The borough “library room” opened a century ago … Monmouth Beach is a community of readers. As a writer — they’ve been looking at...

The Shrewsbury River has played an important role in the social and commercial development of Monmouth Beach. In the early years, it was a...

A doctor owned the beach towns … I made a satisfying publishing career working as the editor of a physician’s business magazine. It helped...

Monmouth Beach was likely home to the first formal golf course on the Jersey Shore.* Just before the turn of the century, investors purchased...

“Where no one remembers your name …” Resting along the banks of Manahasset Creek was the landmark Monmouth Beach Inn. This hospitable and sometimes...

80 Summers ago a Monmouth Beach man advocated for the big bomb … My father always told me that Harry Truman should be my...

Spectacular seashore mansions … One way that the wealthy like to flex is through the building of huge houses. A fetching feature of Monmouth...

The preservation and promotion of history — Monmouth Beach and beyond — is an important trust. History once past is most difficult to recapture....

The Monmouth Beach Bath & Tennis Club (known popularly as “The Club”) rests along Ocean Avenue. This fabulous Atlantic coast building is the definitive...

The Mayor’s Market … A neighborhood cornerstore is something found in many American communities. Like in Monmouth Beach. Down through the years many a...

Gilded Age Glory at the Jersey Shore … By the 1880s — thanks to the advent of a shore-area railroad system and a train...

It’s the musical equivalent of Bruce Springsteen, Charlie Puth, Billy Joel, Taylor Swift, and Frank Sinatra among others all coming to Monmouth Beach for...

Many seasoned borough residents know that a train once ran through town. Monmouth Beach also had a railroad station — two in fact. The...

The Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion (MBBP) — the borough’s public beach club — has operated for more than a century of summers. I’ve favored...

Monmouth Beach-American Bicentennial — 49 years ago. In July 1976, the borough of Monmouth Beach joined in with the nation celebrating its 200th birthday...