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Students to follow physicians
LAKEWOOD – Kimball Medical Center has announced that its physician shadowing program – Project Medicine – is now accepting junior and senior students from Lakewood, Jackson, Howell and Freehold high schools who wish to pursue a career in medicine. Launched in the spring of 2004, Project Medicine is a mentoring program for students and physicians.…
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Obituaries
Francis Michael Mulligan Mr. Mulligan, 84, of Wilsonville, Ore., died Oct. 10, 2006, at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, Ore. He was born in Freehold and resided there before joining the U.S. Army during World War II. He moved to Oakland, Calif., in 1960 and to Wilsonville in 2002. He served as a paratrooper…
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District drums up interest in new music curriculum
BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Marlboro Memorial Middle School sixth-graders Jordan Mankes and Jane Posner show their percussion skills during a session of the new World Music Drumming program. By Tali Israeli MARLBORO – Students were shaking things up last week during an introduction to a new music…
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Foundation awards grants
Students across Ocean and Monmouth counties will see upgrades to their school libraries and media centers. OceanFirst Foundation has awarded $330,000 in grants and gift certificates as part of its second annual Library/Media Center Enhancement Grant Program. Recipients were announced at a reception hosted by OceanFirst Foundation for more than 250 representatives of schools in…
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WMUA commissioners respond to letter
It is the election season, and once again the commissioners of the Western Monmouth Utilities Authority (WMUA) have become fodder for baseless political attacks. What is unfortunate about this year’s attack, by former Commissioner Joel Schechter no less, is that criticisms are so ill-informed and inaccurate. We expect more of our former commissioner. First, since…
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Customers are paying for a service they use
For nearly 10 years, New Jersey American Water has provided an essential service to residents of Howell. We have done so in a professional manner, always looking for ways to improve our services. After acquiring the Howell municipal water system, we immediately reduced water rates by 5 percent. In doing so, our customers across the…
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State senator responds to claim in candidate’s election literature
A recent political mailer was distributed to the residents of Manalapan by the Republican candidate for Town-ship Committee. One article in her mailer focused on the problems that occurred last month at the Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School (MEMS). I was shocked to learn that Nikki Pezzullo, the Republican candidate, seems to claim sole responsibility for sounding…
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Pezzullo wants to dedicate herself to improving town
Despite another last minute, desperate attempt by the Democratic political boss, Gerard Ward, to prevent Manalapan from having a choice in selecting a Township Committee candidate, the courts ruled that Nikole Pezzullo resides in Manalapan and therefore is registered and eligible to vote in any election she so chooses in Manalapan. It was proved that…
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Candidates should not keep party affiliation a secret
We have been receiving scads of campaign fliers and literature for state and local candidates that come around this time every year. What’s interesting about the signs and literature this year is not what’s said – the usual blather about protecting Man-alapan and New Jersey from rampant development – but what is not said. In…
