Images of Sandy Hook Lighthouse …
Nearly 260 years of service … It’s the Jersey Shore’s noblest outpost. At once majestic and mighty, it’s a tribute to commerce and continuity...
Author: Greg Kelly
Long Branch Eats …
Photo-essay on city restaurants and bars through the years … Long Branch has always had its share of good dining spots — places to...
Oldest Pharmacy in Long Branch
Pharmacist, Doctor, Mayor — All in North End The city’s longest operating pharmacy was started in North Long Branch more than 125 years ago....
Seasons in the Sun: Local Beach Clubs
Monmouth Beach, Long Branch and Sea Bright — Resting til Summer ’24 … There’s no place like home — except maybe the beach. During...
Monmouth County’s Finest Young Minds …
Now is the time to consider our wonderful career academies … With another new school year in session, I highly recommend that local parents...
MB Post Office — A Century of Service
The US Post Office in Monmouth Beach — it’s had three homes in borough history — dates back nearly 100 years. In April 1924,...
MB Bathing Pavilion Images …
The Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion (MBBP) — the borough’s only public beach club — has operated for over a century of summers. I’ve favored...
Long Branch’s “Showman Mayor”
Daniel J. Maher is certainly one of the most fascinating leaders — both civic and commercial — in all Long Branch history. This epic...
US Life-Saving Service at Takanassee Lake
Revered as heroes of the Atlantic Coast — members of the United States Life-Saving Service had a code: “you have to go out, but...
“The Reservation” — Long Branch’s Cottage Colony
By Michael Sheehan Visitors to Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park in the City of Long Branch may notice a large house standing alone near the...
Oceanport’s “Sharp-Shooting” Mayor
Oceanport residents will have a new leader in 2024. Mayor Jay Coffey is stepping down after a calming two terms. The only “Write-In Mayor”...
Long Branch Stadium: History & Photos
It’s difficult to narrow down a true name? It opened as Ocean Park in 1934 and closed as Long Branch Stadium in 1957. During...
Images of Sandy Hook …
It has 500 years of history — going back to the 1520s when Giovanni da Verrazzano became the first European to explore our “Jersey...
Doctoring by the River …
Hospitals were sacred territory to my physician-dad. Clean and caring at a minimum; life transforming and medically heroic at their best. He spent the...
The Octagon — Sea Bright’s Grandest Hotel
Few more magnificent structures have ever graced the Jersey Shore. The Octagon Hotel in Sea Bright began as a private cottage built by Mifflin...
“Reading on Broadway” — Long Branch Library
It’s considered a “Carnegie Library.” The Long Branch Free Public Library on Broadway was funded by a Carnegie Foundation grant (which financed nearly 1,700...
