Category: Independent News
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Girl Scouts will honor Women of Distinction
The Monmouth Council of Girl Scouts will pay tribute to five women who have achieved extraordinary accomplishments throughout their lifetimes on March 16 at the Deal Country Club during the 19th annual Women of Distinction Dinner. The women are being honored for exemplifying courage, confidence and competence, and for being positive role models to young…
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El Toro roller coaster said to pack plenty of thrills
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF GREAT ADVENTURE An artist’s rendering shows El Toro, a new wooden roller-coaster to be built at Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson. El Toro is expected to open in the spring. JACKSON — In 2006, thrill seekers at the world’s largest regional theme park will challenge El Toro, a new wooden roller coaster…
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Senior issues front and center at Triad meeting
Monmouth County Sheriff Joseph W. Oxley and Executive Director John A. Wanat, Monmouth County Office on Aging, hosted the fourth annual Triad University at the Monmouth County Police Academy, Freehold Township, on Nov. 4. According to a press release, more than 200 law enforcement and senior service professionals from throughout New Jersey attended this annual…
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Barham, Burry keep freeholders all GOP
Challenges by Unger, McMorrow, Aaronson turned back on Nov. 8 BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer Ironically, the most vocal advocate for wholesale change in Monmouth County government may have been the individual who caused that change to be delayed for at least another year. Arguably, Brian Unger, 53, of Long Branch,…
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A Thoreau examination
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Historian Richard Smith, of Concord, Mass., impersonates Henry David Thoreau during the presentation “Dissent in Democracy” in Lincroft Thursday.
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Boro woman tells all about Jewish weddings
Lea Bayers Rapp uses experience, research in newly republished guide BY LAUREN MATTHEW Staff Writer BY LAUREN MATTHEWStaff Writer Lea Bayers Rapp SAYREVILLE — When it comes to Jewish weddings, Lea Bayers Rapp wrote the book. Rapp, 59, a full-time writer who has lived in Sayreville since 1972, was working on bridal articles for magazines…
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Berk seeks recount of Holmdel ballots
With provisionals tallied, incumbent is 26 votes behind BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer Holmdel Deputy Mayor Janet Berk will ask for a recount of the Nov. 8 election results, based on the slim margin that remained after last week’s count of provisional ballots. The provisional ballots put Berk, the Democratic incumbent,…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Middletown’s James Miller, 8, sprints to the finish line during Fairview Elementary School’s annual Turkey Trot on Friday.
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Incumbent Democrats hold seats in Aberdeen
BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer Joseph Raymond ABERDEEN — Residents chose to stick with existing leadership last week by electing all Democratic incumbents for another term. Mayor David Sobel, 58, was elected to his third consecutive term, narrowly defeating Republican challenger Peter Morrison, 48, by fewer than 80 votes. Democratic incumbents…
