Avery Grant Dishes About Joe Ferraina and John Pallone: Long Branch Mayor’s Race

Avery Grant, the Long Branch School Board Member who is running for mayor of Long Branch against incumbent Adam Schneider and Councilman John Pallone invited MMM into his home for an interview on Wednesday afternoon.

In the five minute clip above, Grant reveals how former Superintendent of Schools Joe Ferraina tried to get him to run for council on Pallone’s ticket. Grant said he refused because Pallone “doesn’t exhibit leadership.”   Grant said that Ferraina is a real leader, that he wanted Ferriana to be the candidate to challenge Schneider, but that the former superintendent couldn’t do so because of the scandal surrounding the school board’s $600,000 settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit against him.

Grant confirmed that Ferraina’s office was sound proof and had a fancy bathroom, as alleged in the “sex slave” lawsuit.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Super Pooper Caught At Holmdel High School

Dr. Thomas Tramaglini, the Super Pooper. photo via Kenilworth Public Schools

Dr. Thomas Tramaglini, 42, of Matawan, was charged by the Holmdel Police with Lewdness, Littering and Defecating in Public after the School Resource Officer spotted him taking a dump on the Holmdel High School track, according to multiple published reports.

Tramaglini is the Superintendent of Schools in Kenilworth in Union County. He was formerly the PreK-12 Chief Academic Officer in Keansburg. Read the rest of this entry »

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Casagrande joins U.S. State Department

Caroline Casagrande

Former Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande has taken a job in the United States State Department as a special advisor to Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Marie Royce.

As mandated by the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) works to build friendly, peaceful relations between the people of the United States and the people of other countries through academic, cultural, sports, and professional exchanges, as well as public -private partnerships, according to the bureau’s website. Read the rest of this entry »

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Greg’s List: Things to Do in Monmouth County This Weekend, May 4-6, 2018

By Greg Kelly

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Friday, May 4

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Center Players (Freehold) – MORE INFO
• Issei, He Say at NJ Repertory Theater (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
• Basie Mariachi Festival at Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• Grangies at Grange Playhouse (Howell) – MORE INFO
• Rehearsal for Murder by South Street Players (Spring Lake) – MORE INFO
• “Much Ado About Nothing” by Holmdel Theatre Company – MORE INFO
• Dancing at Lughnasa at Two River Theater (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• Spring-A-Ding-Ding Children’s Theatre at Monmouth U. (WLB) – MORE INFO

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Long Branch candidates finally debate

The candidates for Long Branch Mayor and Council all participated last night in a debate sponsored by The Link News and the League of Women Voters before an audience of voters, mostly supporters of one of the slates, in the auditorium of Long Branch High School.

Mayor Adam Schneider, Council President John Pallone, School Board Member Avery Grant, and their running mates all showed up for the third scheduled debate.  Pallone and his team skip the first two debates.  Schneider and Pallone are both running with a full slate of council candidates.  Grant is running with two council candidates.  Long Branch voters will elect a mayor and full five member council to lead the city next Tuesday, May 8.

Grant and Pallone have both previously run against Schneider. Read the rest of this entry »

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Video: Whale almost beached at Sandy Hook on Tuesday

Video via facebook courtesy of Larry Alter:

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Long Branch Mayor Adam Schneider makes his case for another term

Long Branch voters will elect and mayor and council next Tuesday, May 8th.  Adam Schneider, the mayor since 1990, is seeking a 8th term leading the City. Read the rest of this entry »

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Curley Threatened to Stab DiMaso

Disgraced Freeholder John P. Curley threatened to stab former Freeholder Serena DiMaso with a syringe, referred to DiMaso by an Italian slur,and made fun of an unspecified female County employee’s derriere, according to an Asbury Park Press report.

Curley also lunged at an employee, pointing in her face, and was overhead telling a third-party, “look at her a–,” “Who would want to sleep with her?” and “I wouldn’t touch her with a 40-foot pole,” according to app.com

If you call Curley at 732-683-8838 to demand that he resign, tell him you read about his disgusting conduct in the Asbury Park Press.

Last week at a Freeholder meeting, Curley told a resident who asked him about the allegations levied against him by former Assemblyman Michael Panter last month, that he does not respond to blogs.  So far, only MMM has reported on Panter’s letter. Read the rest of this entry »

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Neptune City Man Shot Dead While Driving On Route 18 In Colts Neck

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Lloyd Earl Sanders, 54, of Neptune City was pronounced dead from a gunshot wound after Colts Neck Police found his body in a 2009 Mercedes-Benz C350 that had crashed on Route 18, south of County Road 537 at around 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, according to an announcement by Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.

Colts Neck Police received a 9-1-1 call at 1:58 a.m. on Sunday morning April 29 reporting on single car crash on on Route 18 south where they discovered the driver, Sanders, deceased from an apparent gunshot wound.  A 52 year old passenger with non-life threatening injuries was transported to a local hospital where he was treated and released.  RSLmedia is reporting that the 52 year old passenger also suffered gunshot wounds. Read the rest of this entry »

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DiMaso calls on Menendez to resign

Assemblywoman Serena DiMaso (R13) called upon U.S. Senator Bob Menendez to “do the right thing” and resign.

“Now that Senate Ethics has confirmed that Senator Menendez broke federal law and exploited his office to help Dr. Melgen instead of helping New Jerseyans, he should do the right thing and resign from office,” DiMaso said in a press release this afternoon.

DiMaso pointed to the highlights of the four page letter of admonishment issued by the U.S. Select Committee on Ethic yesterday.

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