For Gilded Age elites to make a remote seashore region (Sea Bright, Monmouth Beach and Long Branch) into an exclusive summer resort, they required...

Summers Remembered in Monmouth Beach, Long Branch and Sea Bright … There’s no place like home — except maybe the beach. During peak summer...

Consider our outstanding career academies … Getting the best education for your child is a crucial parental duty. I strongly urge local families to...

America will celebrate 250 years … “According to several sources, including a booklet, A Sketch of Monmouth County, published in 1929 by the Board...

Plus, a list of all borough mayors … Oceanport’s first mayor was Charles W. Billings. An early and eager advocate for borough independence, he...

Nothing too close … that’s good! He’s known popularly as “Dr. Beach.” Director of the Florida International University Laboratory for Coastal Research in Miami,...

By Michael Sheehan I picked up a book one day, The Youngest Science, written by famed author and medical researcher, Lewis Thomas, M.D. To...

The concept of a shore-area high school was discussed as early as 1955. In the following years, four local towns — Monmouth Beach,  West...

A View to Remember & More … From the base of Maine to the tip of Florida (and even as far down as the...

Long a proud and sturdy fixture of Monmouth County, Fort Monmouth was officially closed in September 2011. The Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority has...

(From an interview I conducted with General Dawkins in 2010) What can you say about Peter Dawkins? He’s a man with one of the...

When it comes to the future of Sandy Hook, I’ve reached a certainty. I’d like to see as little change as possible. I am...

Note: For sure he’s a member of “America’s Greatest Generation.” Dr. Jim Sheehan (my family knew him as “Uncle Blackie”) was also an “anchor...

The average American family dines on burgers about three times a week. Adults like them, kids like them. For serious fans so much goes...