It was a bright, crisp day on Sandy Hook Sunday. The Sun was filled with clear hues of orange and yellow as it sunk down over the bay. There were clear views of the NY skyline, neighboring towns and sights on the beach. Patch may have missed the seal sighting, but the sunset was captured. And it's all here. Patch friend Christine Rego caught it all and sent us some fabulous photos that we have turned into a slideshow. Check it out. Click on the arrow in the above photo for a gorgeous view of the evening set to music.
On a clear weekend night on the Leonardo shores of the bay at the Atlantic Highlands border, you can see ... a tranquil, dark beach and a lit up New York skyline. While our camera didn't take very well to the dark, some interesting shots of the sights were caught through the Middletown Patch lens. From the barren beach to the light-dotted horizon showcasing a glowing city across the Raritan bay, there were definitely some sights to see from the Middletown side. Take a look (in the gallery above). And, if you happened to be out and about with your camera over the weekend, upload your photos …
Amost as quickly as the first thin veil of snow gently blanketed Middletown and the surrounding area, it melted away. From Saturday night to Monday morning, scenes of pristine snow on rooftops, the banks of the Navesink at nightfall, footprints in the melting snow and leftover signs of warmer times peering through it all, Patch captured it in black and white. If you happened to grab an interesting shot of the snow, feel free to upload it and share it with us. In the meantime, enjoy our photo gallery.
Artists from all over the area are walking together in their own collaborative winter wonderland at the Middletown Arts Center (MAC). Images of the holiday season, in every medium imaginable, deck the halls of the MAC in an exhibit dubbed "Let it Snow." Starting on Dec. 4, arts patrons were transported to different ideas of a winter's day captured in every mode, from oil painting to kids' colored pencil renderings. Participating artists in the show are: Hillary Binder-Klein, Freehold; Medy Bozkurtian, East Hanover; Lucy Campanella, Shrewsbury; Maureen Carroll, Holmdel; Mary Christensen, …
It was more than a day of racing. The Great Race of Middletown, held on the Middletown High School South campus, featured a host of home-baked snacks and socializing among parents, children and teachers between several 5K and 2K races run by students and parents in age groups ranging from 8 to 14 and 14 to 60 plus years. Trophies, commemorative mugs and cash prizes were awarded. Hundreds of people milled around and enjoyed the company and sun with the "run with pride for the race in quality education" credo of the annual race in mind. Proceeds from the races (t-shirts and entry fees) went to …
Call it a quick, clean sweep for a better beach environment. In Middletown, five beach sweeps were organized under the umbrella of Clean Ocean Action's statewide annual Beach Sweeps on Saturday that included 70 locations. The sun was shining brightly and by 11:30 a.m., a few bags of trash, a rusted chain link fence and a few other items were piled up by the garbage can at Bayshore Waterfront Park in the Port Monmouth section of the township. The beach was clean and sparse. View a glimpse of the day in the slideshow above, after the sweeps were done on this one stretch of Middletown beach. To …
"It's like land of the lost here," said Leonardo resident Jessica Stone Fieldman, a toddler and newborn in tow at the beach down the street from her home on Hamilton Avenue. "I jog nine miles a day up and down the Bayshore and I have yet to see one JCP&L truck — only township employees cleaning up brush. Where is everyone?" Fieldman moved from Manhattan to Middletown three years ago to raise her family in the suburb across the bay from the big city. She lived through 9/11, "across the street" when the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center hit. Just settling into her tranquil suburban …
"He would be so proud," said Janice Tietjen, mother of fallen Port Authority Police Officer Kenneth Tietjen, from Ground Zero as she soaked in the celebratory start of the inaugural Blue Valor Motorcycle Run last week. "He's smiling down on us," the proud mother said as about 100 bikers revved their engines and got ready to ride more than 200 miles to the Washington D.C. destination of the National Law Enforcement Memorial. Each motorcyclist rode, for sponsored donated dollars, in honor of an officer who had been killed in the line of duty. The proceeds, which amounted to more than $80,000, …
