Category: Atlanticville Opinion
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High school theater arts to get own awards
Count Basie launches awards to recognize student achievement RED BANK — The Count Basie Theatre is inaugurating awards that will recognize outstanding student achievement in dramatic and musical theater. The Basie Awards “will recognize the highest levels of individual and ensemble achievement in high school musical and dramatic theater in Monmouth County,” an announcement from…
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Support of Red Cross is reflection of spirit
America is a special place, where someone you may not know will give you their blood, save you from drowning or provide you with shelter. In 1943, President Theodore Roosevelt recognized the American Red Cross as a true reflection of that humanitarian, volunteer spirit and proclaimed March as Red Cross Month, a tradition that has…
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Schiavo case underscores importance of living wills
Greg Bean Coda It’s now just over 20 years since my father lost his battle with cancer. He died on Father’s Day 1984. His illness was the only demon he ever faced that he could not conquer by sheer force of will, but he did not accept that going in. Days after he was diagnosed,…
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St. James Church thanks Big Event volunteers
On behalf of the rector, wardens and vestry of St. James Episcopal Church, I would like to extend our sincere thanks to Monmouth University in providing volunteers for the Big Event on Saturday, April 2. We got a tremendous amount of much-needed work done at the church and we couldn’t have done it without the…
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Housing advocate bemoans red tape
It is expensive to live in New Jersey, especially when it comes to housing. Anyone who has checked into renting even a modest apartment in almost any community in this state is likely astonished at the cost. New Jersey is the third most expensive state for rental housing, and the most expensive rental market for…
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Efforts to lower mph on Parker Rd. commended
I would first like to thank both Eatontown and West Long Branch for their efforts in reducing the speed limit on Parker Road. It is certainly needed. However, I would like see the Atlanticville conduct a readers’ survey requesting every resident living on streets in both these towns — having the posted speed limit of…
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Obituaries
George C. Uchrin Mr. Uchrin, 82, of the Lincroft section of Middletown, died March 27 at Princeton Care Center. Born in Edison, he resided there, and in Eatontown for 24 years prior to moving to Lincroft in 1974. He was a retired engineering draftsman at the Signal Corps Engineering Labs, Fort Monmouth, Eatontown, where he…
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