June 16, 2011 RSS feed / Front Page

Understanding, empathy is message of Abilities Day

Students learn that physical & developmental challenges can be overcome
BY DAN HOWLEY
Staff Writer

Students at Maple Place Middle School in Oceanport learned an important lesson in understanding during the school’s third annual Abilities Day. More...

Rowing on the river

From top: Allison Lehman, Ocean Township, gets a rowing lesson from instructor Eamon Sweeny during Learn-to-Row Day on the Navesink River in Red Bank on June 12. More...

Community gardeners look forward to bountiful season

Sales from garden fund Crawford House restoration
BY KENNYWALTER
Staff Writer

TINTON FALLS —Stakeholders are hoping to build on the success of the borough’s community garden, which last year included a weekly farm stand whose sales funded restorations to the historic Crawford House. More...

Photo contest to capture five decades of open space preservation, park development

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but howmany pictures would it take to capture the beauty of preserving 650,000 acres of open space and parks in New Jersey over the past 50 years? More...

Columns

The trouble with trillions, and it’s not science fiction

CODA
GREG BEAN

I f you’ve been listening to the news lately, you know there’s a huge debate in Washington over raising the national debt limit. More...

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June: Make your mark in the garden

GREEN SCENE
GOTTI KELLEY

W“Don’t wear perfume in the garden —unless you want to be pollinated by bees.”Anne Rover More...

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Sports

McNamara, Shuler-Foster earn silver medals at MOC

BY TIM MORRIS
Staff Writer

Past Meet of Champion winners Molly McNamara and Miles Shuler-Foster didn’t get what they came for at this year’s NJSIAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships. However, neither walked away with regrets. They left it all on the track. More...

Lancer softball team sweeps all five championship titles

SJV wins second straight state crown
BY MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent

From the start of the season, St. John Vianney High School was considered a top program in New Jersey, let alone the Shore Conference. Over the last two weeks, the Lancers fulfilled every expectation. St. More...

18th Sheehan Classic is Sat. in Red Bank

BYWARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent

The 18th annual George Sheehan Classic 5-mile road race kicks off on Saturday at 8:30 a.m., and about 2,000 runners are expected to participate. More...

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Photo

Devonte Clark, Red Bank, gets a rowing lesson on the Navesink River from instructor Julie Gregg during Learn to Row Day held in Red Bank and sponsored by Navesink River Rowing on June 12. More...

Over objections, boro OKs liquor license change

Sea Bright council allows transfer to Surfider beach club, banquet facility
BY DAN HOWLEY
Staff Writer

Sea Bright residents and borough business owners turned out in force for last week’s Borough Council meeting to protest the transfer of a liquor license to the Surfrider Beach Club. More...

Deadlock continues on site of community garden

Council approves garden project at site other than West Front Street
BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer

RED BANK — The Borough Council simultaneously endorsed a community garden and rejected a proposed West Front Street location for it with an official resolution June 8, riling the site’s ardent advocates. More...

R.B. summer campers will explore river

BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer

RED BANK— The borough public school district’s summer program aims to bridge the gap between school years with the help of several community partners. More...

Aslan’s ‘Island Nights’ fundraiser July 23

RED BANK — Aslan Youth Ministries, a nonprofit that provides leadership programs for disadvantaged youths in Asbury Park, Long Branch and Red Bank, will host its largest fundraiser of the year 5:30-11 p.m. July 23. More...

Fresh Air Fund seeks host families

BY REBECCAMORTON
Staff Writer

A program that brings New York City children to the suburban splendor of New Jersey for a week of summer fun is seeking new host families for 2011. More...

Let it rain!

SHREWSBURY — More than a dozen local residents learned how easy it is to catch and harvest rainwater during the Shrewsbury Garden Club’s first “Make a Rain Barrel” workshop held Saturday, May 21, at Shrewsbury Hose Company No. More...

Bulletin Board

2nd Infantry Division veterans sought

The 2nd (Indianhead) Division Association is searching for anyone who ever served in the 2nd Infantry Division at any time. For information about the association and its annual reunion in St. Louis on Aug. More...

Red Bank Food & Wine Walk returns

Red Bank RiverCenter’s popular Food & Wine Walk event will take place on the second and fourth Sundays of the month in June, July and August from 4 to 7 p.m. More...

Library sponsoring new logo contest

Calling all young artists: the Monmouth County Library System is seeking a new logo, and a contest to find the best logo is now under way. More...

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Obituaries

William J. Scalzo Sr.

Mr. Scalzo, 87, of Rumson, died June 10, 2011. AU.S. More...

John Paul Rafter

Mr. Rafter, 79, of Middletown, died June 6, 2011, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. An alumnus of St. More...

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Letters

Before work begins, NPS owes the public some answers

It was reported in The Hub that the Natinal Park Service’s Peter McCarthy, Sandy Hook Unit manager, stated to those attending the NPS-sponsored tour of Fort Hancock buildings that the first building to next be rehabilitated would be the Officer More...

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Arts / Zest

Paintings, photography share gallery space at The Guild

The Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury is hosting concurrent exhibits: “Recent Thoughts,” paintings by Lucy Kalian, and “Beach Generations,” photography by Trudy Maran and Jill Saari. More...

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