Tag: West Long Branch

There’s a reason it’s called March Madness. While there’s bracketology, pundits with odds and the usual suspects in every NCAA Tournament, you never know when a team might come out of nowhere and get themselves into the field of 68.

Ranked inside the Top 10 of every national poll, the Saint John Vianney Lady Lancers haven’t faced too much adversity during their 27-0 season. That all changed when McDonald’s All-American Zoe Brooks arrived at Monmouth University for the Shore Conference Tournament championship on crutches with a protective boot on her right foot.

For a restaurant which had only been open a few days, Sprig Market+Café showed a high degree of professionalism in the kitchen and provided warm, attentive service in the comfortable dining room. We will return soon to explore the menu further and, once again, escape the outside world.

Native plants are at the center of a holistic approach to the natural world that recognizes gardens as interdependent ecosystems of flora, insects and wildlife.

It’s lights, camera, action for a Port Monmouth Elementary School that has sat dormant since a March 2020 Middletown Township Board of Education vote shuttered the nearly century-old facility.

It’s still just a club sport, but there’s no denying the growth and potential of girls flag football.

WEST LONG BRANCH – Pioneering African American Army civilian scientist Walter S. McAfee is perhaps most famous for his participation in Project Diana, which allowed man’s first “contact” with the moon in 1946. However, McAfee was initially excluded from coverage of the event. Though that was later rectified, few people in the Garden State know his name today, despite the fact that he served the Army for 42 years, mostly stationed at Fort Monmouth in Eatontown or its sub-post, Camp Evans in Wall.

By Rich Chrampanis RICH CHRAMPANIS The Shore Regional field hockey team won its first Shore Conference title since...

WEST LONG BRANCH – The Monmouth University Board of Trustees elected its new slate of officers and four members last month, with...