Category: Independent News
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Timely and timeless designs at CVA
BY MARIE NAPLES MABER Correspondent The CVA Gallery of Brookdale Community College has been transformed into a life-sized timeline of inventions titled “100 Greatest Designs of the Past Thousand Years” on loan from Kean University’s Department of Design. Designs/inventions are illustrated on panels, which also contain a few paragraphs of text. Each design/invention is represented…
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CPC Behavioral Healthcare, Middletown, will hold its annual “Culinary Adventure,” 6-9 p.m. Oct. 26 at The Sheraton, 6 Industrial Way east, Eatontown. The event will feature CPC’s annual quilt raffle, silent and gift auctions, door prizes, and live music by Dave Miller of Long Branch. The quilt valued at $1,000 and called “Baltimore’s Country Cousin,”…
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Lt. governor candidates back shared services
County residents Guadagno and Esposito in three-way debate at Monmouth U. BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer The state’s three candidates for lieutenant governor, including two local residents, each touted shared services programs between state municipalities and school districts as a way to provide tax relief to New Jersey residents. Lt. governor candidates (l-r) Sen. Loretta…
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Minister and congregation begin new chapter
UUCMC welcomes ‘a woman of quiet strength’ BY LINDA DENICOLA Correspondent Our ancestors understood the importance of stories. It was the way values and mores were passed to future generations before college courses, genealogy searches and the Internet. Above: The Rev. Virginia Harocha-Ernst interacts with a group of young people at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation…
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Boro at work on 2010 budget, new programs
Aim is to offset increases with cost-cutting measures BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer MATAWAN — As 2009 winds down, the Borough Council is already working ahead for the year 2010. Borough Administrator William Garofalo explained at the Oct. 6 meeting that the council is drafting the 2010 budget and working on cost-saving measures for Matawan.…
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Classical Concert Series at Middletown Main Library
The fourth season of classical concerts by the Monmouth Conservatory of Music of Red Bank returns to Middletown Main Library. Sponsored by the Library Foundation, the free concerts feature the finest classical musicians from the region. Reservations are not required. The concert schedule will feature: • Illya Filshtinskiy, pianist. Juilliard graduate and winner of the…
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Local projects receive county planning awards
Middletown’s Port of Belford revitalization plan and Red Bank’s Washington Street Historic District received awards recently at the 56th MonmouthCounty Planning Board Awards Dinner. Middletown’s plan for the revitalization of the Port of Belford has been recognized by the county. The dinner was held at the Robert B. Meyner Reception Center at the PNC Bank…
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Local bridge, road projects to receive funding
Anumber of Monmouth County bridges and other transportation projects have been approved to receive funding for final design, right-of-way acquisition or construction in fiscal years 2010 to 2013 by the New Jersey Transportation PlanningAuthority. A total of 20 transportation projects have made the NJTPA’s list of projects and are included in its annual Transportation Improvement…
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Contractor pleads guilty to embezzlement of union funds
AHolmdel contractor pleaded guilty to federal charges for schemes involving the structuring of over $3.1 million in cash transactions, embezzlement of a union employee benefit plan, tax evasion and making unlawful labor payments, according to acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra Jr. Anthony R. Ambrosio, of Holmdel, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stanley R.…
