Category: Atlanticville Opinion
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Lucy McGrath, 14, a student at Long Branch High School, reads her lines during a staged reading presented by the Renegade Readers series at the Two River Theater in Red Bank on April 7.
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LBHS team takes on Euro Challenge
On March 2 and 9, five Long Branch sophomores and their economics adviser, Noah Lipman, traveled to New York City to compete in the Euro Challenge. The competition, which was held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, involved 24 select high schools from the tristate area. The Euro Challenge was created to promote…
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= 3.14159
Answer: What you get when you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice cream by its diameter. Ques-tion: What is à la mode? That’s how ” Jeopardy” at Pope John XXIII Reg-ional School, Ocean Township, began. Eighth-grade students played two rounds of ” Jeopardy” in which all of the categories were in some way…
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A state at risk: What’s left in the garden, part 1
Despite a broad understanding of what it means when a plant or animal species is threatened or endangered, thousands remain at risk in New Jersey because the state has not finished adopting rules or committed the resources needed to protect them. “Endangered species” in New Jersey are those that will become extinct here unless we…
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American Red Cross draws on cadre of volunteers
In our busy lives, nothing is more valuable than time. It follows that volunteers – people who choose to give their time to make this a better community – are very valuable indeed. Less than one-third of adults give their time through volunteer work, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service. That makes…
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Dedicate WLB police building to 9/11 heroes
I have been very pleased to see the progress being made by Mayor Janet Tucci and our Borough Council on the new police building for West Long Branch. In 2006, I attended a council meeting during which some of our police officers expressed concerns about the condition of the current building. The council has been…
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$3M pavilion redo will cost taxpayers
I have just received my application for the bathing pavilion from Monmouth Beach. What a surprise. Trying to compare to the beach and pool rates of the area, you can’t. They are private beach clubs; they are a business. Why aren’t Sue Howard and Jim Cunniff dropping the $3 million to remodel the club? It…
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Seniors close to having voice in governance
Senior citizens across the state should know that their collective voices, represented by the Organization of Residents Associations of NJ (ORANJ), have taken another major step in their long road to rightful representation on their governing boards of directors. Despite age and infirmity, residents of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) from around the state traveled…
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Withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq
Nearly four years ago, President Bush sent our nation’s troops into an unnecessary and unjustified invasion of Iraq. President Bush’s reasons for invading Iraq have long since been discredited, and our continued presence there exacerbates the sectarian conflicts that have torn Iraq apart since the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. Last December, the bipartisan…
