Category: Independent News
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Martial Arts with Hearts fundraiser
MIDDLETOWN – The fourth annual Martial Arts With Hearts (MAWH) fundraising event will take place Sunday, Jan. 27, at the Collins Arena located at Brookdale Community College’s Lincroft campus. The event will showcase the talents of martial arts students and instructors, while culminating this year’s fundraising efforts. Students will perform with weapons and demonstrate various…
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Stalking bill expected to be reintroduced
BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Although it received last-minute unanimous passage in the lame duck state Assembly with an 80-0 vote, bill A- 4354, which sought to increase the penalties and alter the definition of stalking, died due to lack of time and a lack of action in the state Senate. The billwas introduced in…
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Call for EyeSights 2008
The call for submittals is open for EyeSights 2008, the 5th Annual Open Juried Photography Show and Exhibit presented by the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury. This year’s expanded competition will award prizes in color and black & white categories and is open to both members and non-members. The prospectus is available by PDF…
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Experience Latin America
Monmouth U. explores Peru and Brazil in multifaceted events The art, people and culture of LatinAmerica will be the focus of “LatinAmerican Realities,” a monthlong program of events that will explore the art, people and culture of Peru and Brazil. Perú Negro Presented by Monmouth University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences,History andAnthropology Department and…
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ERIC SUCAR staff Matt Boyle (l-r), Devon Meza, Gabriella Malinconicio, Alison Belen and Alex Galarza, brainstorm story ideas Jan. 17 as second-grade students from Village School in Holmdel help kindergartners at Keyport Central School develop story-writing skills.
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‘We have to listen to his words, not just extol them’
Rep. Holt tells Community YMCA at MLK memorial BY MELISSA KARSH Staff Writer The Community YMCA (CYMCA) 19th annual Memorial Breakfast celebrating the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. started off with hushed rumblings about the Giants’ leap to the Super Bowl and ended with everyone on their feet, slapping hands together…
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Future ofMain Street a priority for Buccellato
Victor in mayoral runoff sworn in Tuesday BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Newly elected Republican Mayor Paul Buccellato has high hopes for Matawan and the Main Street and train station areas, now that he is the official mayor. Paul Buccellato Buccellato ousted Democratic incumbent Mary Aufseeser by 50 votes in the Jan. 15 mayoral…
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Three ‘kings’ talk local, world news on cable TV
‘Real Talk’ news show broadcasts to local audience BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Savino Cuppari (l-r), and brothers Steve Perri and Jim Perri, known on air as Savy, Andy and Eddie, talk politics – local and national – on their own cable TV show. “Real Talk” is broadcast from Steve’s basement studio…
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Debate continues on future of Lucent tract
Committee sends back report with request for less housing BY ERIN O. STATTEL Correspondent HOLMDEL – Plans for the Lucent property are once again back on the drawing board after some deliberation at last Thursday’s Township Committee meeting. The 472-acre tract that is the former site of Lucent Technologies is back on the market after…
