☘️  A superb Irish gal leaves us on St. Patrick’s Day … Sheila Marie (Kelly) Sharemet — strong in mind, body and soul —...

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...

My early days at Monmouth College were potentially very gloomy times. By 1981 my home life was a bit rough. I’d lost two young...

While exploring my physician-father’s medical book collection at our home one day, I found an oddly titled one, The Practice of Hypnosis in Anesthesiology...

A grand glance of old Monmouth Beach … She is the borough’s “artist-in-residence” — Gail H. Gannon — now in perpetuity upon her passing...

During his prime years as a practicing physician, my father served on our local bank’s Advisory Board (the Monmouth Beach bank has had several...

In today’s challenging times it’s uplifting to reflect on how two different men found a friendship. In following my dad’s medical career I learned...

His great-great grandfather lived here — Abraham Lincoln — America’s greatest President* — had Monmouth County family roots. According to A. Lincoln, a very...

It’s a moment seared into my memory forever — the morning when my physician-father awoke me to tell of a terrible accident. My 19-year-old...

I was a huge fan of the hit AMC-TV series, Better Call Saul. That fantastic cable show — which is nearly as good as...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of my older sister, Alice Ward Kelly, R.N. She would be a senior citizen now...

It was about 80 Christmas seasons ago, with war raging around the globe, when a mother sat down and wrote a simple but powerful...

When my father was in his late 40s he ran for a seat on the Monmouth Beach School Board of Education. As if he...

For over 20 years of my life, our family of 10 lived in a large Tudor house about a quarter mile from the ocean...

It’s been more than a decade since the Monmouth Beach, Long Branch and Sea Bright area felt the awful wrath of Mother Nature. It...

Experts Predict “Extremely Active” Storm Season … Living at the shore comes at a price. Wise lifelong coastal residents know this. It’s understood that...