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Essay winners, guests, honorees celebrate annual Dr. King commemoration ❯ It was an unconventional commemoration to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but the theme of love, perseverance and service shined throughout the YMCA of Greater Monmouth County’s first virtual event honoring the late civil rights leader. For 32 years, the Y has brought together community leaders, students and residents from across Monmouth County to remember King at the annual memorial service. This year, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, guests joined a live-streamed celebration o...

BERKELEY - When Elijah Barnes went to Pennsylvania Avenue in June to see the White House, there was a protest going on. George Floyd had just been killed at the hands of police in Minnesota. He remembers police officers deploying stun guns and seeing their fists connect with the faces of protesters. Flash forward to Wednesday night. When the 22-year-old Princeton University student-athlete arrived home in Berkeley from a basketball workout around 6:30 p.m., he learned of the siege at the Capitol, where loyalists of President Donald Trump breached doors and fences, stormed the hallways,...

Love to be presented with MLK Human Dignity Award Love to be presented with MLK Human Dignity Award × 2020 was filled with uncertainty and cancelled events near and far, but the YMCA of Greater Monmouth County is busy preparing for its annual community celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The commemoration will be a live virtual event hosted on Zoom on Jan. 15. For the second year in the 32-year history of the event, the Y will present its Martin Luther King Jr. Human Dignity Award to honor an individual who reflects King’s principles and ideals in phil...

Atlantic Hub News Briefs, Dec. 23 Tinton Falls Borough Council members have authorized a contract with the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to provide animal control services in the borough in 2021. During a recent meeting, council members passed a resolution which authorizes the one-year contract with the MCSPCA that will be effective from Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021. The MCSPCA will be paid $30,000 ($2,500 per month). Through the contract, the MCSPCA will provide daily animal control services to Tinton Falls and a facility where stray animals that hav...