MB Commissioner Concerns: Serving for 95 Years
The first borough commissioner I ever knew well was Sidney B. Johnson. No surprise there — he was a Monmouth Beach icon. Those familiar...
Author: Greg Kelly
Fargo in Monmouth Beach History …
The Wells Fargo Bank branch on Beach Road will close its doors permanently this October, company officials have confirmed to Mayor Tim Somers. Ironically...
Sea Bright’s “Motel”
It’s had multiple identities over the past 65 years — only the geography is unchanged. In recent times, the spot has undergone a glorious...
Sea Bright … Shore Shots
Few seashore communities offer a richer blending of sand and sea. Technically, Sea Bright is a barrier beach — narrow and long. This land...
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 large private cottage. Mifflin Paul...
Local Railroads: MB • LB • SB
For Gilded Age elites to make a remote seashore region (Sea Bright, Monmouth Beach and Long Branch) into an exclusive summer resort, they required...
Sheila Marie (Kelly) Sharemet, 1956-2025 — RIP
☘️ A superb Irish gal leaves us on St. Patrick’s Day … Sheila Marie (Kelly) Sharemet — strong in mind, body and soul —...
Vivian Johnson: Shore Nightclub Queen
She was the fashionable female contingent of the borough’s most famous political family. Vivian Johnson, born in March 1901, was a trend-setter and accomplished...
“The Reservation” — Long Branch’s Cottage Colony
By Michael Sheehan Going Back 125 Summers … It’s an amusing tale about a forgotten era in city life. Visitors to the popular Seven...
MB “Library Room” @ 100
The borough “library room” opened a century ago … Monmouth Beach is a community of readers. As a writer — they’ve been looking at...
10 Things I Love About the Beach
Summer of ’25 … With another Jersey Shore summer season upon us, I must remember — the beach is here to be shared with...
Mihm Family: River Rulers
The Shrewsbury River has played an important role in the social and commercial development of Monmouth Beach. In the early years, it was a...
Doctoring by the River …
Hospitals were sacred territory to my physician-father. Life transforming and medically heroic at their best; clean and caring at a minimum. He spent the...
Sea Bright Table Setters …
Dinner & Drinks in Sea Bright — Sea Bright is a great many fine things. Among them is a neat spot to grab a...
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...
Monmouth Beach & the Atomic Age
80 Summers ago a Monmouth Beach man advocated for the big bomb … My father always told me that Harry Truman should be my...
