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Barbara Masterpalo and Rita Jurakovich were out for dinner with their respective significant others not too long ago when Jurakovich noticed Masterpalo's rather striking handbag — a deep leather satchel with a chainlike shoulder strap. "I said, 'That's a beautiful...

Keith Glass is a 56-year-old Red Bank-based pro basketball agent who's got some withering views about the state of the NBA, its players, and even the role played by people who do what he does for a living. He lays...

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Local Republicans Monday night disclosed the names of three possible replacements for Kaye Ernst, who quit her council seat earlier this month after little more than a year in office. But by the time Councilman John Curley identified the three...

Remember last September's mini tax rebellion, the one led by residents of South Street ticked off about their property tax bills? Well, the Southies and anyone else with gimlet eye for government fat and waste will get a chance to...

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Sad news: the Asbury Park Press is reporting that Debra Yuhasz, the Sea Bright woman badly injured in a fire that destroyed much of the Fountains condo complex on Feb. 5, has died. She was 47 years old and had...

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Whether they were its customers or not, book lovers of a certain bent had to have been disheartened to learn recently about the planned closing of Princeton’s Micawber Books, a 26-year-old store situated on historic Nassau Street opposite the immensely...

As expected, New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice James Zazzali's black robe came off at Brookdale Community College Thursday. And what was on display, in part, was the Rumson jurist's wit. “My wife said have a good day,” Zazzali told...

A 49-year-old Fair Haven woman was pulled from the Navesink last night after she fell through the river's ice in an effort to retrieve a wayward dog, the Asbury Park Press reports. Officer John Waltz responded to a report at...

To those familiar only with the crib notes of her biography, Nadine Goldsmith may be easy to misinterpret. A well-off Rumsonite, she was a fixture in charity-ball circles, and after she died of breast cancer in March, 2004 at age...

Today's Asbury Park Press has a breathtaking recap of how Sea Bright firefighters rescued Debra Yuhasz from the Fountains Condominiums fire early Monday morning. The 47-year-old woman was lying unconscious on the balcony of her second-floor unit when Capt. Joseph...

The badly burned victim of yesterday's spectacular Sea Bright fire was identified as 47-year-old Debra Yuhasz. Today's Press reports that she's in critical but stable condition at the St. Barnabas Burn Center in Livingston. At least 15 units at the...

Fair Haven's new borough administrator, hired last night by the Borough Council, is a 28-year-old woman with three years experience in municipal administration, today's Asbury Park Press reports. Mary Howell replaces Julie Horner-Kiezer, who left last month to become borough...

Tinton Falls officials are considering an ordinance that would require hotels and motels to make photo IDs mandatory for guest check-in — something, presumably, that most such establishments already require of at least one guest per room. But it would...

Some art requires solitude and study and the quiet wait for inspiration. But when a visitor asks Medy Quiroz about how she works, she drags a clattering easel into the middle of her kitchen floor, puts up a large half-finished...

The top two people at the Red Bank Parks & Recreation Department, whose names were curiously absent from the borough council reappointments list on Jan. 1, have gotten the seal of approval to remain in their positions. Director Bob Evans...

After just a year in Trenton, Red Bank's Jennifer Beck has announced she'll try to leap from the Assembly to the state Senate in November. According to a story in the Asbury Park Press, Beck said she'll run for the...