Author: Greater Media
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Freehold native’s New Orleans bar returns on ‘Bar Rescue’
By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer Steve Smith Business is good for Freehold Borough native Steve Smith, who owns two bars in the French Quarter in New Orleans with his business partner Brad Bohannan. In 2013, Smith and Bohannan were featured in an episode of “Bar Rescue” on Spike TV. Viewers who missed that episode of…
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Now is the time for banks to return the favor
The monumental crash of Wall Street and the financial institutions in 2008 led to our elected officials giving a bailout of untold sums of money from the pockets of the American people to keep the current economic system afloat. Now that the American people are facing a future of dire economic straits, it is payback…
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Foundation announces grant winners
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Freehold Township Education Foundation (FTEF) recently announced the recipients of the 2015 William J. Setaro Building Blocks for Innovation (BBI) grants program. A total of four teacher-written grants were funded, divided among three schools in the Freehold Township K-8 School District among the Joseph J. Catena School, the Laura Donovan School…
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Sunrise Optimists to hold golf outing
The Freehold Sunrise Optimist Foundation will once again present its annual charity golf tournament, the Carmen J. Rivello Friend of Youth Golf Classic, on Aug. 11. The event will take place at the Bella Vista Country Club, Marlboro, according to a press release. The annual charity event, hosted by the foundation, is committed to benefiting…
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BUSINESS BRIEFS
Vince Scanelli of Colts Neck, an Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company agency owner, received the Agency Hands in the Community Award for his commitment to helping others and for outstanding volunteerism. With this award came two $1,000 grants from the Allstate Foundation for Douglass Organization for Occupational and Related Educational Services (DOORS) in New Brunswick…
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Kim Carrafiello is enjoying success in the current real estate market
BACK TO BUSINESS News of Greater Media Newspapers’ advertisers Kim Carrafiello is no stranger to real estate, having her father — a real estate broker and independent contractor for more than 35 years — as her teacher. She grew up learning about building, upgrading, and of course, ultimately the art of selling homes and properties.…
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Being funny is all in the family for the Gaffigans
The life and times of Jim and Jeannie By Kellie Freeze, www.channelguidemag.com “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” airing Wednesdays on TV Land, stars comedian Jim Gaffigan as a fictionalized version of himself — a food- and nap-loving devoted father of five, who is raising his brood of fair-haired kids in a two-bedroom apartment in New York…
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See, mom, all that video game playing can pay off
In theaters now By Paul Hall www.channelguidemag.com Who would have thought that footage of the 1982 World Video Game Championships would incite an extraterrestrial attack today? That, my friends, is the war we wage in the new film Pixels. In the ’80s, Sam, Will and Ludlow were great friends united over one common interest: They…
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Now is the time for banks to return the favor
The monumental crash of Wall Street and the financial institutions in 2008 led to our elected officials giving a bailout of untold sums of money from the pockets of the American people to keep the current economic system afloat. Now that the American people are facing a future of dire economic straits, it is payback…
