IN THE ARTS
      The Monmouth County Arts Council and friends held a "Celebration of Excellence" Oct. 5 to celebrate the arts and the contributions of Bob and Joan Rechnitz, founders of Two River Theater in Red Bank. A joint Legislative resolution to honor and salute the Rechnitz's dedication and patronage of t...
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Luminous landscapes at Laurel Tracey Gallery
      An exhibit of recent landscape paintings by artists Richard Kooyman and Derek Buckner opened Oct. 12 at Laurel Tracey Gallery in Red Bank. "The Landscape," Kooyman's first exhibition at the gallery, will run through Nov. 2. Laurel Tracey gallery is located at 10 White St.
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15th annual Juried Show at Guild of Creative Art
      From the shores of Monmouth County to the shores of Donegal, locations near and far are on view in a vibrant multi-media show of contemporary American artists at the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury. Michael Cagno, curator of the Noyes Museum in Oceanville and an experienced photographer and p...
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For a while, it was always summer in Long Branch
City native authors two books on history of Long Branch
BY LINDA DeNICOLA Correspondent
      Long Branch history is alive and well and is being showcased in a number of books by native daughter Sharon Hazard, whose family tree branches back to the 1860s, when her great-grandmother immigrated to the coastal town from Ireland.
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