Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

The book, it turns out, was borrowed in 1926 by Mary Cooper's grandfather Charles Tilton, a prominent Jersey Shore captain.

In March 1926, a book was checked out of the Ocean County Library and never returned - until now. When Mary Cooper’s mom ...

One who concerns himself with the sound of sense more than the subject is an artist.” What is beyond an artist? What is ...

The Ocean County Library system, the state’s largest, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. And in the spirit of ...