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    The restored boardwalk in Ocean Grove. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR

  • Support the Shoreline Heart Walk on Nov. 3

    A fter a rough pregnancy, I gave birth to a healthy boy we named Ryan last year. I was 35 and ready to face the crazy world of newborns — baby giggles, late-night feedings and changing diapers. Instead, I was battling for my life instead of learning the ropes of being a new mom. I…

  • Apps enhance outdoor fun and safety

    A ny time is a good time to explore New Jersey’s great outdoors, and fall is especially glorious. If you want to find out where to hike, bike, paddle, fish, bird-watch, hunt or visit historic sites, check your phone. Over 60 percent of mobile phones are smartphones, and there’s been an explosion of new apps,…

  • Still trying to go home, one year after Sandy

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Union Beach resident Bart Sutton has been living with his family in a Keyport apartment since Sandy’s massive flood surge ravaged his home a year ago. He wanted to make the necessary repairs to his house, elevate it to a new 14-foot flood elevation and move back in, but the…

  • Sandy bills keep piling up

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer A rguably the most devastating storm to hit New Jersey’s shores, Sandy claimed more than three dozen lives and pushed hundreds of thousands from their homes across the state. Cleanup and repair expenses totaled more than $36 billion, according to Gov. Chris Christie, and the storm’s long-term effects on local…

  • Music at St. James’ presents voice recital

    LONG BRANCH — Music at St. James’ Church continues with a voice recital offered in conjunction with the Continuo Arts Foundation of Westfield at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 27. Featured are mezzo-soprano Jocelyn McGillian and sopranos Clarisse Colao and Hope Osborn, with former St. James’ Church organist Tom Colao accompanying. This will be an hour of…

  • Boro objects to rising share of fort housing

    By NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Tensions over increased housing obligations tied to the redevelopment of Fort Monmouth came to a head last week when members of the Eatontown Borough Council called for a delay on the awarding of contracts that would involve residential units. The request, which was formalized in a resolution, comes after the…

  • Candidates vie for Eatontown council seats

    An Eatontown resident since 1999; elected to council in 2010; member of the council’s Tenant’s Rights, Shade Tree, Economic Development and Community Block Grants committees as well as the Police Commission; member of Congregation Shaare Tefilah Bene Moshe, Eatontown; girls soccer coach for the Deal Sephardic Network league; owner of a furniture business and a…

  • Murders lead spike in crimes in Long Branch

    By KENNY WALTER A fter three years without a homicide in the city, Long Branch has seen a spike in violent crime, with five people killed to date this year, as the rate of other violent crimes also climbed. A rash of murders in 2013, the most recent on Sept. 21, is something Long Branch…

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