Category: Independent News
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Deadline is Jan. 2 to sign up for master gardener program
The Monmouth County Master Gardener Program is accepting applications for 2008. The deadline to apply is Jan. 2. Master gardeners are experts in all things related to home gardening in Monmouth County. After completing classroom and hands-on training, master gardeners share their knowledge with others by conducting garden lectures, demonstrations, school and community gardening projects,…
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“Jack o’ all shades”
“Jack o’ all shades” Brianna Manginelli, 4, of Marlboro, paints a pumpkin at Thompson Park Day in Lincroft on Sunday. CHRIS KELLY staff
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OMG, MCAC finds a gr8 way 2 K.I.T. w/teens
Arts council uses new media to connect teens with the arts BY KATHY HALL Correspondent Anyone who spends time around teenagers “cn c” that they communicate differently from the rest of us. Above: Teens participate in an improv exercise at the Teen Arts Festival. MySpace pages, YouTube videos and instant messages that are incomprehensible to…
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Retirement: the ‘third age’
Brookdale launches Center for Creative Retirement BY LINDA DeNICOLA Correspondent There has never been a better time to be retired or be about to retire in Monmouth County. Everyone is beginning to catch on to the fact that retired people have a lot to offer and the time to devote to the possibilities inherent in…
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Shore history the theme of Squires Luncheon
WEST LONG BRANCH – Gamblers, bathers, rogues and presidents – the original “bennies” – had an enormous impact on modern Monmouth County. They populated the mansions and boarding houses and established the world-renowned resorts that made the county and its shore the place to be. “Monmouth County is a wonderful place to live, and we…
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Library exhibit focuses on changes at Jersey Shore
MANALAPAN – When historians consider the Jersey Shore in Monmouth County, they tend to think first about the 1870s and 1880s. That’s when the Jersey Shore, along with Newport, R.I., and Saratoga, N.Y., became one of the most popular vacation destinations on the eastern seaboard, due in part to the hoopla surrounding Ulysses S. Grant’s…
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Sgt. named employee of year
MIDDLETOWN – Sgt. Richard Deickmann has been named Middletown’s Employee of the Year for his successful negotiating with a man who was contemplating suicide in his driveway with a shotgun. On May 1, Middletown received a 911 call that a 60-year-old man was sitting in a vehicle in his own driveway with a shotgun to…
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Ex-officer hurt at gun range
MIDDLETOWN – A man taking part in a routine qualification exercise with the Retired Officers Association at a township firing range accidentally fired a bullet in his own leg. G. Kevin Calogera, 54, was holstering his weapon on Friday when he accidentally left his finger inside the trigger guard and pulled the trigger, discharging the…
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Crash claims H.S. North student, 16
Car carrying three Middletown girls left road, struck pole BY BRIAN DONAHUE & JAMIE ROMM Staff Writers A16-year-old Middletown girl died and another was critically injured Saturday night after the car they were passengers in went off the road and struck a light stanchion behind the Brunswick Square Mall. Dana Centanni, a resident of the…
