Category: Independent News
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Community Garden feeds the hungry
Tours of Lunch Break and garden set for Saturday MIDDLETOWN — Westminster Presbyterian Church’s PAR Garden (Plant-A-Row for the Hungry) is fulfilling its mission by producing a bountiful harvest that is feeding the hungry. The goal of the community garden, which is divided into individual plots and planted with vegetables, is to produce a minimum…
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Julius Caesar
Top: Audra Mariel Talerico, as Portia, and Daniel Rezac, as Brutus, perform for the audience gathered at the outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” held on the Great Lawn at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on July 8. Brookdale’s Shakespeare Ensemble presented the multiple-day show. Bottom: The young cast makes final preparations before participating in…
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Hunting for fossils
Top to bottom: Jerry Nasta and his son John, 5, from Middletown, hunt for fossils in Middletown’s Poricy Park on July 11. Kristi Baar from Garnet Valley, Pa., and her 19-monthold daughter Sloane hunt for fossils in a streambed. A Poricy Park guide helps Mark Hines, 10, of Colts Neck, identify an Exogyra fossil fragment…
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7th annual Ryan’s Run held in Middletown
Runners take their positions at the start of the seventh annual Ryan’s Run on June 26. MIDDLETOWN — Ryan’s Run was held on Saturday, June 26, on the grounds of Mountain Hill School, where 520 runners finished the seventh annual 5K event and 150 runners ran in the 1-mile run. Organized by the Ryan Andrew…
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Practitioners trained in needs of returning vets
BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Henry Acosta (l-r), from the Governor’s Council on Mental Health, stands with Robin Mama, dean of the School of Social Work at Monmouth University, and Robert Lowry, Carolyn Bradley, and Ellen Foley, members of the school’s Coming Home Project, after they were presented with the N.J. Governor’s Council Ambassador Award…
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Honoring a local hero
Middletown native and Christian Brothers Academy graduate U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Nicholas Abbate receives a standing ovation from those attending the Township Committee’s July 6 meeting. Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger and the committee recognized Abbate’s service to his country with a proclamation, which Scharfenberger said causes all other proclamations to pale in comparison “for the simple…
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Brookdale’s Summer Shakespeare Ensemble
Members of Brookdale’s Summer Shakespeare Ensemble perform in “Julius Caesar” for the audience seated on the Great Lawn at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on July 8. ERIC SUCAR staff
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County libraries offer programs for teens
Looking for thrills, artistry and a little mystery this summer? If you’re a teen-ager, look no farther than your local Monmouth County Library branch. Programs designed especially for teens will be held throughout the summer at many of the Monmouth County Library’s 12 branches. This summer, the Teen Department at the Monmouth County Library will…
