Food Pantry Relocates to OLPH Church Basement

Details: Category: News; Published: 11 October 2018

olph pantry move 1 PHOTO: Students from area high schools assisted with the move.

HIGHLANDS – The food pantry at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church will be open Sunday for the first time after a brief closure to enable a move to new quarters. But the rapid reopening was only made possible thanks to more than 50 teenagers from several local high schools who poured time, energy, and enthusiasm into making the move.

Comprehensive Coastal Resilience Plan Announced During Summit at Monmouth University

Details: Category: News; Published: 10 October 2018

njdep coastal municipalities New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection will seek input from stakeholders and advice from coastal scientists and environmental leaders

TRENTON – During a summit today at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, Commissioner Catherine R. McCabe announced that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is launching work on a comprehensive plan to make coastal areas more resilient to the impacts of severe storms and sea-level rise.

The Coastal Resilience Plan will become a blueprint for protection of property, lives, infrastructure and natural environments by guiding policies, regulations, resources and funding.

Mass of Remembrance Honors Mater Dei Graduates

Details: Category: News; Published: 08 October 2018

mater dei father osborn PHOTO: Father Richard Osborn offers mass at St. Mary, Mother of God Church.

NEW MONMOUTH – More than 150 graduates, parents, and friends of deceased graduates of Mater Dei High School last month attended the annual Mass of Remembrance honoring more than 325 deceased graduates. administrators, faculty, staff and boosters who have died since the four-year high school’s first graduating class in 1965.

The Rev. Richard Osborn, parochial vicar of St. Mary, Mother of God Church, offered the mass, gave the welcome and addressed the crowd in a stirring homily about togetherness and friendship. Father Osborn highlighted the importance of friendship, quoting from the Biblical passage, “And Jesus wept,” when He learned of the death of His friend, Lazarus.

Halloween Fun at Brookdale Community College Performing Arts Center in October

Details: Category: Arts & Culture; Published: 08 October 2018

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Looking for some Halloween-themed family fun in Monmouth County throughout October?

Brookdale Community College’s Performing Arts Center Haunted Theater presents Aftermath – a terrifying trip through interconnected mazes haunted by creatures, phobias, and images ripped from your worst nightmares. Experience zombies, witches, sadistic clowns, dangerous inmates, psychotic doctors and other horrific creatures that inhabit this twisted dream world of hidden bunkers, abandoned hospitals, eerie woodlands and other frightening zones of terror on this 20-minute walk-through maze. Event dates are: October 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 & 27 from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. and October 14, 21 & 28 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Microbrewery Business is Hopping

Details: Category: News; Published: 04 October 2018

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In Virginia’s Loudoun County, a booming and affluent exurban community about 30 miles outside of Washington, D.C., 10 of the 12 breweries in business in 2016 opened their doors since 2012.

All of them can be defined as “craft breweries”, small and independent businesses that combine traditional brew styles with innovative ingredients.

Every one of the 50 states and just over a quarter of the nation’s 3,143 counties have at least one brewery.