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Cars that can go the distance
By Jim Gorzelany CTW Features Today’s autos are engineered to last longer than ever; here are a few that can reasonably be expected to keep running for 250,000 miles or more with proper care. Just as human life expectancy has risen dramatically in recent decades, our cars are lasting for many tens of thousands of…
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Q&A
Mid-priced Mercedes with Sharon Peters Q: Our 29-year-old salesman son says that this fall he’s going to buy a new Mercedes. When we expressed concern that he wasn’t quite in a financial position yet to be strapping himself to payments for a $40,000 car, he assured us that he’s aware of that and that this…
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Buyers jump at first ownership opportunity at Pier Village community in Long Branch
The recent grand opening of sales at 55 Melrose, a new collection of luxury condominium residences located within the Pier Village oceanfront community in Long Branch, has attracted a high level of interest, with 40 percent of the residences already sold. Representing the first ownership opportunity at the premier Jersey Shore lifestyle destination, 55 Melrose…
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Comets have brought pro fastpitch softball to N.J.
By NEIL BORENSTEIN The NY/NJ Comets have brought professional softball to the Northeast as the newest addition to National Pro Fastpitch (NPF), totaling 16 home games between four venues in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania during their inaugural campaign in 2013. “I called the commissioner of [NPF], Cheri Kempf, and inquired why the Northeast…
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Redbirds start summer workouts in preparation for football season
By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent A llentown High School football coach Jay Graber experienced a familiar start to the team’s summer workouts compared to the previous two years, with plenty of familiar names and faces from his first season with the Redbirds. However, many of the players Graber got to know and who became major forces…
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Summer league basketball
Players from Allentown High School and Monroe Township High School watch a shot heading for the basket as they look to position themselves for a rebound during the June 27 Boys High School Summer League game at the Monroe Sports Complex. High school teams are getting their first looks at the 2013-14 season. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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ON CAMPUS
Karisa Galvano of Allentown has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, S.C. Carla Breccia of Allentown was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical sciences from Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Conn. Lauren Mruk of Allentown was named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at…
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JUST GO
SPECIAL EVENTS Oceanfest master sand-sculpting exhibition; entertainment includes bands, clowns, face painters, stilt-walkers, balloon artists and more; food; crafters; fireworks July 4, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Promenade, Long Branch Independence Day Celebration July 4 fishing derby at 6 a.m. 34th annual Milltown Firecracker fun run at 7:45 a.m., and 5K run at 8:15 a.m.; parade at…
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Charlotte Sometimes is always about the music
By REGINA YORKGITIS Staff Writer Charlotte Sometimes CeeLo Green’s head bopped, Adam Levine’s jaw dropped, and before the song ended, four music superstars had spun around to fight over a Jersey girl. “You get down on yourself a lot in music,” Asbury Park resident Charlotte Sometimes said. Not on this night in February 2012, when…
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