Category: Atlanticville Opinion
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Grocery bags carry Earth Day message
The students in grades K-8 at Saint Jerome School in West Long Branch, decorated paper grocery bags with an Earth Day message. The bags were then distributed to shoppers on Earth Day, April 22, to help make customers aware of ways to save and protect the environment.
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Mom’s little wisdoms from a cat’s perspective
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Little Silver pet portraitist Kim Levin has a new book of maternal wisdoms dished up by feline role models. Co-authored with Christine Montaquila, “Caternal Instincts: A Feline Guide to Mastering Motherhood” features savvy cats giving tips for raising the young with confidence. “Caternal Instincts,” published by Stewart, Tabori &…
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Freeholder delivers civics lesson
Freeholder Barbara J. McMorrow What is a freeholder? That’s a question members of the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders get asked all the time. To answer that question, Freeholder Barbara J. McMorrow went back to school to teach civics to the fourth-grade class at Wayside Elementary School in Ocean Township, using a presentation geared…
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Greetings from Asbury Park
A special edition of NJN’s “State of the Arts” explores Asbury Park, a small city with a big history, which is undergoing yet another transformation “Greetings from Asbury Park,” airing Friday at 8:30 p.m., with a rebroadcast on Wednesday, May 16, at 11:30 p.m., examines the history and culture of Asbury Park from the 1870s…
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Dress for success
Students dress in finery to welcome spring. Lots of places have Dress Down Day, but Morris Avenue School in Long Branch decided to have a Dress Up Day. Dressed in their finest clothes, students and staff danced their way into spring at the Spring Fling. The students sang and danced to “Chicken Noodle Soup,” “Cha…
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In the Arts
Emmy Award winner Jackie Mason, master of pungent political satire, insightful observations on the foibles of modern life and impeccable timing, will be at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank Thursday, May 10 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $100 – $28. The theater is located at 99 Monmouth St. For tickets, call the box office…
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Panter: Military housing plans pose security issues
Tinton Falls sees impact on school district BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Mix together economics, housing, children and their education, and you get one combustible mess. Add a terrorism bust in New Jersey focused on a military facility, and boom! … clarity. According to Assemblyman Michael Panter (D-12), the terrorism plot…
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Artists trading places
Sculpture by Rick Tierney Even artists need to break out of the mold every now and then. That explains an exhibit with the tongue-in-cheek title “The Pen; the Brush; the Knife and the Torch,” which has opened at The Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury. The show features the work of four local artists who…
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Helping students keep pace with the future
Program aims to keep U.S. competitive in science, hi-tech BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer BY CHRISTINE VARNOStaff Writer Clockwise from top, Max Kuciej, a seventh grader at Forrestdale School in Rumson, is touching a Van De Graff generator that creates static electricity and makes his hair stand up. Alexis Holiday, a seventh-grader at the Red…
