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Chester Apy, former assemblyman and victim of 1960s redistricting, dies at 89

July 25, 2021 5:26 pmJuly 26, 2021 12:45 am

Chester Apy, a respected maverick Republican who represented Monmouth County in the New Jersey State Assembly in the late 1960s and early 1970s and made his mark as an advocate of tax reform – including a vote in support of...

Paul J. Smith, Union Beach mayor, dies at 66

April 30, 2020 9:50 pm

Union Beach Mayor Paul J. Smith, Jr. died today after taking a fall in his home, according to a More Monmouth Musings report. He was 66. While being treated for his fall at Riverview Medical Center, Smith went into cardiac...

Threatening to run if he didn’t get the line almost cost Howard 24 years in Congress

April 12, 2020 3:51 pmJuly 25, 2021 12:51 pm

A political misstep in a closed-door party screening committee might have cost James J. Howard the chance to spends 24 years as a Democratic congressman from a heavily Republican Monmouth-Ocean district. Howard, one of the most politically adept, naturally-gifted politicians...