West Long Branch News

PISCATAWAY, N.J. For the second consecutive week and third time this season, Rutgers softball junior center fielder Jackie Bates was named to the American Athletic Conference Weekly Honor Roll, the league announced Monday.

JACKSON - A hush fell over the room last week as 13 Monmouth University psychology students knelt on the floor and waited for the subject of the day's lesson to arrive.

T hese days, 13 isn't at all an unlucky number for Jeff Blumenkrantz. The Long Branch native must play a total of five women and eight men in 90 intermissionless minutes in the off-Broadway musical "Murder for Two."

WEST LONG BRANCH - An entrepreneur finds opportunity in a crisis - Barbara Schechter, of Manalapan found a way to make money doing what she loves.

Two men were arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated following motor vehicle stops early Saturday morning, police said.

One of your friends changed something about her look, but you can't quite put your finger on it.

Jurors in Superior Court in Elizabeth found a West Long Branch man guilty of stalking a Union County teenager over three-and-a-half years.

Jurors in Union County have convicted a tennis coach from Monmouth County of stalking a boy.

WEST LONG BRANCH - Paul Brown has been president of Monmouth University for nearly a full school year.

Monmouth University President Paul Brown is embraced by Robert Sculthorpe, chair of the Monmouth University Board of Trustees, during the inauguration of Brown as the 8th president of private university in West Long Branch on Thu., April 10, 2014.

Seventeen-year-old Nina-Marie Amadeo of Middletown spent a December evening last winter refreshing the screen of her computer to see if she was one of the lucky 31 percent of applicants accepted into Wellesley College in Massachusetts, her first choice for higher education.

The team will no longer be playing its doubleheader on April 15 at Sacred Heart.

If you wanted to give a gift made here in Monmouth County, would you know what to pick out, or how to find it? To connect customers with craftspeople who identify themselves as truly local, the Monmouth County Division of Economic Development offers a free guide and a free annual exposition.

Far more New Jerseyans were familiar with the details of the Affordable Care Act at the end of the open enrollment period than they were at the beginning.

We have a big weekend in store here at the Jersey Shore. From a convention about the joys of hemp to live rock for a great cause, plus a few burlesque bombshells, there's something to make everyone happy this weekend.

West Long Branch Police Chief Lawrence L. Mihlon knows all too well how Narcan can save lives.

Ledger Live for April 2, 2014 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue - As the midnight deadline nears for health care insurance enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, the last two customers inside a Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield outreach van provide two very different stories of how Obamacare works for some people - and doesn't work for others.

Twice a week, David Silverman of Brick packs up his pots and pans, spices and spoons, and all the groceries he needs to make dinners for a family of six and drives to his client's home in West Long Branch.

You never can be sure where a leap of faith will take you. For childhood friends Holly Migliaccio and Shawn Kingsley, that leap launched them from the corporate world into the world of coffee, and so far it seems to have been a good choice: Their business venture, Rook Coffee Roasters, will expand to a fifth coffee bar this summer.

For the first time, a spelling bee was held at Knollwood School in Fair Haven to select a candidate for the "Spelldown" held each year at Monmouth University.