CHRIS KELLY staff Several models of the smart car fortwo are lined up two to a parking space on Broad Street Aug. 19, demonstrating their potential to help ease the parking crunch in urban settings like Red Bank. Story, page 4.
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Little Silver, Fair Haven, Rumson look at sharing services
BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer
Astudy of the feasibility of merging the police departments of Little Silver, Fair Haven and Rumson is under way, funded by a SHARE Grant awarded by the New Jersey State Department of Community Affairs. More...
U.F. resident participates in new Monmouth Coaching Invitational
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer
UPPER FREEHOLD - Joe Jennings' love of antique road coaches began as a kid in the 1950s when he first saw them at an exhibition in Oceanport's Monmouth Park. Although he had driven pleasure horses before, it wasn't until 1986 that coaches started to reappear in the driving world and he first tried his hand at driving the antique vehicles. More...
Scaled-down auto fits two to a parking space
BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer
RED BANK - - The answer to the parking crunch in the downtown may very well have been parked on Broad Street over the weekend. Several models of the smart fortwo, billed as the nation's smallest automobile, were parked two to a parking space outside Jack's Music Shoppe on Saturday and Sunday. More...
Many features of fire-torn mansion will be duplicated
BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer
A$9 million insurance settlement will allow the county to rebuild the historic Thompson Park Visitors Center, a 110-year-old mansion lost in a fire last year. On Thursday, the Monmouth County Park System released the bid specs to refurbish the Lincroft building, plans that call for the façade to be very similar to its original Colonial Revival style. More...
FMERPA seeks more time to draw up plan
BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent
FREEHOLD - The authority formed to draw up a redevelopment plan for Fort Monmouth, which is scheduled to close in 2011, will ask for an extension of its December deadline through September 2008. More...
Freeman G. Quick has graduated from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Leader's Training Course at Fort Knox, Ky. Cadets receive training in fundamental military skills, rifle marksmanship, small arms tactics, weapons training, drill and ceremonies, communications, and squad-level operations field training. More...
The annual Fair Haven Volunteer Fire Company Firemen's Fair, the largest firemen's fair in New Jersey, will open Aug. 24. The perennially popular fair offers rides and attractions for the whole family. A sit-down dining room featuring local seafood specialties along with an "Out-Back" kitchen that serves traditional festival barbecue fare is also available. More...
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