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Jackson graduates leading the way on Kean’s baseball team
By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Three players from the same town on a national caliber college baseball team is uncommon, but the fact that all three players on Kean University’s roster from Jackson are batting in the top of the order may be unprecedented. “It’s really cool. We were the ‘Jackson Three,’” said center fielder and…
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Ex-Warrior Bausher takes leading role on the mound at Lehigh
By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Former New Egypt High School standout Emily Bausher is now a starring player for the Lehigh University softball team. The sophomore pitcher was named to the All-Patriot League First Team after a season in which she went 15-7 and pitched to a 1.60 ERA. LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS I t was a…
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Internet users warned to visit correct website for MVC
To protect customers from potential hassles, the Christie Administration has issued a reminder to people to conduct transactions only on the official Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) website, www.njmvc.gov, as well as two sister websites, www.njinspections.com and www.njridesafe.org. The MVC site is available to customers 24 hours a day, seven days a week and offers a…
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Freedom Fest State Fair returns to Upper Freehold
This year’s Freedom Fest State Fair has returned to the Horse Park of New Jersey, Route 524, Upper Freehold Township. Musical acts will perform in the main arena, and fairgoers can sit in the covered pavilion while enjoying the concerts. The event runs through July 14. On July 11, “Country & Western Night” with Lindsay…
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Another sad fact of aging: gravity
ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch Growing old is no picnic, I’ll give you that. There’s the loss of up-close vision, the graying of hair, and I really miss my memory. At least I think I do. Then there are the aches and pains. Lately I’ve had a crimp in my neck, a throbbing in…
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Education center to host summer family programs
JACKSON — The Forest Resource Education Center (FREC) will host a series of free educational programs for families at its facility on Don Connor Boulevard in Jackson. Every Wednesday at 10 a.m. during July and August, FREC naturalists will provide programs at the 900-acre forested property that includes an interpretive center and a state tree…
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Jackson resident charged in child porn investigation
Following a month-long investigation into the distribution and possession of child pornography throughout Ocean County, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office announced the arrests of five individuals. Officials said John Rupert Woods, 25, of Jackson, had been under surveillance by detectives in the prosecutor’s office High- Tech Crime Unit (HTCU) when he was apprehended on May…
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Isabella Grace Martin
Isabella Grace Martin, 2, of Jackson, died June 25, 2013, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Surviving are her parents, Scott and Debbie Hertkorn Martin; four sisters, Emily, Ashley, Amanda and Kaylee; two brothers, Sean and Bryan; her maternal grandparents, Donald and Betty Hertkorn of Yardley, Pa.; her paternal grandmother, Beverly Martin of Jackson; and…
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Edna Frances Howard Holstein
Mrs. Holstein, 94, of Jackson, died June 21, 2013, at Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. She was employed by the original Point Pleasant Hospital for 30 years, retiring in 1978, and was one of the first female police officers in the New Jersey pilot program in Point Pleasant in the late 1950s. She was predeceased by…
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