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YMCA sponsors Safe Sitter Course Aug. 5
RED BANK — The Community YMCA is offering a Safe Sitter course at the Family Health and Wellness Center in Red Bank. Safe Sitter is a babysitter-training program for adolescents ages 11-14. Nationally, the Safe Sitter program has graduated more than 600,000 teens who are able to stay home alone safely and handle emergencies when…
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Ocean Township Library to host August programs
Ocean Township Library, 701 Deal Road, will host the following programs in August: Dino Dig — 5 p.m. Aug. 5 Participants can join paleontologists Mike and Roberta Straka on a fun-filled adventure and meet Mr. Nixon, a triceratops skull discovered in 1966. For grades K-6. First Monday Writers’ Group — 7 p.m. Aug. 5 Fiction,…
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Securing the future of the T. Thomas Fortune house
By ARIANA IGNERI Staff Writer Once the residence of prominent journalist, writer and civil rights activist T. Thomas Fortune, the 19th-century, Victorian-style house on Drs. James Parker Boulevard in Red Bank is currently the subject of an active preservation project. Protecting Fortune’s influential legacy in the nation’s past has become, for many, synonymous with saving…
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STORK CLUB
RiverView Medical Center, Red Bank, announced the following births: June 18, a girl to Lynette Rocha and Luis Pereira of Eatontown; June 24, a boy to Allison and Robert Harper Jr. of Ocean; June 29, a girl to Leah E. Graham and Brian A. DeSarno of Ocean. Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, announced the…
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Sea Bright downtown to receive paint makeover
By NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer Façades in downtown Sea Bright, which were heavily damaged during Sandy, will get a fresh look, thanks to Benjamin Moore’s Main Street Matters initiative. SEA BRIGHT — The borough’s downtown will get spruced up sometime in 2013- 14 with a fresh coat of paint. Sea Bright is among 20 towns…
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Long Branch library hosts August programs
The Long Branch Free Public Library will host the following August programs at its branches: Main Library, 328 Broadway, in the Children’s Room: A Visit with the Department of Public Works, 4 p.m. Aug. 1 A Visit from the Long Branch Fire Department, 4 p.m. Aug. 8 Full Effects Magic Show, 4…
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Sandy fraud task force charges local contractor
The Monmouth County Superstorm Sandy Task Force has charged a Toms River man with providing a fraudulent insurance certificate and working as an unregistered contractor after state authorities revoked his registration, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced. Shane Wood, 48, of Sharon Drive in Toms River, was charged July 25 after an investigation…
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West Long Branch Library to host August events
The West Long Branch Library will hold the following events in August: Dino Dig — 2 p.m. Aug. 5 Paleontologists Mike and Roberta Straka will lead an amazing journey back in time. Fossils, music, puppets, showand tell and a touch of magic make dinosaurs come to life. Participants can see the skulls of a real…
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Support animal protection legislation and vote
Gov. Chris Christie is no friend to animals. He recently vetoed legislation that would have banned the cruel practice of raising sows in gestation crates. The ban had overwhelmingly passed both state houses (Assembly, 60-5; and Senate, 29-4). But instead of living cage-free, these unfortunate female pigs, which are raised on factory farms, will continue…
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