Category: Independent Calendar
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Train station upgrade tops Ab’deen 2002 list Open space, affordable housing also in spotlight
Staff Writer By alison granito Train station upgrade tops Ab’deen 2002 list Open space, affordable housing also in spotlight ABERDEEN — When the Township Council meets for the first time next year it will be unanimously Democratic once again. The township’s reorganization meeting will be held Jan. 1 at noon in the municipal building. The…
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Borough will focus on center, downtown in ‘02 Train station redevelopment also on agenda
Staff Writer By alison granito Borough will focus on center, downtown in ‘02 Train station redevelopment also on agenda MATAWAN — As this year wraps up and everyone looks forward to next year, borough officials expect a smooth transition into 2002. The Borough Council will hold its annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 1 at noon…
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Honor Place awards go to Aberdeen engineer
The New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers recently honored Aberdeen Township Municipal Engineer David J. Samuel for his work on two township projects. Samuel won the Municipal Management Projects Honor Place Award for work on Aberdeen’s Water System Management, and the Municipal Construction Projects Honor Place Award for its Sewage Pumping Station Rehabilitation project. Mark…
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Community Bulletin Board WCMC seeks donations of food gift certificates
Community Bulletin Board WCMC seeks donations of food gift certificates The Women’s Center of Monmouth County (WCMC), Hazlet, is currently seeking food gift certificates to major grocers to share with the center’s survivors of domestic violence. Several toys and articles of clothing have already been donated by the community and corporations to the donors "adopted"…
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VERONICA YANKOWSKI EEK! — Sarah Lassen, a fourth-grader at Ravine Drive Elementary School, gets a lesson in static electricity from Thomas Edison, played by Joseph Friend, during a program at the Matawan school to teach students about Edison’s famous scientific discoveries.
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FARRAH MAFFAI The crowd watches as the seventh candle is lit on the menorah at the Red Bank train station Saturday.
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Base closing plans opposed
Congressmen Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6) and Rush Holt (D-12) recently voiced opposition to the fiscal year 2002 (FY 2002) defense authorization conference report that called for base closings beginning in 2005. The conference report reconciled two separate bills passed by the Senate and the House earlier this year; the initial House version of the legislation…
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Children of WTC victims treated to train exhibit
Staff Writer By ELAINE VAN DEVELDE JERRY WOLKOWITZ A locomotive chugs along on the Edelson train layout as Jeffrey Cangialosi, 10, Middletown, watches in the background Saturday. HOLMDEL — Township resident Larry Edelson built a train wonderland three years ago, and this year he shared his magical fantasy land with children who needed a little…
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Library fund raising feasibility a big maybe
Staff Writer By ELAINE VAN DEVELDE MIDDLETOWN — The fund-raising feasibility figures are in, and they’re telling the township that right now the public library is a few renovations late and $3 million short. The revelation of what has now become a library goal started materializing over the summer. In an effort to remedy what…
