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...

60 years ago … While exploring my physician-father’s medical book collection at our home one day, I found an oddly titled one, The Practice...

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

Some 80 Christmas seasons ago — with war raging around the globe — a mother sat down and wrote a simple but powerful letter...

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...

$1,000 invested in 1965 = $33 million in 2025. My late friend and former neighbor in Monmouth Beach, James J. Maguire, worked on Wall...

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

13 years ago this month … It’s been more than a decade since the Monmouth Beach, Long Branch and Sea Bright area felt the...

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

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...

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...

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...

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