Tommy Ptak – 58 Years and the Pain Continues
The whole town turned out to surround the Ptak family with love, prayers and tears 58 years ago when word reached the Highlands family...
Atlantic Highlands Mayor Richard Stryker
Atlantic Highlands Mayor Richard Stryker put out monthly Mayor’s reports when he was the mayor in the 1970s, highlighting the many good things about...
It Was Stormy in ’40
Stormy A blizzard that stuck the east coast from Virginia to Boston in February of 1940 caused several headlines in local newspapers, but...
William Cullen Bryant’s America
Long before it officially became the Borough of Highlands in 1900, Highlands was well known as the part of Middletown that drew tourists and...
Murder in Highlands
Murder Ironically, a physician, a former US Representative and New Jersey Governor responsible for the Newell Act, regarded as the forerunner of the US...