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Next Stop: Polar Express
DINNIGAN’S DIVERSIONS LIZZ DINNIGAN Mark your calendars now as a reminder to buy your Polar Express tickets for next year. Tickets, which are sold out for 2012, go on sale Aug. 1, 2013. The Polar Express offers an enchanting afternoon train ride for the whole family. The experience for us began the week before our…
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Sandy Hook open by summer?
Pallone, park employees and nonprofits push for Memorial Day opening BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Signs of storm damage are evident on Officer’s Row at Fort Hancock, where park employees and their families lived until the storm surge created by superstorm Sandy flooded the area with more than 13 feet of water. PHOTOS BY KEITH…
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Storm costs could be catastrophic
What will Sandy and the nor’easter cost us? Just when we thought that most of us survived the worst ecological catastrophe America has ever known, get ready for the next catastrophe; the financial catastrophe! At a time when the national deficit is at an alltime high, the last thing we needed was a hurricane followed…
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If you’re not part of solution, you’re part of the problem
CODA GREG BEAN You’ll have to excuse me for a moment until this case of the black whirlies passes and my equilibrium returns to something resembling normal. I always wondered what it would feel like to fall down the rabbit hole like Alice did, and now I know. It’s not that much fun. I put…
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Displaced residents move into temporary housing
BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer The first mobile home provided by FEMA as temporary housing for residents displaced by Sandy arrives at Woodlawn Village in Eatontown on Dec. 15. STEVE ZUMWALT/FEMA Residents displaced by superstorm Sandy were slated to begin moving into temporary housing units at Fort Monmouth and a manufactured home in Eatontown in…
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New Year’s Beach Walk in Long Branch Jan. 1
LONG BRANCH — The American Littoral Society will hold its 35th annual Dery Bennett Memorial New Year’s Day Beach Walk at Seven Presidents Park in Long Branch, on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, starting at 11 a.m. “In spite of Sandy, we are headed back to the beach,” said Tim Dillingham, executive director, “In fact,…
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Law enforcement puts brakes on large-scale heroin operation
52 individuals charged following lengthy investigation BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Monmouth County Acting Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni delivered a message to drug dealers on Dec. 17 when he said, “This isn’t going to happen in Monmouth County. Don’t bring it here. We will find you. We will arrest you. We will put you…
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Images of 2012
Clockwise from top left: Members of the Shore Regional High School girls soccer team celebrate a goal in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I final on Nov. 20. Long Branch Middle School students wait for the start of the Spring Concert on May 22. Shore Regional High School Blue Devils comfort a teammate after losing…
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