FORMER SEA BRIGHT MAYOR DIES

Maria Fernandes in 2008. (Click to enlarge)

Former Mayor Maria Fernandes of Sea Bright has died, redbankgreen has confirmed.

She passed away at about 10 a.m. Sunday at Monmouth Medical in Long Branch, where she’d been taken by borough emergency volunteers two nights ago for difficulty breathing, according to Councilman Read Murphy, who was on the EMS call.

We’ll have more details Monday.

Posted on February 26, 2012 at 3:21 pm, filed under Government, Politics, SEA BRIGHT and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment. Email this story.