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Gift card bingo at Regal Pointe Jan. 10
A Gift Card Bingo will be held Jan. 10 from 1-3 p.m. at Regal Pointe Independent Living, 1800 Route 35 south, Middletown. Gift cards from ShopRite will be given out as prizes. This event is free and open to the public. Dessert and coffee will be served. Seating is limited. For more information or to…
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Social Action Film Series continues Jan. 27
MIDDLETOWN — The Social Action Film Series continues at 5 p.m. Jan. 27 at the Unitarian meetinghouse, 1475 W. Front Street, with a screening of “Vegucated.” Part sociological experiment and part adventure comedy, “Vegucated” follows average New Yorkers who agree to try a vegan diet for six weeks. Originally seeking health and beauty, they also…
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Books, instruments, supplies pour in for displaced students
Union Beach superintendent calls for federal aid BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer UNION BEACH — While many in the Bayshore area wait on insurance companies and national relief organizations for stormrelated aid, volunteer groups and ordinary citizens are still making a big difference. In Union Beach, where the public school district’s sole institution — the…
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Utility responds to call for changes following Sandy
Middletown’s Fiore says utility’s initiatives are ‘a good start’ BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer The parking lot at Monmouth Park in Oceanport provided a staging area for utility trucks and a shelter for several thousand out-of-area workers involved in restoring power in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. BILL DENVER/EQUIPHOTO Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L)…
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N.J. American expedites pipe replacement in Aberdeen
Multiple water-main breaks disrupt service in Strathmore section BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer ABERDEEN — Local officials will meet with representatives of New Jersey American Water (NJAW) this week to review the utility’s $2.2 million capital improvement plans, after multiple water-main breaks in the Strathmore section of the township left hundreds without water over the…
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CODA
This is what happens when the GOP is in total control GREG BEAN So there was the state of my nativity, Wyoming, in the news again last night for yet another wacky law they’re considering — this time a bill sponsored by eight members of the state House of Representatives and two state senators declaring…
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Placing armed officers in America’s schools will not solve problems
Placing armed police officers or security guards in schools is foolhardy and leaves a board of education and town open to huge lawsuits if a shooting does occur. Also, police officers give students and parents a false sense of security. No one could have prevented or stopped the Newtown, Conn., incident, except for Nancy Lanza,…
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Banning assault weapons is not the answer
I write in response to the letter, “Time to Ban Assault Weapons,” published in the Jan. 10 Independent. I am one of the “small-minded, paranoid individuals” referred to in that letter that happens to support the Constitution of the U.S. wholeheartedly. I may not personally agree with everything in it, but years ago I took…
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Storm, Newtown put focus on mental health
Recent events such as superstorm Sandy and the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., have brought the subject of mental health care to the forefront. Unfortunately, the focus on mental health care and mental wellness usually only occurs after highly visible tragic events. The fact is that while behavioral health treatment needs…
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