Category: Atlanticville Opinion
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It’s safe to smoke but only in your dreams
Coda Greg Bean After many years as an ex-smoker, I took the habit up again this week, and I’m enjoying it immensely. The news that I’m smoking again initially horrified my wife, and it will probably horrify my friends as well. I lost both of my parents to lung cancer, and I’d been a two-pack-a-day…
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Monmouth Beach Day!
Clockwise from top left: Members of the Happy Days String Band entertain at the Monmouth Beach Day parade Sept. 10. A couple of local youngsters drive in the parade. Patrolman John Jones and Michael Jones, 7, participate in the parade on a motorcycle. Local residents ride on vintage fire truck.
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BCC welcomes students of Gulf Coast schools
BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer MIDDLETOWN — In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the biggest thing on most Monmouth County residents’ minds is how they can help out those affected in the Gulf Coast region. At Brookdale Community College, staffers have already taken on the role of helping out those local…
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Schools to begin random drug testing
Students who play sports, join clubs, drive to school affected BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer Students who participate in athletics and other extracurricular activities, or who park their cars at school, may soon be subject to random drug testing in New Jersey schools. According to S-500, a bill signed into law…
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Letters
Basic freedoms being stripped While a lot of folks are drawn to the scene where the war on terrorism is being waged overseas, I have become increasingly concerned with what is going on in my hometown of Long Branch. For the last 10 years houses of worship are not primarily permitted anywhere in Long Branch.…
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Obituaries
Vincent Havens Mr. Havens, 69, of the Belford section of Middletown, died Aug. 22 at his home. Born in Jersey City, he had been a longtime resident of Middletown. Mr. Havens was a salesman before his retirement seven years ago. He served in the Air National Guard during the Korean War. He was a communicant…
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Letters
Tapes underscore 9/11 EMS casualties New York City’s recent release of more 9/11 tapes hopefully makes the public aware of what we in the emergency medical services community already knew: EMS responders, volunteers included, played a much more vital role in the day’s events than reported until now. The overall feeling is that the day’s…
