Blood drive in Freehold on Thursday

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Assemblywoman Caroline Cassagrande is hosting a blood drive at her office at 35 West Main St. in Freehold on Thursday, October 15 from 2 p.m. till 6 p.m.  This the seventh consecutive year that Casagrande has hosted a blood drive in her district.

“The great thing about the Central Jersey Blood Center is that they serve our local hospitals as they treat premature babies, trauma victims and cancer patients” says Casagrande.  “All the blood donated, stays in our communities and helps a neighbor in need.”

More than a million new people are diagnosed with cancer each year. Many of them will need blood, sometimes daily, during their chemotherapy treatment. “Cancer patients are the primary recipients of blood transfusions” says Casagrande. “In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, consider a donation in the name of a loved one fighting that disease.”

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Smith, NJ Delegation Continue to Press for Transparency, Reform at NFIP

WASHINGTON, DC – At a Capitol Hill meeting hosted Oct. 7 by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), Dean of the New Jersey Congressional Delegation, with Roy Wright, Deputy Associate Administrator for Insurance and Mitigation at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a bipartisan group of NJ Members of Congress continued to press for equitable relief for… Read the rest of this entry »

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Asbury Park Zombie Walk 2015 -PHOTOS

Photos by Caitlin Brown

Thanks to John McGillion, owner of Johnny Mac’s House of Spirits,  the annual Asbury Park Zombie Walk survived another year.

The next Monmouth County Zombie Parade will be in Highlands on October 24 at 2PM.

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Marlboro Camp Counselor Gets PTI For Sexting Charges

Matthew Kleinstein. Photo via FelicianAthletics.com

Freehold, NJ- Robert Honecker, Esq. smiled broadly as he left Judge Ronald Lee Reisner’s courtroom at 9:10 a.m. on Friday morning, followed closely by his client Matthew Kleinstein and the Kleinstein family.

Judge Reisner was not on the bench. A reporter sat in the last row of the courtroom with a perplexed look on her face. Kleinstein, the former Marlboro Camp Counselor who pleaded guilty in August to 4th degree Cyber Harassment after sending images of his penis to four 11-13 female campers in his care the previous summer, had his sentencing hearing outside of the presence of the media.

It is a rare occurrence that Court proceedings start promptly at 9 a.m. when so scheduled.  If you’re summoned to Court at 9 a.m. and bring an attorney, chances are pretty good that you’ll be paying for an hour or two of his/her time to work on other cases from his/her phone and/or laptop computer.

Judge Reisner started his calendar promptly on Friday morning.  Maybe even early.  He dealt with the Kleinstein matter and then apparently left the bench as approximately 30 other defendants patiently waited in the courtroom for their sentencing hearings.

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Hornik Campaign Accuses Marlboro Republicans Of “Dirty Politics” For Proposing Recreation Department Reforms

There appears to be a race worth watching in Marlboro

The Democratic campaign of Marlboro Mayor Jonathan Hornik and Council Members Randi Marder and Michael Scalea has characterized their opponents’ plan to reform the Township’s Summer Camp as “cheap gutter politics.”

In statement promoted by Hornik on facebook and released on the JerseyShoreInsider blog (a site funded by Monmouth County Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal and Ocean County Democratic Chairman Wyatt Earp that has nothing to do with Snooki or The Situation), Hornik campaign manager Jon Evans accused Republican candidate for Mayor Ira Goldberg and Council candidates Sui Allex and John Dwyer of exploting the “unfortunate and serious incident” that occurred as a result of Matthew Kleinstein, while working as a Marlboro Camp Counselor, sending pictures of his penis to four 11-13 year old female campers in his care.

Councilman Scalea was a member of the Township’s Recreation Committee at the time the incident occurred.

Evans’s statement goes on to claim that the reforms the Republicans proposed are already in practice in the Township of Marlboro.  Evan’s states that the Republicans have no platform for improving Marlboro’s government.  Read the full statement (that Evans inexplicably did not send directly to MMM) here:

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Cops interrupt burglary at Middletown’s red store

MIDDLETOWN – Authorities are investigating the attempted burglary of store that was interrupted early Thursday morning. Some time before 4:15 a.m. on Thursday, police responded to The Red Store on the corner of Navesink and Monmouth avenues in the Navesink section of the township for a possible burglary in progress. Officers arrived at the scene and… Read the rest of this entry »

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More than $1B spent replenishing N.J. beaches over past 30 years

The nor’easter that churned over the region this week left eight-foot-tall cliffs in the dunes of North Wildwood. It carted away sand in Harvey Cedars and created steep dropoffs where a steel seawall has been constructed in a section of northern Ocean County battered during Hurricane Sandy. The state’s withered coastline highlights a battle Jersey Shore… Read the rest of this entry »

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Marlboro Republicans Propose Reforms To Protect Children

Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick, center-right, presents a campaign contribution to Council candidate Sui Allex, Mayoral candidate Ira Goldberg and Council candidate John Dwyer at the Bella Vista Country Club last month

Marlboro, NJ- The Marlboro Republican candidates for Mayor and Council responded to the news of a Township Camp Counselor pleading guilty to sexting photos of his genitalia to four 11-13 year old female campers with a four point proposal to reform the Recreation Department’s Summer Camp Program.

In a statement released this afternoon, Ira Goldberg, candidate for Mayor, and Council candidates Sui Allex and John Dwyer said they would implement the following reforms should they be elected on November 3rd:

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Deal reportedly scrapping restricted beach parking plan

DEAL — A raw deal for taxpayers who paid for a newly widened beach in this wealthy Jersey shore enclave now appears to be no deal at all. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection told The Associated Press on Tuesday night that officials in the borough of Deal said they were tabling an ordinance that… Read the rest of this entry »

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Greg’s List: Things to do in Monmouth County this weekend, October 9-11, 2015

By Greg Kelly

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Friday, Oct 9

• The Rainmaker by Center Players (Freehold) – MORE INFO
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at Allaire Village – MORE INFO
• Always … Patsy Cline at Algonquin Arts Theatre (Manasquan) – MORE INFO
• Bruce Springsteen: A Photographic Journey at Monmouth U (WLB) – MORE INFO
• Jersey Shore Ghost Tours (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• Seussical the Musical at Jersey Shore Arts Center Theater (Neptune) – MORE INFO
• Camp Evans Base of Terror (Wall Twp.) – MORE INFO
• A. Casola Farms’ Famous Fall Fest (Holmdel) – MORE INFO

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