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Women Featured in Library Programs in March

Details: Category: News; Published: 23 February 2021

MANALAPAN – Women’s History Month at the Monmouth County Library features talks by leading authors and historians on important roles women have played throughout the ages, and contributions they have made to a variety of educational, recreational, intellectual and business fields.

Historian Mary Rasa will present Women Lighthouse keepers, a program highlighting women in one of the first government career fields open to them. The program will begin at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 9, and will tell the story of how lighthouse keepers taught their wives and daughters how to man the lights, leading to their recognition and certification as official or assistant keepers of the lights in the US Lighthouse Service.

Highlands Historical Society Names Scholarship for Nina Flannery

Details: Category: News; Published: 23 February 2021

HIGHLANDS – Historical Society President Sheila Weinstock told the Mayor and Council at its meeting last week that the Historical Society of Highlands has officially named the annual award it presents to a deserving graduating senior at Henry Hudson Regional High School "The Nina Light Flannery Memorial Scholarship Presented by the Historical Society of Highlands."

Mrs. Flannery passed away unexpectedly at home last month after a short illness. Her family has requested donations in her memory be directed to the Nina L. Flannery Scholarship Fund, Historical Society of Highlands, P.O. Box 13, Highlands, NJ 07732. The award is open to graduating seniors at the school and has been presented annually for the past five years.

Monmouth County has 220 additional positive cases of COVID-19

Details: Category: News; Published: 23 February 2021

FREEHOLD, NJ – Monmouth County Commissioner Director Thomas A. Arnone and County Commissioner Deputy Director Susan M. Kiley have announced that today, Feb. 23, there are 220 new positive cases of COVID-19 in Monmouth County. There are 10 new deaths being reported today related to COVID-19 in Monmouth County.

The County Commissioners and the Monmouth County Health Department (MCHD) are strongly urging residents to do their part to slow the spread by practicing social distancing, wearing a face covering when social distancing is not possible, not gathering in large crowds, washing their hands and staying home when sick.

Monmouth County has 148 additional positive cases of COVID-19

Details: Category: News; Published: 22 February 2021

FREEHOLD, NJ – Monmouth County Commissioner Director Thomas A. Arnone and County Commissioner Deputy Director Susan M. Kiley have announced that today, Feb. 22, there are 148 new positive cases of COVID-19 in Monmouth County. There are no new deaths being reported today related to COVID-19 in Monmouth County.

Was Snowflake Abandoned?

Details: Category: The Armchair Critic; Published: 22 February 2021

Photographs of Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) aboard a departing flight to Cancun during the Texas deep freeze stirred understandable and much deserved criticism. It’s perfectly acceptable to flee hardship if you have the means, but not when you are a public figure charged with supporting the welfare of the very community you hope to abandon. It’s a heartless public servant who professes dedication to his constituents, but very quickly deserts his community when tragedy unfolds. Apparently, this never occurred to Ted Cruz, and if it did, he certainly didn’t care. Rather than stay behind to do his job while his family fled to safety and warmth in Cancun, good old Ted donned his Texas cap and face mask and waltzed through the Houston airport seemingly unaffected. The incriminating photographs of Senator Cruz leaving for Cancun stirred swift, sharp criticism, which was later intensified when a reporter for New York magazine’s Intelligencer publicly speculated Cruz had abandoned his dog. The public was incensed by a photograph of the dog, a rescue named Snowflake, staring forlornly out the front door of the Cruz home at the same time Cruz was in the air heading to Cancun. Was Snowflake abandoned?