
ERIC SUCAR staff Jazz and blues musician T.J. Wheeler performs during the 21st Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival held in Marine Park beside the Navesink River in Red Bank June 1-3. More photos, page 40.
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FMERPA public meetings to begin June 12
BY LINDA DENICOLA Staff Writer
All the pieces of the puzzle that make up the planning for the closing of Fort Monmouth in 2011 are being tweaked and analyzed in the hope that they will fit into place before the Dec. 8 deadline set by the federal government's Department of Defense. More...
Shrewsbury church has long tradition of progressive ideas

BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer
SHREWSBURY - - The Presbyterian Church at Shrewsbury has a history that predates the Revolutionary War, and the church is gearing up to celebrate an unprecedented 275 years in the borough. According to its pastor for the past 12 years, the Rev. David McKirachan, the church's histo... More...
Local named to head program for kids who lost parents
BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer
LONG BRANCH - Tracy C. Burns was teaching a class of preschool students in Old Bridge when the attacks on the World Trade Center took place on Sept. 11, 2001. Burns, along with six of her prekindergarten students, was awaiting news that morning on whether her own father and those o... More...
FAIR HAVEN - The Navesink Maritime Heritage Association will sponsor the ninth annual Wooden Boat Fest June 9 and 10 at the borough firehouse grounds on River Road. This year 10 families and nonprofit organizations will build 10 canoes, starting with a 16-foot sheet of marine plywood a... More...