The public hearing on an ordinance to rename the Center Avenue park as Helen Marchetti park will be held at the October 12 meeting of the Mayor and Council, after being introduced as the last meeting by Councilman Brian Dougherty and unanimously approved.
Dougherty, who has been a next-door neighbor of the former Mayor for many years, introduced the ordinance and noted the park is on the same street and two blocks away from where the nonagenarian lived her entire life with the exception of a few years.
Dougherty noted Mrs. Marchetti was born in the house and was always “the fiercest defender of Atlantic Highlands” and noted that “no one ever loved Atlantic Highlands more than Helen Marchetti.”
The former Mayor, the first woman to serve as mayor of the Borough, died Sept. 19 at the age of 98.
In celebration the anniversary this month, EMACC has issued an invitation to four networking events in October to keep businesses and the public more aware of what EMACC is all about.
Each event fee is $19.28 celebrating the founding year of the Chamber. Interested persons and companies can discover the benefits of Chamber membership and meet the members of the EMACC community and Board of Directors.
Jennifer Eckhoff, Executive Director of EMACC, encourages and welcomes meetings with the EMACC community who can assist a business in expanding its business connections . “We look forward to meeting you in October as we network and grow together. Now is the time to join a Chamber with 95 years of history and success supporting the eastern Monmouth County business community.,” the director said.
New members who join between October 1 and October 31, 2023 will receive three free membership months, and complimentary administration fee. In addition, the first ten new EMACC members will receive a RADIO CAMPAIGN from THE BOSS 107.1 valued at over $2,050. For more details, visit EMACC.org
Upcoming networking events for this month include the October 11 Business Networking Breakfast at River Café at 8am – 9:30am . Topic is “Forge Relationships and Fuel Business Growth Networking Event” sponsored by David M. Muldowney, Jr. CPA. Registration for the event is available at Business Networking Breakfast
On October 14, the Women In Business and Health & Wellness Family Fun Fun/Walk will be held at
Thompson Park, Lincroft with a 9 am registration and / 10 am start in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month! The Alternative Board (TAB) is the sponsor of this event with the charity benefactor the Monmouth Medical Center Jacqueline M. Wilentz Comprehensive Breast Center.
Oct. 19, EMACC’s Next Generation Networking Event will be at No Limits Café, and an opportunity to network and celebrate EMACC’s Next Generation Charity Organization for 2023!
The 4pm – 7pm. Event is sponsored by Casale Jewelers and Provident Bank.
Oct. 24, 2023: The Business After Hours Networking Event will be at Monmouth Day Care Center from 6 pm to 8 pm. Through October 24, Nissan City of Red Bank and EMACC will host a toy drive for children ages 3 months to 5 years to benefit Monmouth Day Care Center
” The older we get, the more we forget,” the Reverend Stanley Lukaszewski told graduates, friends and family of Mater Dei High School during the annual Mass if Remembrance for deceased administration, faculty and graduates of the former New Monmouth High School Saturday.
Better known as Father Stas, who served as associate pastor of St. Mary’s Church 38 years ago, the retied priest was celebrant and homilist during the Mass of Remembrance which honored staff and alumni from the years 1965 through 2015.
Father said the questions is more “Will we be forgotten?” as he recalled all those listed in the necrology who have “influenced our lives,” from the founder of the high school, Monsignor Robert T. Bulman through teachers, friends, and classmates, in many cases two generations of the same families.
Remembering amusing and happy stories about some of the teachers who have been on the faculty at Mater Dei, Father Stas recalled how they “touched our lives” and reminded all at the mass that “we must remember to remember” them.
Mari Campanella Kovach, class of 1978, and committee members Cathy Daniels, class of 1979 and Tom Dooley, the first graduating class of 1965, plan the annual even each year after it was started by the late Thomas C. “TC” Murray, a popular history teacher at Mater Dei for many years.
Alumnae participated in all facets of the mass, with Steven McCarthy, Class of 1974 and Christopher Begley, class of 1978 offering the readings, Kovach offering the Prayer of the faithful, and Maureen Delepine the parent of several Mater Dei graduates, Norma Delepine, class of 1975, and MaryAnn Tomasello Zimmerman, Class of 1972, presenting the gifts during Mass.
McCarthy, Begley and Susan Moore Elliott, class of 1979, served as Eucharistic ministers.
Prior to mass, Jim Shaw, class of 1976, provided bag pipe music in front of St. Mary’s for arriving guests. Kerrin McCarthy Regan, lass of 2011 was cantor and Daniels, Maria Miele Skribner, class of 1983, Annmarie Golding McCarthy, class of 1980, Judy Grandinetti Vogt, class of 1976 and Mary Caruso Corr, Class of 1978, all served on the hospitality.
Refreshments were served following mass to enable guests to continue to renew friendships and thank others for the influence they have had on their lives.
Before the Mass ended, the complete list of all administrators and alumni who are on the Necrology list were read by John Anderson, Ellen Cox, Dr. Ken Dugan and Tom Dooley, class of 1965, Steve Muscarella, Class of 1968, Begley, Pat Ryan class of 1982, and Daniels, as well as parent Muriel J. Smith, whose daughter, Kathy was in the class of 1974.
After Monsignor Bulman, late administrators at Mater Dei, remembered at the mass were the founding principal, Mother Bede, followed by principals the Reverend William, Lynch, S.J. John V. Lonergan, Sister Mary Hugh, Frank Poleski and Frank Outwater, assistant principal as well as 107 other former faculty members in addition to the alumni.
Gregg Reidy, class of 1994, was the only alumni who died in the September 11, 2011 attack on the country.
Families wishing to have the others who are deceased and graduated from Maer Dei included in the necrology for future remembrances are invited to contact Kovach at mari.kovach@GTSLLC.com
The first of the two Night Climbs of the Twin Lights has been changed from tomorrow, Friday, September 29, to Saturday, September 30.
Sponsored by the Twin Lights Society, the climbs are being offered from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday night, to take advantage of the vantage point to se the sun setting and the moon rising from either or both of the towers at the Twin Lights in Highlands. The event, which includes a $5 charge for climbing the tower, is a fund-raising event for the Historical Society.
Predictions of continued rain and heavy clouds for Friday night make it more advantageous to postpone the full moon event until the following night, when it is expected the moon will be more visible in the evening hours to see .
There will also be another Night Climb Full Moon sighting offered by the Twin Lights Society for the full moon on Saturday, October 28, also from 4 to 8 p.m.
Whether voters were for or against regionalization without Sea Bright is not really what will make the difference since Tuesday’s election. It’s what is going to happen next. It’s all in the details.
And every voter in both Highlands and Atlantic Highlands should always be reminded, whether he or she likes it nor…. they all let 20 percent….one out of every five…..voters in their town make the decision. It’s all in the details.
So if you voted and are not happy with the results, keep following the issue and be informed in future votes.
If you voted and are happy with the results, accept the blame when teacher contracts start to be negotiated and taxes go up….without Sea Bright’s money coming in. It’s all in the details.
Teachers in all three schools will be under a new contract which of course is based on the highest contract right now…no teacher can be, nor should be, expected to work at less income simply because of an election. It’s all in the details.
If you did not vote at all, don’t complain, don’t cheer…just remember you chose to let one out of every five of your neighbors make the choice for you. It’s all in the details.
Was there misinformation put out there by the Friends of Regionalization? Of course there was. Even the Commissioner of Education made it clear that it simply is not true that the K-12 regionalization had to be approved before Sea Bright could join.
The law passed earlier this year was specifically written and passed just so towns like Sea Bright could be involved in a regionalization. So those door hangers put out by the Friends didn’t quote correct information either because they were not informed or they intentionally printed a lie.
Was literature and the urge to vote YES distributed to parents dropping off kids at school passed out to them Tuesday morning? Sure it was.
Isn’t that against school board policy to allow any electioneering on school property?
The statement that “the students will not notice any difference” is kind of silly in itself. If they won’t see any differences, why make a change and say it’s for educational purposes?
If you can share educators at all levels and lots of other things now, why couldn’t the school boards simply agree to share even more? And why has it not been done in the past? It’s all in the details.
Many people are wondering whether it was intentional or accidental that the wall printing behind the superintendent when she is being interviewed before a TV camera was visible and not very complimentary… Rather unprofessional and shocking for someone who apparently takes such care in being sure every last detail is perfect. It’s all in the details.
Did the Commissioner of Education interfere with the election? It certainly appears so.
She sent a letter which was made highly public saying she dismissed Oceanport’s complaint against Sea Bright leaving their district.
Why did she not announce that last July?
Why wait until hours before the election to announce it at a time when many people had already voted? Would knowing that have made any difference in the vote?
No one will ever know.
But Oceanport, and Shore Regional, still have their appeal of that complaint in front of the appellate court. So what do you think? Is an appellate judge going to go against the Commissioner’s decision and say the lawsuit against Sea Bright can continue?
Do you think the Appellate Judge will make it seem, if he upholds the complaint against Sea Bright, that the Commissioner of Education of the State of New Jersey was simply erratic or whimsical?
The vote is over. It has been expensive, time consuming, divisive.
Once the vote is determined to be official, everyone should work together to make it worth everything it has cost. Hopefully, Sea Bright will still want to join the new regional district.
Hopefully, the two feasibility studies already completed and recommending a Sea Bright/Highlands/Atlantic Highlands regionalization “as quickly as possible” will still be used.
Hopefully, none of this has to wait until the new Board approved Tuesday takes over, which won’t be until July of 2024.
James T. Clancy was presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Andrew Johnson for his bravery and actions during the Battle of Vaughan Road in Virginia.
But later research shows that there is no apparent proof it was actually James T. Clancy who shot the Confederate General, the action which many believe contributed greatly to the Union victory at that site.
All the same, Sgt. Clancy bought bravely during the Civil War and went on to help as a civilian during Cuba’s War for Independence.
Captain James T. Clancy is also one of the 312 Medal of Honor recipients listed as Lost in History…those recipients whose burial places remain unknown. The Congressional Medal of Honor Society continues its search for information concerning these burial places and invites anyone with any information to contact them to aid in their search.
Clancy was born in 1833 in Albany, New York but joined the First New Jersey Cavalry when he was 30 in October 1863. He joined the Army at Camden, so New Jersey is credited with his residency.
The following year, serving with C Company of the Cavalry, he is credited with killing Confederate Brigadier General John Dunovant, the leader of the Confederate cavalry that was charging the front line of a fortified Union position. The Union cavalry, under the command of Brig. General Henry Dvies, was fighting on foot, and slaying the General of the opposing force led the Confederates in disarray, and a delay in their continued attacks. That gave Gen. Davies time to love his men to a better position and the ultimate Union victory at Vaughan Road.
The following year, President Johnson awarded the soldier the Medal.
Sgt. Clancy was commissioned as an officer and mustered out with his regiment in July 1865. He then went to Cuba working with the United States giving military aid to Cuba during its first War of Independence, the Ten Years War. He died in Medios Cuba in December 1870, and his burial site is unknown.
During the 20th century, Historian Richard J. Sommers reached a conclusion through his research that there is doubt about Clancy’s firing the fatal shot. There is evidence he said that shows the claim of that action was a fabrication of Sgt. Clancy’s regiment’s commanding officer, Major Myron Beaumon, in his efforts to glorify his unit and thence himself.
He is nonetheless deserving of the honor, was commissioned a Captain after the war and continued to provide aid to neighboring Cuba during their war with Spain.
Captain Clancy’s Medal of Honor reads:
Shot the Confederate Brig. Gen. John Dunovant dead during a charge, thus confusing the enemy and greatly aiding in his repulse.
More Articles on New Jersey Medal of Honor Recipients HERE
With about a one out of every five registered voters casting ballots at the polls, both Highlands and Atlantic Highlands by overwhelming majorities both voted to enable their three school districts to combine into one.
Although not all mail in ballots and provisional ballots will not be counted for several more days, the affirmative votes on the ballot in both boroughs show the majority of voters favor the idea of enabling Highlands and Atlantic Highlands boards of education to be eliminated and the Henry Hudson Regional school district will be a K-12 school district with one nine member board of education.
There will be more to report once the vote is complete and declared official.
Well, it’s time! After all the talk, all the figures, all the truths and lies, all the innuendos, and so much, sadly, division cropping up once again between those two wonderful towns of Atlantic Highlands and Highlands, it’s time for a vote on the question of regionalization. Vote No.
The polls are open in the usual places in both towns, not early in the morning as for regular elections, but from noon to 8 p.m. In Highlands, districts will vote in both the fire house and the VFW post home as usual; in Atlantic Highlands, everyone will vote at the Charles Hesse building at St. Agnes School as usual.
It’s an important vote, since it will impact the education of students and the cost to taxpayers forever in the future. That’s why it is essential not only to cast a ballot, but to cast it with knowledge and understanding of all the questions around it. Vote No
If you do not know the answers to all of the questions, if you do not know the impact of a change, then it has to be a vote of NO in the polling booth Tuesday.
Why would you vote to change something if you don’t know what effect it will have?
If you think approving it means Sea Bright will become part of the school district, than a NO vote at the polls on Tuesday is essential. Voting for a change Tuesday DOES NOT mean Sea Bright will be included.
If you want to see Sea Bright bring in a few million dollars to help offset your taxes, then you have to vote NO in the polling booth Tuesday. This question being decided Tuesday DOES NOT include Sea Bright nor give any promise Sea Bright and its millions will ever be included.
Highlands votes, in particular. If you don’t want to see your town in the future being in the same predicament Sea Bright is in now….paying tens of thousands of dollars more than your neighboring town simply because you have fewer students in the schools. Then vote NO in the polling booth Tuesday.
Highlands voters, do you even know how much debt the Atlantic Highlands elementary school has now?
Do you know if you vote for change, that means you will then be shouldering HALF of their debt? Then vote NO at the polling booth Tuesday.
Right now, the schools in both towns are run under one superintendent. And the three school boards just voted a couple of months ago to keep the same superintendent in charge for at least the next three years. She gets upwards of $180,000 a year to do her job.
That will not change, no matter whether you vote aye or nay. But you might want to wonder whether she is doing a great job when you consider that at Henry Hudson alone, more than 35 employees, mostly teachers, have quit or retired. Unless you want to give her even more control, vote NO at the polls Tuesday.
It’s that superintendent who has been leading the charge to give an affirmative vote on Tuesday, a vote which will keep her taxes the same in her hometown of Oceanport. The lawyers are saying there is no conflict in her advocating voting now and excluding Sea Bright and keeping her own taxes stable in Oceanport is not a conflict.
She has never has promised to work or advocate letting Sea Bright in…now or in the future! So if you want to see Sea Bright come into the district with its millions of dollars, vote NO at the Polls on Tuesday. That leaves it open for voters to make the decision in the near future.
What will change is whether there will be three boards or one board. A yes vote will reduce it to one board overseeing all three schools. So it will save voters the cost of one secretary….two schools already share one.
What’s stopping all three from sharing the position now?
The schools already cost share on so much. Why can’t they share on so much more right now? It doesn’t take wiping out a couple of boards of education to agree to share costs.
Isn’t that something the superintendent should have been advocating, promoting and putting into effect all along? A NO vote at the polls Tuesday will give the three boards the opportunity look at the whole picture themselves and find other ways to cost share. It’s their tax dollars, not the superintendent’s.
A NO vote at the polls Tuesday will give every educator, every taxpayer, every parent, everyone interested in the education of our youth the opportunity to get the CORRECT and HONEST answer to all the questions before changing anything.
Change for the sake of change accomplishes nothing. A NO vote at the polls on Tuesday is essential if you want the time to learn more, to let the voters decide the future, to keep things stable until those experts who have all UNANIMOUSLY said Sea Bright should be part of Highlands and Atlantic Highlands schools are listened to and followed. A NO vote will give the public the opportunity to vote on listening to the experts…and doing it as soon as possible.
A NO vote at the polls on Tuesday keeps the opportunity alive to follow what all the experts say should happen as soon as possible, what the new state law was specifically created to do, namely enable regionalization with Sea Bright, and common sense to take effect.
So what do a Mayor, a Council president, two authors, a teacher, a Historical Society president and a historic society hard working woman who loves her town have in common? They’re all hanging with Joshua Huddy in Highlands!
They’re all going to be on stage Wednesday night, Sepember 27, at 7 p.m. at the Highlands Community Center for their second highly rated presentation of how that rascal Joshua Huddy managed to get hanged right smack in the heart of downtown Highlands a couple of hundred years ago.
Highlands Council President Joann Olszewski, a retired teacher in Teaneck, fell in love with the history of this borough along with its 21st century beauty when she first moved there several years ago.
With the curiosity and research ability of an award winning educator, she delved deeper into the story of Captain Joshua Huddy, a Revolutionary patriot from Colts Neck who was captured by British Tories and hung to avenge the death of Phillip White, a Loyalist who had been shot trying to escape from the New Jersey militia. Though Joshua Huddy had no connection to White’s death, he was led by a guard commanded by Captain Richard Lippincott to Highlands where he was hanged from a tree.
Olszewski, captivated by the story, researched all the correspondence that surrounded the planned execution of Joshua Huddy, including letters from General George Washington, Thomas Payne, British negotiators, and more. She learned that Capt. Charles Asgill, an officer with the British Foot Guards, was imprisoned and scheduled to be killed in retaliation for Huddy’s death. She uncovered letters not only from him but his mother, a highly respected dowager in England, as well.
Culling together a series of letters from all the major players in what became known as the Asgill Affair, Olszewski turned to members of the Highlands Historical Society to put the excitement of an, 18th century revenge best seller on stage through readings of the correspondence surrounding the entire affair.
Repeating the roles they played in the first presentation of the event, a SRO performance at the Farmacie in Highlands, are Mayor Carolyn Broullon and Council president Olszewski, together with Society President Sheila Weinstock and Society members led by local historian Walter Guenther. Local authors John King and Muriel J. Smith, both of whom have written books about other facets of Highlands history, are in Wednesday’s cast, along with society member Eileen Skiff, the dedicated Historical Society hard working member.
King, who was not in the original cast for the presentation, is replacing another author, Rick Geffken, in portraying the Deputy Judge Advocate. Proceeds from his latest book, released this week, went to the Historical Sovciety.
Ken Sedlak, a history teacher, has also joined the entourage for Wednesday’s event. He is portraying Sir Clinton, formerly portrayed by Linda Guenther.
The public is invited to attend the event at no charge and stay for Revolutionary style light refreshments and chats with the historic newscasters following the presentation.
The Community Center is located on Snug Harbor Avenue at the riverfront. Handicap parking is available on the west side of the building.
This photo of the seemingly illegal silt deposits in the bay was taken this afternoon Saturday, September, 23, stretching up to 100 yards offshore made it evident to everyone braving wind and rain to witness what many have termed a “blatant environmental abuse of the bay” at the of the Denholtz construction on Avenue D. adjacent to the Catamaran Club property on the waterfront.
With the 3:10 high tide currently affecting the flow, silt is flowing down the hill and mixing in with the water in the bay.
Where is the Environmental Commission?
Where are the state environmental officers?
Where are the Borough Officials?
Construction is allowed to continue in spite of the surmounting evidence of dangerous oils and chemicals flowing into the bay. What will happen during the next high tide post-midnight?
