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Changes for The Beach Beat.com
editorial I n June, Greater Media Newspapers, which publishes 10 newspapers and produces one online newspaper, launched The Beach Beat.com, an online magazine that expanded the company’s traditional coverage areas within Monmouth, Ocean and Middlesex counties to Monmouth County’s Shore towns, and farther south to Point Pleasant, Seaside Heights and Atlantic City. A new…
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CODA
A grown-up solution to the question of debates GREG BEAN A s a self-admitted political junkie, I watched about a bajillion debates among candidates during the last presidential election cycle, and like lots of folks suffering my malady, I often came away feeling like I hadn’t learned much about the politicians who wanted my vote…
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datebook
Bartley Healthcare, 175 Bartley Road, Jackson, will participate in the Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys For Tots program through Dec. 14. Community members are encouraged to bring new, unwrapped gifts for infants to 15-year-olds to either the collection box in the main lobby of Bartley Healthcare or at the entrance to the Post Acute unit.…
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Plumsted adds makeup days
BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer PLUMSTED — When Post-Tropical Storm Sandy hit Ocean County on Oct. 29, followed by a significant nor’easter that arrived on Nov. 7, the two storms disrupted more than just power for thousands of people. School calendars in the county and throughout New Jersey had to be reworked to make up…
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Baker Street Irregular to discuss Sherlock Holmes
I t’s elementary, my dear readers. Those fascinated by the timeless tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes may wish to attend the Dec. 1 lecture featuring Dr. Robert Moss, Sherlock Holmes aficionado and Baker Street Irregular — the Holmes fan club — at a meeting of Sisters in Crime/Central Jersey chapter. The lecture…
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Holiday Express delivers music, magic of season
Music troupe rocks 800th party during its 20th season BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer On Christmas Eve 1990, Tim McLoone was asked to take part in a charity event for the homeless in Newark. It was a night that would change his life. “We had a room with about 500 people in it, and all…
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FRHSD moving forward on teacher evaluation plan
BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer When the 2013-14 school year begins, educators throughout New Jersey will be judged through a variety of comprehensive evaluation systems as mandated by the state Department of Education (DOE). The Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education has adopted the Marzano Causal Teacher Evaluation Model and Principal Evaluation Instrument…
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Devastation in Belmar shocking to volunteers
Group from local church offered solace & helping hand to stunned residents BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer This photograph, taken on Nov. 10, shows damage to a home in Belmar, one of the Jersey Shore towns that was hit hard by Post-Tropical Storm Sandy on Oct. 29. The Rev. Jeffrey Philhower put into practice…
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