for 50 years

    . JACK ZARAYA On Monday evening, Nov. 25, 1963, three days after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, my cousin Louie visited me in the Bronx apartment where I lived with my parents. The conversation, as in most American households, revolved around the events of that weekend. “What do you think happened?” Louie,…

  • GUEST COLUMN

    Sandy beneficial to state’s piping plovers . MICHELE S. BYERS One year ago, superstorm Sandy moved tons of sand inland and upward — as storms have done for millennia. This caused much suffering to New Jersey’s coastal communities, but not so for the piping plover, a native beachfront bird. It turns out that Sandy was…

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