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    Justine Benedicks of Howell graduated from Georgian Court University, Lakewood, with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and art. Justine was named to “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges” in acknowledgement of her academic excellence and involvement in the Georgian Court community. She was inducted into several national honor societies, including Phi…

  • Views

    A quiet winter beach rental with $1 million view? Not here Jack Murtha My friends, Kevin and Rob, and I signed a lease that was supposed to land us in a beautiful winter rental apartment in Manasquan’s beachfront neighborhood by Nov. 1. The building inspection had been scheduled for Oct. 29 — the day superstorm…

  • Christmas can be celebrated by people of good will

    Turn on Fox News this holiday season and you will hear Republican pundit Bill O’Reilly tell you that Christmas is once again under attack from secularists and those awful atheists who are trying to steal Christmas. Secularists and atheists are not trying to steal anything, nor is Christmas under attack. Both groups are quite willing…

  • CODA

    Trying to come to grips with the unthinkable GREG BEAN I think I probably started writing this column 50 times in the last few days, but nothing seemed to work. I was writing about the incomprehensibility of municipalities like Marlboro selling solar energy credits, but by the third paragraph, I found myself simply staring at…

  • Farmland preservation efforts advance

    The Garden State Preservation Trust recently approved a request for $3.6 million to help Monmouth County, several towns and one nonprofit organization preserve farmland across the county as part of New Jersey’s efforts to further farmland preservation, Agriculture Secretary Douglas H. Fisher announced. “Farmland is the foundation for agriculture and for so many of the…

  • Longest-tenured Monmouth employee concludes career

    Freehold’s Marion Vinyard has worked for elections department since 1961 BY JOSEPH SAPIA Correspondent Marion Vinyard I t took more than a half-century, but it finally is happening: Marion Brown Vinyard is retiring from Monmouth County government. Her last day on the job as an elections worker, an area she has worked in all her…

  • JMHS seniors prove practice can make perfect on SAT

    BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer JACKSON — Practice paid off for Jackson Memorial High School seniors Robert Aguilar and Kevin Doherty, who each recently earned a perfect score of 800 on a portion of the SAT and/or on an SAT subject test. The regular SAT consists of three sections: mathematics, critical reading and writing. Students…

  • Jewish composers to be celebrated

    The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, Freehold Township, will host “Musical Mishpucha: The Classical Influence on the Great American Songbook” on Jan. 6 at 2 p.m. Long-time museum friends Alan Wasserman, Bethe Burns and Vic Schioppo will celebrate the music of Jewish composers, spanning different genres and more than 80 years of American popular…

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