Author: BRUCE MORAN, Department Editor
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Walk to combat ovarian cancer on Sept. 24 in Avon-by-the-Sea
The Avon-by-the-Sea boardwalk at 601 Ocean Ave. is the Monmouth County location for this year’s Kaleidoscope of Hope Ovarian Cancer Foundation Walk. The walk, sponsored by Oceans of Hope, will take place on Saturday, Sept. 24, with registration starting at 8:15 a.m. and the walk beginning at 9 a.m. Participants can walk for one, three…
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Environmental march held in Red Bank
Hundreds of grassroots activists took to streets this past Saturday, Sept. 17, when the March for Environmental Justice was staged in Red Bank. The event, which is sponsored by the Green Party of New Jersey (GPNJ), started at the Red Bank train station at 10 a.m., and was followed by a march through Red Bank…
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Manalapan’s Andrews heading to Olympics
Robbie Andrews, the former All-America runner from Manalapan High School, qualified for the Olympics in the 1,500-meter run. Andrews finished second in the 1,500 meters on July 10 at the U.S. Track and Field Trials that were being run at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore. He nailed down the berth to the Summer…
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What’s in a name?
Roadways and bridges are named for the famous BY KAREN L. KESTEN Staff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff You’re stuck in traffic again and you turn on the traffic report. You hear the names of bridges and roads over and over, but who are these people, and why do they have their own bridge? Spanning the…
