SANDY HOOK — Another beach at Sandy Hook has closed because of elevated bacteria levels. Gunnison Beach was open for sunbathing on Tuesday but beachgoers weren’t allowed in the water because of high bacteria levels, according to the Sandy Hook’s Facebook page. The closing comes as New Jersey is in the middle of a heat wave,… Read the rest of this entry »
Jersey Central Power & Light is still trying to win regulatory approval to spin off its transmission assets into a separate company. In an amended petition, the state’s second-largest electric utility is slightly modifying a previous proposal rejected earlier this year by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. In denying the spin-off, the board balked… Read the rest of this entry »By Greg Kelly
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Friday, July 29
By Muriel J. Smith
(photos Tricia Curtin and Nancy Zockoll)
Indeed, they really are all there, those classic American-made cars of the 1950s. They’re all over the well paved and not so well paved roads of Cuba, and most of them are taxis.
There are thousands of them, all brightly painted, the sun bouncing off shiny chrome; all with their windows down…pre-air conditioning days, remember…their interiors either plush or vinyl cleverly patched or taped to look good, and who knows what under the hoods to keep them purring, or growling gently as they navigate the streets. The cars presumably date back to the 1950s when they were new, Cuba and the USA were friends, and Cubans enjoyed a middle class status that enabled them to purchase foreign cars. For good reason, most chose American rather than Russian vehicles, though some of them were also available during ‘the special period,’ the time in the 1960s when Russia was the alleged friend of Cuba. The vehicles have been handed down from father to son, and with an embargo prohibiting the import of car parts, have been kept in running condition through ingenuity and a strange conglomeration of makeshift and re-made parts. Cuba is on good terms with Venezuela, so fuel for the vehicles is no problem. Nor do they spend a lot of time or effort on repairing windows that no longer rise or close, given those 90 degree sun-filled days.
But there’s so much more to Havana than cars.
Posted: July 26th, 2016 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cuba, Monmouth County News | Tags: Cuba, Five Days in Cuba, Monmouth County News, Muriel J. Smith, Muriel Smith, Nancy Zockoll, New Jersey, Red Bank Catholic High School, Tricia Curtin, U.S.-Cuba relations | Comments Off on Cuba: It’s more than cars!Maggie Moran, the Managing Director of the Asbury Park based Democratic consulting firm Kivvit and the wife of Belmar Mayor “Lawless Matt” Doherty, announced on facebook yesterday that she has donated to the reelection campaign of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Wasserman Schultz is the Chair of the Democratic National Committee until Friday. She announced her resignation after DNC emails that proved she rigged Hillary Clinton’s Democrat nomination for president were released. She was then named Honorary Chair of Clinton’s campaign.
That’s perfectly consistent with the Monmouth County Democrats’ ethos that it is OK to cheat and the ends justifies the means.
Posted: July 26th, 2016 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Mike Doherty, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democrats | Tags: #MonmouthStrong, 2016 Presidential politics, Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Dirty Doherty, Hillary Clinton, Lawless Matt Doherty, Maggie Moran, Monmouth County News, New Jersey | 1 Comment »By Muriel J. Smith
Perhaps the best solution to the problems between Cuba and the United States is to leave it up to the teenagers. Especially if they are teens like Catherine Curtin of Atlantic Highlands and Ava Zockoll of Bay Head. Because while negotiations are going on at high levels between the bureaucrats of both nations, and compromise and trade-offs are slowly making it easier for Americans to travel there, 16-year old Catherine, a junior at Red Bank Catholic High School designed a week long stay in Cuba’s capital to interact with Cuban teens on the volleyball court. Eager to join her on the expedition were RBC’s girls’ volleyball team captain Zockoll, Ava’s mother, Nancy, and Catherine’s parents, Dan and Tricia Curtin. And me. The Curtins asked me to accompany them on the trip so I could report it for newspapers and magazines.
Life is certainly good.
Posted: July 25th, 2016 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cuba, Monmouth County News | Tags: Ava Zockoll, Catherine Curtin, Cuba, Dan Curtin, Five Days in Cuba, Monmouth County News, Muriel J. Smith, Muriel Smith, Nancy Zockoll, Red Bank Catholic High School, Tricia Curtin, U.S.-Cuba relations | Comments Off on Five days in Cuba
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Two people have been killed and more than a dozen shot at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida, authorities said. As many as 17 people have been shot in the early Monday shooting at Club Blu, police Capt. Jim Mulligan said. Three people have been taken into custody and there are two… Read the rest of this entry »
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who faced increasing calls to step down in the wake of the DNC email leak, says she will resign from her position after taking part in this week’s convention. Wasserman announced her decision in a statement released on Sunday afternoon, though she made no mention… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: July 24th, 2016 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Bernie Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee, Democratic National Convention, DNC, Hillary Clinton, Rigged nomination | 1 Comment »
CLEVELAND — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Friday night chose Tim Kaine as her running mate, bypassing U.S. Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and two Hispanic members of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet. Clinton, who next week will become the first woman nominated for president by a major U.S. political… Read the rest of this entry »
MONMOUTH BEACH — Are those sharks or rays swimming along the shore in Monmouth Beach and Belmar? The answer to that question can’t seem to be agreed upon among those in the ocean research community . Police received a call Tuesday when residents spotted dorsal fins less than 10 feet from shore in Monmouth Beach. An… Read the rest of this entry »
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