Category: Tri-Town News
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Humanity award announced
The Standardbred Retirement Foun-dation (SRF) announced Dec. 31 as the deadline for nominations for its 2005 Humanity Award. The award recognizes people who have demonstrated exceptional care and compassion for standardbred horses, according to Barbara J. Luna, SRF’s business manager. SRF will accept nominations for the award from members of the equine community nationwide, Luna…
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Monmouth U. hosts domestic violence awareness kickoff
President: Abuse demeans abused and abuser BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer PHOTOSBYMIGUEL JUAREZ staff At left, Anna Diaz-White, executive director of 180 Turning Lives Around, and student Joe Bucher, president of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity, listen to speakers at “Coaching Boys Into Men,” sponsored by 180 and its Men’s Task Force…
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Museums preserve military history
The National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey offers three locations for residents to visit to learn about the state’s military history, with specific historical significance to the Army National Guard, the Air National Guard, and the Naval Militia of New Jersey. The museum’s primary location is on the campus of the National Guard Training…
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Council begins to fill open chair positions
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — The Township Council has begun to fill municipal committee chairmanships that came open in the past month during a series of resignations. The following residents stepped down: Sharon Carpenter-Migliaccio left her position as chairwoman of the Affordable Housing Committee (AHC); Phil Sanfil-ippo resigned as…
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Benefit wrestling show set
JACKSON — Deputy Mayor Mike Kafton is teaming up with Six Flags Great Adventure and the East Coast Professional Wrestling association to raise money to help those families who were forced to flee New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. “We want everybody to come out to Great Adventure on Oct. 28 and help those families who…
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A river is raging
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff A week’s worth of rain swelled the Manasquan River and sent it over its banks behind Howell High School, Squankum-Yellowbrook Road, Howell, on Oct. 14.
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Howell candidate will meet with residents on Oct. 26
Howell Councilman Wayne Lucey, who is seeking election to a one-year term on the Township Council, will hold a Meet the Candidate event at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 at Our House Tavern, Route 524, Howell. Lucey was appointed to the council earlier this year to fill the seat that came open after former Councilman Joseph…
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Dec. seminars will focus on horse industry
The Rutgers Equine Science Center at Cook College will sponsor two educational seminars on Dec. 13. Both events will take place at the New Jersey Museum of Agriculture on the Cook College campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, according to Diana M. Orban Brown, the center’s director of communications. The first seminar, Equine Management Update,…
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In the Service
Air Force Airman Christopher E. Simmons has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. During the six weeks of training, the airman studied the Air Force mission, organization, and military customs and courtesies; performed drill and ceremony marches, and received physical training, rifle marksmanship, field training exercises, and special…
