May 24, 2007 RSS feed / Front Page

Residents: Blocked beach is for the birds

BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent

SEA BRIGHT - - Residents of the Island View townhouse complex on Ocean Avenue are asking the borough to help them gain access to their beach which is being blocked to protect piping plovers that are nesting there. More...

Dialogue & celebration of Jewish culture

Monmouth University in West Long Branch will host a Jewish Culture Festival June 3 through 22. More...

Oceanport schools honor late mayor

Lecture series, essay contest recall Gatta's community service
BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer

OCEANPORT - - To ensure that Oceanport students remember and honor the late Mayor Maria Gatta, the school district set in a motion an educational program in her name. More...

Bond ordinance hearing at next council meeting

BY SARAH KLEPNER Staff Writer

RED BANK - Three bond ordinances for infrastructure work in the borough are up for approval at next week. More...

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CHRIS KELLY staff Now overgrown, this gun battery at Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook was key to defense of the coast. A tour of the battery was included in events at Coastal Defense Day, held May 20, to highlight the fort's military history. More...

Cultural center hosts 'Flowers for Heroes'

Families invited to plant flower garden at war memorial May 26

Red Bank - History and horticulture will converge Saturday when The Children's Cultural Center, a branch of The Community YMCA, hosts Flowers for Heroes, a beautification project to prepare the war memorial at 51 Monmouth St. More...

Opinion

No reason for neighbors to go to their beds hungry

Gr eg B ean Coda Although I'm in a business where most people don't get rich, my working wife and I have managed to raise three kids, put food on the table and keep a roof over our heads. More...

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Obituaries

Obituaries

Alan W. McCormick Mr. McCormick, 76, of Freehold Township, died May 9, 2007, at Bartley Healthcare Nursing & Rehabilitation, Jackson. He was born in Red Bank and had lived there, in Middletown and in Port St. More...

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Letters

Memorial Day is about honor, duty and sacrifice

Here is a surprise, I am not going to defend the Iraq war. I won't even explain the importance of the war on terrorism. V.A. budget? Not today. More...

Traffic fine folly

New Jersey has increased the fines for falling to present a driver's license when requested to $173. The fine for lack of an automobile registration is also $173, as is a failure to present an insurance card. More...

Many contributed to Elks benefit

Recently the Red Bank Elks Lodge 233 hosted an Evening of Entertainment to benefit our scholarship, Hoopshoot, peer conference, and other youth programs under the direction of Bill Barnes our scholarship chairman, who has been doing a great jo More...

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Arts / Zest

Windows on Monmouth

Artwork by Fair Haven artist Mary Cooper is on display in the windows of the Art Alliance gallery in Red Bank. Cooper creates collage and assemblage, giving cast-off items a second life. More...

'Something Old, Something New'

The Friends of the Monmouth Museum will host "Something Old, Something New and a Sixpence in Her Shoe," a luncheon and theatrical event to be held at the Shadowbrook in Shrewsbury Monday, June 6. More...

In the Arts

Phoenix Productions, Monmouth Street, Red Bank, will be accepting registrations for its summer Camp Phoenix for teenagers. More...

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JEFF GRANIT staff More than 200 volunteers from several organizations helped construct a playground for children living at a transitional housing facility in Tinton Falls May 16. See page 3. More...

Historic house on state endangered list

Mayor will spearhead drive to preserve Fortune House
BY SARAH KLEPNER Staff Writer

Preservation New Jersey has listed the T. Thomas Fortune House as endangered and has called on Red Bank officials to save the historic structure from development. The statewide preservation society has named the T. More...

Boro honors heroism in fighting Fountains blaze

Mayor lauds bravery of volunteers

SEA BRIGHT - - "I feel we had one big department to put that fire out," borough Fire Chief Patrick Mason Jr. More...

Timetable for FMERPA reuse plan abbreviated

Consultants have seven months to draft master plan
BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer

EATONTOWN - The reuse plan for Fort Monmouth will be completed in a condensed period of time, according to master plan consultants hired by the fort reuse authority. Timothy N. More...

Memorial Day services

Red Bank Elks Lodge 233, along with other organizations, will participate in the Red Bank-sponsored Memorial Day Service at the veterans monument on Monmouth Street May 28 at 11 a.m. More...

A playground of their own

Volunteers build play space for kids in transitional housing

TINTON FALLS - Monmouth County children who are in transitional housing, many of whom have never been to a playground, now have one to call their own. More...

Notes

This month is American Stroke Month and the American Stroke Association is a offering a free stroke awareness risk assessment and screening program developed to educate the public about stroke, its warning signs and risk factors and preventive More...

Budget approved, Tinton Falls opens new boro hall

BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer

TINTON FALLS - With the passage of the municipal budget last week, the municipal piece of the tax-rate puzzle dropped into place. And the council said goodbye to their old meeting room. More...

Bulletin Board

Chicken dinner at Long Branch church June 12

Asbury United Methodist Church, 61 Atlantic Ave., Long Branch, will hold a roast chicken dinner June 12 from 6-7:30 p.m. More...

JCP&L inspections slated for area

Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L), Morristown, has announced it will perform a second round of spring aerial inspections of its overhead transmission lines in northern and central New Jersey through May 23-25 (weather permitting). More...

Agency seeks donations for wildfire relief

The American Red Cross Jersey Coast Chapter, Tinton Falls/Toms River, has been on the scene providing the victims with emergency assistance including meals, snacks, emotional support and grief counseling following the wildfire that occur More...

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Sports

Rumson breaks out in second half to win SCT

Bulldogs top Colts Neck 8-6 in final
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer

As Doug Kennedy saw it, his Rumson-Fair Haven lacrosse team had two advantages in Friday's Shore Conference Tournament final against Colts Neck. More...

Rhoden, Cox, Smith win Shore track titles

Monmouth boys finish first
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer

Red Bank's Kerone Rhoden won the battle and Monmouth Regional's Charles Cox, the war. Rhoden defeated Cox in the highly anticipated 200-meter dash at Saturday's Shore Conference Track and Field Championships at Neptune High School. More...

Blues in World Series for third straight year

BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer

The power of positive thinking has Brookdale Community College in the Junior College World Series. More...

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Schools

On Campus

Kean University, Union, announced the names of the following local students who received scholarships for the 2006-07 school year at a scholars reception held in mid May: Lanolin C. More...

Red Bank schools invite participation

RED BANK -- The borough school district Board of Education is seeking to fill five committees with members of the community. More...

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