• Report cites need to track tax-exempt properties

    By KEITH HEUMILLER and KENNY WALTER Staff Writers While nonprofit organizations such as churches, charities and schools may provide substantial benefits to area communities, their tax-exempt status often presents a complicated set of challenges for municipal officials. According to a recent report by the New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller, lax management of tax-exempt…

  • Cole Bros. circus coming to Oceanport

    Cole Bros.’ “Circus of the Stars,” featuring magic, clowns, elephants, tigers, aerialists and acrobats, will take place from Aug. 19-22 with daily performances at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. at the Monmouth Park parking lot at Oceanport and Port- Au-Peck avenues in Oceanport. The new 2013 performance will include Princess Vicenta’s assemblage of white tigers and…

  • Mayor’s Wellness Campaign sponsors Community Walk

    RED BANK — The Mayor’s Wellness Committee will be sponsoring its second one-mile community walk through two parks in the downtown district on Sept. 28. Participants can sign in at 9:30 a.m., with the walk beginning in Marine Park at 10 a.m. Participants will follow a one-mile path to Riverside Gardens Park and back to…

  • Money Clip

    Peeling back the label Jack Murtha I might as well kick off this column with a confession: I still use the same brand of deodorant that I wore 10 years ago. From high school gym class to the cubicle, I’ve relied on a single company to ward off attacks on my personal hygiene. It’s not…

  • Local restaurants to compete at cook-off

    OCEANPORT — Show-stopping crab cakes and other seafood favorites from the Garden State’s finest restaurants and caterers will be featured at the seventh annual Shore Chef Crab Cake Cook-Off on Aug. 17 and 18, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Monmouth Park Racetrack, 175 Oceanport Ave., Oceanport. Some of New Jersey’s favorite eateries will…

  • Sea Bright seeks community input for long-term recovery

    SEA BRIGHT — A volunteer committee is asking borough residents and business owners to offer input on the future of Sea Bright. The Sea Bright 2020 Recovery Committee will hold a community workshop at Holy Cross School in Rumson at 7 p.m. Aug. 21. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will assist with the effort.…

  • ‘A Night of Playing it Safe’ focuses on cardiac events

    By JACK MURTHA Staff Writer Olympian and New Jersey Hall of Fame Inductee Joetta Clark Diggs speaks at Red Bank Regional (RBR) High School on Aug. 6 during The Matthew J. Morahan III Center presentation entitled “A Night of Playing it Safe.” Memories of Riyadh’na Farrow and Albert E. Martin Jr. — two students who…

  • Shared municipal court proposal moves forward

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer A n agreement to share municipal court services between Tinton Falls, Eatontown and Monmouth Beach cleared the first hurdle last week when the Tinton Falls Borough Council approved the measure. Before the council approved a resolution for the shared court, which would be located at the Tinton Falls Municipal Complex…

  • Is New Jersey climbing out?

    By JACK MURTHA Staff Writer Chris Martin New Jersey is slowly breaking away from the doldrums of the economic recession, but it will likely take several years and a chain of smart decisions before the state can tout a full recovery, according to financial experts. The preliminary unemployment rate in New Jersey hit 8.7 percent…

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