"Once made equal to man, Woman becomes his superior" -Socrates

The Highlands Historical Society did what it does best last night. It gave the opportunity for everybody to get on a zoom call and tell...

Any of the old-timers in and around Atlantic Highlands will tell you of the ‘good old days,’ the amusement park at the river beach, the ...

If you lived in Highlands in the 1970s, 80s and beyond, then you knew Bob Higgins. If you lived on the hill in Highlands in those...

This article was first published in the Atlantic Highlands Herald in July 2016 One doesn’t have to live in Highlands or even the Bayshore...

All the talk about Critical Race Theory and teaching children in school about the differences, not the similarities among people is...

They were different times in Highlands in the 1960s. People felt safer, apparently, because kids in a neighborhood could all play in the...

It was fresh fruit and vegetables they sold, but it was love, happiness and the thrill of old-fashioned marketing they brought with the...

She wasn’t a politician, a banker, a religious leader, a grocery store owner. But she was a huge influence on my life as a young mother....

It’s been said that Freeholder/County Commissioner Lillian G. Burry is a woman ahead of her time. And well she may be, judging by this...

It was 77 years ago this week that the Beacon Hill Golf Clubhouse burned in an early morning fire that attracted hundreds of residents...

Writing about Jimmy Egidio, one of Atlantic Highlands’ great former police chiefs, and Bettie Jane and Vinnie Shea, a couple who fostered...

While I was associate editor, later editor of The Courier in the 1970s and 1980s, we often asked young college students to cover...

Writing has never been work for me because I enjoy it so much, and had great English, French and Latin teachers in high school who also...

Looking back over some of the millions, yes, literally millions, of words I wrote for The Courier over nearly a quarter of a century,...

It was the winter of 1976, and in addition to Bahrs, the Alpine Manor and Sonny and Evelyn Vaughan’s Stowaway Hotel on the corner of...

In the 1960s and 1970s, The Garden State Arts Center had entertainers who performed three, four, five or seven nights a week, staying in...

By Muriel J Smith Freehold Transcript, August 2018 Even before the American Revolution, the name Scudder was highly revered and respected...

Ah, the political parties definitely took sides in deciding local issues, but they did it with courtesy and politeness in the old days of...

In the early 1960s, when the Long Branch Daily Record was a popular newspaper in the Bayshore and Dottie Grosser was the editor, I had a...

My first byline in The Courier was on January 4, 1968. I had written for the paper for six months or so, and had a lot of stories about...