Category: Independent Calendar
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Community Bulletin Board
Registration open for cardio-kickboxing Hazlet Recreation Commission will offer two cardio-kickboxing classes for adults beginning this month. Registration is due by Jan. 10, or a $5 late fee will apply. Classes will be held at the James J. Cullen Center, 1776 Union Ave., Hazlet. Classes will begin Jan. 11 for a 12-week session on Saturdays…
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Education foundation slates dinner-dance
Tickets are now available for the Middletown Township Education Foundation’s (MTEF) 15th annual dinner-dance and auction, "Renaissance to Rockets," March 1 at 7 p.m. at Gibbs Hall, Fort Monmouth. Tickets are $75 per person, with proceeds benefiting education grants. The event will feature a cash bar, dinner, dancing, music performed by FATE, and various auctions.…
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Highlands man gets unwanted gift
KEYPORT — Police are looking for the person who left a mysterious gift-wrapped packaged next to the car of a Highlands man. The package was left outside the man’s car while it was parked in the 7-Eleven parking lot on the corner of Broad Street and Maple Place on Dec. 23, borough police Detective Sgt.…
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Star pitcher makes visit to Dottie’s House
Al Leiter, pitcher for the New York Mets, and his wife recently took a tour of the newly opened Dottie’s House in Point Pleasant, a transitional housing program to aid survivors of domestic violence in Ocean County. The house is part of the art therapy program Amanda’s Easel, and is jointly operated by 180, Turning…
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FARRAH MAFFAI The day after Christmas many people, including Jim Stauffer and his son, Olven, 3, enjoyed sledding the hills of Holmdel Park.
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Middletown pistol range revamping under way
Middletown pistol range revamping under way MIDDLETOWN — Complaints may have ceased, but improvements to the township’s Police Firearms Training Facility continue. More than two years have passed since a lone citizen, Joyce Kunemund, launched a campaign of caustic complaints about the range. She lived at Shady Oaks Village, a senior complex, across the federal…
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FARRAH MAFFAI Jack Flynn, 6, uses his snowboard on the hills of Holmdel Park the day after Christmas.
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CHRIS KELLY Prudy Marino (l) of the Creative Crafters of St. Benedict’s Church, Holmdel, and Catherine Zavorskas, Matawan-Aberdeen Board of Education vice president and Creative Crafters member, sit behind some of the 30 packages donated by the group’s members. The packages were later taken to Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel, and given to the needy.
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Swami to offer free
lecture series in Jan. The Unitarian Universalist Church, Newman Springs Road, Lincroft section of Middletown, will present a free lecture series, "Inner Growth Through Devotion," Jan. 10-13. The times are Friday and Monday from 7-8:45 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 5:15-7 p.m. The lectures will be given by Swami Tattvavidananda, a disciple of Pujya…
