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Pantries keep food on table for the new hungry
Growing group of middleand working-class residents relying on food banks BY STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer Volunteers Pat Captain (l) and Tayo Lawson of AT&T help sort donations at the FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties in Neptune. Area food pantries are seeing a greater demand for food among middle- and working-class families. ERIC SUCAR staff…
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sport shorts
U.S. Olympic 800-meter runners in 2012, Nick Symmonds and Duane Solomon, will take aim at the American indoor 600-meter record at the 106th Millrose Games on Feb. 16 at the Armory, N.Y. The record Solomon and Symmonds are looking to take down is 1:15.80, set by Chip Jenkins in 1987. Bernard Legat, who won the…
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Bongiorno’s harness racing career is off to a great start
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer He’s barely 19 and has already earned his first $1 million. Colts Neck’s Joe Bongiorno has taken the harness racing world by storm, becoming the second youngest driver to earn $1 million in purses in this year, his first as a fulltime professional driver. “It’s been unbelievable,” he said of…
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Allentown’s focus shifts from stellar football season to basketball
Varsity Report BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Allentown High School’s Mandy Hornyak (r) goes up for a shot against Manchester Township High School’s Anevea Tinnery (l) during a preseason scrimmage at Allentown on Dec. 6 as the two teams prepped for the start of the regular season. ERIC SUCAR staff Allentown Jay Graber is not about…
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Springsteen, Bon Jovi join N.J. Relief Fund initiative
First Lady Mary Pat Christie, chairwoman of the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, has announced that a number of celebrities, business and community leaders with deep New Jersey roots will join a growing advisory board of the nonprofit charity launched just over two weeks ago to assist in the long-term recovery effort following the…
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New Jersey Holiday Lightfest returns
As seen in TheBeachBeat.com The New Jersey Holiday Lightfest is back at the Middlesex County Fairgrounds, 655 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, and it is bigger and brighter than ever before. The drivethrough light show is open every night of the week through Jan. 6. A benefit for DARE New Jersey, the Gift of Lights drive-through…
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Louis M. Acinapura
Mr. Acinapura, 69, of the Clarksburg section of Millstone Township, died Dec. 5, 2012, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was a graduate of the New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, N.M., and owned and operated Freight Masters of New Jersey, Clarksburg. He was predeceased by his wife of 42 years, Terrie O’Brien Acinapura; a…
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Chhange opens at Brookdale Community College
The Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education (Chhange) at Brookdale Community College would like to invite the community to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for our new Center. Please join us at 10 a.m. Dec. 14 when we will formally celebrate the center’s new home adjacent to the Bankier Library on the Lincroft main campus.…
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Beck eyes land preservation
A state constitutional amendment sponsored by Sen. Jennifer Beck (RMonmouth) to provide incentives for property owners with developable land to preserve their parcels as open space has cleared its first legislative hurdle, according to a Nov. 19 press release. The resolution, SCR-38, which would ask voters to authorize property tax reductions for privately held lands…
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