The Coaster

By JOANNE L. PAPAIANNI
The sailing program at the Belmar Marina, run by the Friends of Belmar Harbor since 2000, has grown into a thriving and respected club.
During the summer months, about 400 youngsters learn the basics of sailing, while 150 families, as club members, use the sailboats for family outings.
Neptune City Mayor Thomas Arnone [...]

By TOM CARDINALE
A Monmouth County representative for the New Jersey State Department of Youth and Family Services says the area is in desperate need of foster families and is urging residents to get involved.
“My job here is I’m the recruiter for adoptive and foster parents,” Jo Pohl said.
Her list of foster and adoptive families, however, [...]

School Superintendent Helen Payne, who helped facilitate the building of the new addition for the school.
Story and Photos by TOM CARDINALE
Students at Avon Elementary School had a little more room and some new amenities to enjoy at their school with the opening of a new addition this week.
Work on the addtion to the elementary school [...]

By DON STINE
Coaster Photo by Dave Christopher: Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa speaks to Asbury Park residents this week at the site where a city man was shot to death on Christmas Eve.

By JOANNE L. PAPAIANNI
A homeless man was arrested Christmas Eve in Neptune City for ransacking and burglarizing a Tucker Drive home.
When the resident of the home returned from being out he found his home ransacked with the intruder, later identified as Kenneth Lynch, 43, still on the premises.
Lynch fled and the resident chased him along [...]

By TOM SHORTELL

The holiday season is a common time for families to gather together. However, with each family comes its own traditions.
For Kathy Gregg of Ocean Township, those traditions lie in her familys German roots.
On Christmas Eve, her extended family of about 30 people gathers at in-laws home. There, her two daughters, Kaitlin and [...]

A retired Deal Police Officer, who currently works in the Monmouth County Prosecutors Office, has been arrested on two counts of endangering the welfare of a child for possessing and distributing child pornography.
John B. Gregg, Jr. 54, of Avon, was arrested Sept. 26 by members of the prosecutors office and the New Jersey State Police [...]

By JOANNE L. PAPAIANNI
Most shore towns saw increases in beach revenues for the 2007 season, with Bradley Beach and Asbury Park showing the biggest increases.

This was the scene at the Asbury Park beachfront Sunday of Labor Day weekend.

In Bradley Beach Borough Administrator Phyllis Quixley said it was a banner year.
We were about $150,000 over what [...]