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Two River Times - The Two River Times is a weekly • 16th May 2025

Remarkable Life of Geraldine Thompson Inspires Book by Brookdale Professor - Two River Times

‘Mrs. Thompson Saves the Day’ – and Jane Scimeca Tells the Tale Geraldine Thompson is pictured on the grounds of Brookdale Farm, which she gifted to Monmouth County and is the site of Thompson Park in Lincroft. COURTESY JANE SCIMECA By Eileen...

Two River Times - The Two River Times is a weekly • 11th April 2025

Pysanky for Healing - Two River Times

The Ukrainian art of Easter egg decorating is explored in an Atlantic Highlands workshop By Eileen Moon ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS – On Saturday, March 30 – the first warm day of the newly hatched spring – an adventurous group of men and women...

Two River Times - The Two River Times is a weekly • 21st June 2024

CNN’s Alisyn Camerota Pens ‘Love Letter to Shrewsbury’ - Two River Times

SHREWSBURY – Shrewsbury Borough Hall was full last Friday night as old friends and former neighbors of CNN broadcast journalist Alisyn Camerota welcomed her back to her hometown. Camerota visited Shrewsbury on a book tour supporting her new memoir,...

Two River Times - The Two River Times is a weekly • 14th December 2023

A Life Well-Lived: Joan Ellis Writes Her Memoir - Two River Times

When former Two River Times film critic Joan Ellis enrolled in a memoir writing class at Project Write Now (PWN) in Red Bank a few years ago, she took a step that would ultimately lead to some life-altering, multigenerational friendships and a...

Two River Times - The Two River Times is a weekly newspaper about life in Monmouth County, NJ, sold by subscription and on newsstands Friday. • 28th July 2023

Community and Dedication Don’t Come Second at First Avenue Playhouse - Two River Times

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS – Outside the First Avenue Playhouse, this little town on the bay is alive with the pleasures of a summer Sunday. Strollers on their way for ice cream at Nicholas. Boat owners motoring toward the marina, tugging their vessels behind...

Two River Times - The Two River Times is a weekly newspaper about life in Monmouth County, NJ, sold by subscription and on newsstands Friday. • 11th May 2023

Monmouth County Jewish Heritage Museum Features Exhibit on Sigmund Eisner - Two River Times

FREEHOLD – The building that is now home to the Galleria retail and restaurant complex holds a significant place in the history of Red Bank. In the early years of the 20th century, Sigmund Eisner established the Sigmund Eisner Company, a small...

The Two River Times • 13th October 2022

Local Red Cross Volunteers Are Helping Hurricane Ian Survivors | Two River Times

When scary things happen in life, the creator of the beloved children’s television show, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” once advised, look for the helpers. There are always helpers, Fred Rogers told his listeners young and old. And when Hurricane Ian...

The Two River Times • 9th September 2022

9/11 Memorial: A Family’s Sweet Way to Honor Their Grandfather | Two River Times

SHREWSBURY – Twenty-one years after 9/11, those whose lives were altered forever that day live in the bittersweet, passing on a legacy of love and heartbreak, pride and persistence to their children and their children’s children. For Jeff Hemschoot...

Two River Times - The Two River Times is a weekly newspaper about life in Monmouth County, NJ, sold by subscription and on newsstands Friday. • 20th January 2022

Norman Seldin: You Don’t Know Him - Two River Times

In his 2021 musical autobiography, “You Don’t Know Me,” musician, composer, entrepreneur and Two River native Norman Seldin chronicles a life saved by his Steinway piano. A musical prodigy impatient with the limitations of the classroom, Seldin was a...

The Two River Times • 9th December 2021

A Tradition Continues on a Different Continent

It was just after 4 p.m. when I unscrewed the top on a bottle of whiskey.

The Two River Times • 9th June 2021

Atlantic Highlands Cinema Another Casualty of the Pandemic | Two River Times

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS – A call to the movie line at Atlantic Highlands Cinema was still being answered by a cheery recorded voice announcing showings for “The War with Grandpa,” “Come Away” and “Let Him Go” last Monday, but the writing was already on the...

24th February 2021

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15th December 2020

The Human Cost of COVID | Two River Times

With the holidays on the horizon and a third COVID-19 surge barreling across the nation, Monmouth County Freeholder Director Thomas A. Arnone and Freeholder Deputy Director Susan M. Kiley issued a press release Tuesday urging county residents to slow...

11th December 2020

Food Pantries Working Overtime To Help Those In Need | Two River Times

From her office window in Neptune, Kim Guadagno watched as a woman approached the entrance to Fulfill, the nonprofit organization that provides food and other critical support to some 300 food pantries in Monmouth and Ocean counties. As the woman got...

The Two River Times • 27th July 2020

20 Years of Caring: The Parker Family Health Center Celebrates a Milestone | Two River Times

RED BANK – On Wednesday, July 29, the Parker Family Health Center will mark its 20th year of providing cost-free health care to residents without adequate income or health insurance. Over the past two decades, the clinic at 211 Shrewsbury Ave. has...

The Two River Times • 27th June 2020

There's a Breath of Spring (and New Names) for Two Rumson Restaurants

Two restaurants with deep roots in the elegant town of Rumson are reinventing themselves for a new generation of diners.

The Two River Times • 23rd June 2020

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, but Holiday Express Brought Her Back | Two River Times

RED BANK – On Monday, Dec. 16 and Tuesday, Dec. 17, Holiday Express will present its annual benefit concerts at the Count Basie Center for the Arts. The concerts help to fund the visits that the nonprofit organization’s musicians and other volunteers...

The Two River Times • 16th May 2020

COVID-19 Brings Echoes of 1918 Pandemic | Two River Times

In 1918, as World War I was raging in Europe, an invisible enemy had already begun an invasion much closer to home – an invasion that would prove far deadlier than the war itself. Early that year, a new strain of influenza had begun making its...

The Two River Times • 16th May 2020

Know How to Sew? Sewing Machines Whirring to Make Medical Masks | Two River Times

With some medical facilities in New Jersey reporting dangerously low levels of respiratory masks and other critical equipment, a grassroots effort to provide some homegrown protection to those on the front lines has sprung up in the Two River...

28th December 2019

A Lusty Christmas Eve Tradition | Two River Times

HIGHLANDS – Some people celebrate Christmas Eve with one last trip to the mall. Others are all done by then and enjoying making cookies, wrapping gifts or watching one of the Hallmark Christmas movies that always have a happy ending. Then there’s The...