For My Readers … As I continue to develop my website — mainly though posting old local photos backed with facts — I’ve reached...

Hospitals were sacred territory to my physician-dad. Clean and caring at a minimum; life transforming and medically heroic at their best. 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...

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

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Predicts “Near-Normal” Storm Season Living at the shore comes at a price. Wise lifelong residents know this. Natural forces of...

My physician-dad had plenty of doctor buddies, but only one was included in his bedside photograph collection when he died in March 2007. My...

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

Local Stories Worth a Look … Summer season on the Jersey Shore is here. Have a look at this “Summer of ’23” post and...

To a healthy & happy Summer of ’23 … The summer before my father began his medical school studies — over 80 years ago...

Every year around this time I think about my late father-in-law, James F. Norton, Jr. Each summer he would make a sojourn from Monmouth...

My siblings sometimes tell me that I tend to over-glorify my physician-dad and his life. Perhaps … but I’m a storyteller and my father...

In the Summer of 1968, during his prime as a practicing physician, my father was appointed to our local bank’s Advisory Board (then the...

’23 Monmouth Beach Municipal Budget: $9.9 Million In a time of high inflation — and even higher municipal spending — the borough’s financial team...

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

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