The auto bailout

Courier Editor Somdatta Sengupta has penned a piece about the auto bailout for this week's edition of The Courier Online. Click on the headline to go to the story.

Tropical Smoothie is the new cafe in M'town

Tropical Smoothie Cafe is located in the heart of Middletown, at Middletown Plaza. Courier Editor Somdatta Sengupta has the story about it this week at The Courier Online. Click on the headline and go there.

The Courier Online turns on tomorrow

The Courier's Web site, hacked during late last year, will be up again tomorrow. The site will have new features, updates will be more frequent and there will be more photography. As can be expected, there are a great many more security features with this site and the problem with hacking won't be happening again.

Story content will be slightly different. On the Web, readers are looking for news fast. So stories will be written for a readership that is keen on getting the news and getting moving onto something else. Updates will be throughout the week, with photography, so whatever is happening during the course of any given day will be Online, courtesy of The Courier's News Dept.

The Courier Online is editorially designed to survey news five times a week from the 10 towns the newspaper has covered since 1955, Northern Monmouth County's Bayshore.

Whether you are a local looking for what's happening, a realtor looking for some helpful tips about the Bayshore, or someone who moved away and want to keep up with the news, The Courier Online will be a helpful stop along the Information Super Highway.

I thank our Online readers for their patience, and look forward to feedback on our new product. The Courier Online's launch has been quite a project for Courier Editor Somdatta Sengupta, who has done a truly outstanding job on this work. She will be joined in this launch by graphic artist Timothy Kovach, a new face to The Courier who joined us a week ago.

So with finger's crossed, please be sure to stop by The Courier Online tomorrow.

Sengupta will feature Atlantic Artisans on April 19

In The Courier's April 19 edition, Editor Somdatta Sengupta (top right) is featuring First Avenue, Atlantic Highlands business owner Nance Ciasca (top left) and her store, Atlantic Artisans.

The work coming out of Nance's store is very fresh, in my opinion, not unlike the kind of quality coming out of New Hope or Lambertville, or even Philadelphia. It's definitely worth a look. Click on the headline to go to Atlantic Artisans' new blog.