Category: Atlanticville Opinion
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Another bridge to nowhere
Nowhere, meaning both Route 36 and Sandy Hook Park, are both one-laners each way. Where then, is the unimpeded traffic to go? The only change the local residents will see from the proposed $140 million fiasco is: 1. Owners of large boats will not have to wait for the drawbridge to open and 2. Sandy…
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Bridge replacement a DOT boondoggle
In St. Augustine, Fla., the town demanded repairs instead of replacement of their historic drawbridge, and they got it. The plan in St. Augustine is to erect a temporary drawbridge right alongside the old one. Then they’ll close the old bridge for repairs. When the repairs are complete, they’re going to dismantle the temporary drawbridge.…
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In the Arts
Members of Unlimited Potential Theatre Company. VSA arts of New Jersey (VSA/NJ) welcomed people with and without disabilities to the South Brunswick Public Library Dec. 2 for a holiday music and theater event in celebration of International Disability Awareness Day. The event featured a combination of participatory, creative drama exercises for children and adults as…
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School Days
Students make a difference Students in the Let’s Make a Difference Club at Pope John XXIII Regional Catholic School in Ocean Township, led by grade six teacher Tracie Keenan, have been busy collecting food for various organizations. At the start of the year, the club launched a cereal drive for the FoodBank of Monmouth and…
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Free-spirited artist turns to minimalism
Evelyn Leavens’ works in ‘Art for the Arts’ at Laurel Tracey Gallery BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer LAYLI WHYTE Fifty-five years have elapsed since Evelyn Leavens’ first exhibit and the current show of her minimalist paintings at Laurel Tracey Gallery in Red Bank. Evelyn Leavens’ first show was in 1952, and…
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Your Turn
Helping Darfur a cause to hope for in new year Erin Stattel Guest Column Aziza is only 17 years old, and as she went out to gather firewood in the bush with other women of her village in Darfur, three Sudanese militia men rode up on horseback and caught her. One man raped her and…
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Revitalizing Fort Monmouth for life
Because Fort Monmouth is a valuable asset, you will hear all kinds of reasoning put forth for various agendas of those who want to control, at least, a part of this unexpectedly available piece of real estate. But the citizens who paid for it are being limited to three minutes – a big 180 seconds…
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Epstein paintings at Gallery on Grant
Detail of “Fragmentary Blue” ‘Nature Abstracted: A Selection of Paintings by Shari Epstein” is on exhibit at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Monmouth County in Deal. The show will run through Feb. 28 at the JCC’s Gallery on Grant Avenue. The public is invited to meet the artist at a cocktail reception on Saturday,…
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In the Arts
New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble will hold auditions for its spring season and summer intensive on Jan. 7 and 14 in the dance studios at the Simon Forum & Athletic Center at Drew University, 26 Madison Ave., Madison. Auditions for dancers ages 9-12 will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon; auditions for dancers ages…
