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Don’t leave pets outside and unsupervised
A llowing dogs and cats outdoors and unsupervised puts them in grave danger. Unattended animals are easy bait for people who cruise neighborhoods to abduct friendly dogs and cats in order to sell them to laboratories for painful experiments. Every day, countless animals are also attacked by predators, used for target practice, stolen to be…
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Get updated on status of Four Ponds appeal
Many residents of Middletown and its vicinity know that on June 20, 2012, the Middletown Planning Board voted 9-0 to reject the application of Four Ponds Associates to build a 342-unit townhouse/apartment complex near the center of the Village of Lincroft. Some of these residents may not know, however, that the applicant has appealed the…
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Evolution should not be taught as fact
I am responding to Greg Bean’s article “What Will You Be Doing on Darwin’s Special Day?” published in the Feb. 7 edition of the Independent. Greg mentions that the American Humanist Association and others are working to get the theory of evolution in its rightful place in our nation’s educational institutions as opposed to creationism…
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Stop the loss of precious land
While I greatly agree with the letter in the Jan. 31 Independent titled, “Tighter Criteria Needed for Housing Project,” that stricter occupancy criteria needs to be met as redevelopment takes place at Lucent, I am mystified by the reality of what has become possible at that 472-acre site. The developer had a previous proposal that…
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Modern solution needed for assault weapons
I am writing in response to “Ban on Assault Weapons Not the Answer” in the Feb. 14 Independent. I am not interested in name-calling, but I must admit that I am emotionally charged when it comes to this issue. My daughter, Julia, was a 23- year-old graduate student at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007,…
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Photo
The monarch butterfly, seen here at the Forsythe National Wildlife Reserve, Oceanville, is one of the few insects capable of making a trans-Atlantic crossing. BILL PATRICK/www.maiseyimages.com
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BRSA moves forward in wake of superstorm
New commissioners, board chairman address $10M repair bill, flood mitigation BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer The Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority Board of Commissioners conducts business in a flood-damaged conference room at its Union Beach treatment facility on Feb. 11. The authority is working to address more than $10 million in storm-related repairs. KEITH HEUMILLER Just…
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Residents protest county plan for Lucent sewers
Mayor says septics would be worse for area watersheds BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Following years of public debate and controversy, Holmdel has officially agreed to a county Wastewater Management Plan (WMP) that, if approved by the state, would bring sewer service to parts of the Alcatel-Lucent property and the PNC Bank Arts…
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Ode to spring
Out with the cold; time to prepare for the perennial rite of spring BY GOTTI KELLEY Correspondent Visitors to the annual New Jersey Flower & Garden Show at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center, Edison, look over display gardens on Feb. 14. ERIC SUCAR staff pring is quietly approaching, but this season does not…
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