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    Veni, Vidi, Scripto

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    Atlantic Highlands High School Baseball Team
    Muriel Smith
    • Apr 26
    • 1 min

    Atlantic Highlands High School Baseball Team

    A photo on loan to the Courier in the 1970s from MIke Cassone shows the 1938 Atlantic Highlands High School baseball team flanking...
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    A Very Happy Birthday
    Muriel Smith
    • Apr 7
    • 5 min

    A Very Happy Birthday

    Former Atlantic Highlands Mayor Helen Marchetti is celebrating her 97trh birthday today (April 7) at Care One at King James Care Center...
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    The Kavookjian Legacy
    Muriel Smith
    • Apr 5
    • 3 min

    The Kavookjian Legacy

    With a regionalization informational session set for 7p.m tonight at the Highlands Community Center, it brought back many happy memories...
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    Fireman's Field Dedication
    Muriel Smith
    • Apr 5
    • 1 min

    Fireman's Field Dedication

    It was Saturday, Oct. 1, 1949, when more than 3,000 residents, sports fan, politicians including Governor Alfred E. Driscoll all...
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    Rumrunners ... A Unique Lot
    Muriel Smith
    • Mar 16
    • 3 min

    Rumrunners ... A Unique Lot

    They were a unique lot. Rumrunning, bootlegging, and famous names in Highlands have always been a popular subject for reading and...
    603 views0 comments
    Politics Has Always Been a Messy Business
    Muriel Smith
    • Mar 15
    • 2 min

    Politics Has Always Been a Messy Business

    Today is Idus Martiae, the 74th day in the Roman calendar. Better known as the Ides of March, it was a day of religious observances in...
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    Henry Hudson Spring & More Stories from a Child’s History of Atlantic Highlands
    Muriel Smith
    • Feb 23
    • 2 min

    Henry Hudson Spring & More Stories from a Child’s History of Atlantic Highlands

    More stories from a Child’s History of Atlantic Highlands, written by the Social Studies Challenge class of Atlantic Highlands elementary...
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    Atlantic Highlands & the Indians
    Muriel Smith
    • Feb 22
    • 3 min

    Atlantic Highlands & the Indians

    Elizabeth K. Clarke was the sixth grade teacher at the Atlantic Highlands Elementary School in 1985, teaching the Social Studies...
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    Before Top of the East
    Muriel Smith
    • Jan 20
    • 1 min

    Before Top of the East

    The Monmouth County Archives is just one of the great resources we residents of Monmouth County have at our fingertips and County Clerk ...
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    The Mayor, the Chief, Sub Machine Guns ... OPSAIL '76
    Muriel Smith
    • Jan 13
    • 3 min

    The Mayor, the Chief, Sub Machine Guns ... OPSAIL '76

    It really started over dogs running loose; then it escalated to people weren’t bringing in their garbage cans. Next it was vehicles...
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    Here Comes the Judge
    Muriel Smith
    • Jan 13
    • 2 min

    Here Comes the Judge

    Ronald Horan was a Highlands native, the son of Frank and Vi Horan, an attorney, and a municipal court judge for more than 20 years,...
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    From the Hearths of Highlands
    Muriel Smith
    • Dec 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    From the Hearths of Highlands

    These were fun times for teenagers Kathy Smith, Maureen Black, and MIchelle Smith in 1972 when the three, all graduates of Our Lady of ...
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    “A Work of Engineering,” and “a Landmark of Progress.”
    Muriel Smith
    • Dec 20, 2021
    • 2 min

    “A Work of Engineering,” and “a Landmark of Progress.”

    Highlands has its Sea Bright Bridge that every kid had to drop from into the swift moving Shrewsbury River as a rite of passage. That was...
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    Highlands:  Don't Let History Pass You By
    Muriel Smith
    • Nov 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    Highlands: Don't Let History Pass You By

    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...
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    Atlantic Highlands ... Remember When?
    Muriel Smith
    • Nov 7, 2021
    • 4 min

    Atlantic Highlands ... Remember When?

    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 ...
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    Bobby Higgins V. The DMV
    Muriel Smith
    • Nov 4, 2021
    • 6 min

    Bobby Higgins V. The DMV

    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...
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    Conners Hotel | From the Start
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 26, 2021
    • 3 min

    Conners Hotel | From the Start

    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...
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    A Lesson from a 4th Grader
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 22, 2021
    • 3 min

    A Lesson from a 4th Grader

    All the talk about Critical Race Theory and teaching children in school about the differences, not the similarities among people is...
    146 views0 comments
    Redevelopment Can't Provide What Highlands is Missing
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 22, 2021
    • 6 min

    Redevelopment Can't Provide What Highlands is Missing

    They were different times in Highlands in the 1960s. People felt safer, apparently, because kids in a neighborhood could all play in the...
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    Solomon- The Fruit Man
    Muriel Smith
    • Oct 20, 2021
    • 4 min

    Solomon- The Fruit Man

    It was fresh fruit and vegetables they sold, but it was love, happiness and the thrill of old-fashioned marketing they brought with the...
    98 views0 comments
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