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Music festival to showcase Shore bands, national acts
By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer River City Extension CORY ASRAF Some of New Jersey’s finest musical acts will converge at Lakewood’s FirstEnergy Park, home of the Blue- Claws, for the inaugural Jersey Shore Music Festival on July 20. Founded by Jersey Shore natives Joe Ciano, Cory Pedalino and Tyler Culley, the event aims to bolster…
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Jersey Shore Toastmasters debut new name, welcome new members
The Jersey Shore Toastmasters Club, formerly the Lakewood Piners Toastmasters Club, has announced its new name. The club, which was chartered in 1985 as part of Toastmasters International, a nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network, believes the “Jersey Shore” name more accurately represents the broad geographic reach…
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Water quality report available
MANALAPAN — United Water has announced that the company’s annual Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) is available online for customers. The report details the quality of drinking water provided to customers during 2012. United Water Manalapan is a partnership with Manalapan Township, according to a press release. “We are pleased to advise our customers that our…
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βArt Like You Love It!β
“Church and Barn, Peacham, Vt.” The current exhibit at the Red Horse Gallery in Freehold Township features paintings created by local artist Tim Belding, along with artwork created by students of LADACIN Network in Ocean Township and students of ASAH, an association of private schools and agencies serving people with disabilities. The exhibit will run…
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VETStock will raise funds for wounded war heroes
By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Brian Brennan of Howell was 23 years old when he was severely injured in an IED attack while leading a U.S. Army patrol in Afghanistan on May 7, 2008. Brennan, who was a first lieutenant at the time the vehicle in which he was riding detonated an improvised explosive…
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Revolutionary War notable to be honored in Freehold
Dr. Nathaniel Scudder signed Articles of Confederation By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — He walked the streets that Freehold Borough residents walk today. He lived in a homestead that is now the location of the borough’s government. He was one of two men from New Jersey who signed the new nation’s Articles of…
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Resident reports theft of jewelry
MANALAPAN — On June 24 at 8:37 a.m. a Manalapan police officer responded to a residence on Dartmoor Drive for a report of a theft of property. According to information provided by police, a resident told the officer that over the course of the last nine months, $31,700 worth of jewelry had been removed from…
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Q&A
Top down with Sharon Peters Q: We want to buy a second car — a convertible because finally, in our 50s, we’ve managed to buy into a beach house and we want to do the fun-in-the-sun thing fully. We want a new convertible, not used, but we’ve got to stay at $25,000 or less, and…
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Art by Monmouth seniors on display at library in July
By AMY ROSEN Staff Writer The 2013 Monmouth County Senior Citizen Art Contest and Exhibition, sponsored by the Monmouth County Office on Aging, is now on display at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan. The public is welcome to view 97 pieces of artwork on exhibit in the art room through July…
