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Winner’s Circle Fashion Show Aug. 24
The Monmouth Park Charity Fund will host the annual Winner’s Circle Fashion Show Luncheon at 11 a.m. on Aug. 24 at Monmouth Park in Oceanport. The event will feature fashions by Coldwater Creek and Brooks Brothers. Paul G. Gaffney II, president of Monmouth University, will be the guest speaker. The “Volunteer of the Year Award”…
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Residents may use StringFly program to submit photographs for publication
Greater Media Newspapers is reaching out to the community with the introduction of Greater Media StringFly, a citizen journalism photography program. Greater Media StringFly will give people of all ages and from all communities the opportunity to take photographs of events that occur in their hometown and to submit them to Greater Media Newspapers for…
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Chore-free gardening … an oxymoron?
GREEN SCENE GOTTI KELLEY “Gardening is about enjoying the smellof things growing in the soil, getting dirtywithout feeling guilty, and generally takingthe time to soak up a little peace and serenity.” L. Karstens We constantly look for vibrant flowers that won’t quit despite heat or lack of water. Now here is an improved native winner,…
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World War II veterans receive final resting place at cemetery
BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Marcel Matthew Mazedier, George Furek and Robert Edwards Jennings are finally resting in peace. Almost three decades after their deaths in 1980, 1982 and 1987, respectively, the cremains of the three honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces have been interred at the Brig. Gen. William C. Doyle…
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Paddle the Navesink Day Sept. 8
RED BANK — The third annual Paddle the Navesink Day, a free community-wide celebration of the Navesink River, will be held on Sept. 8., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Maple Cove at the foot of Maple Avenue. Local boating clubs, businesses and organizations along Red Bank’s Navesink River will offer people opportunities to partake…
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Car wash benefits MRHS marching band
Monmouth Regional High School’s Golden Falcon Marching Band will hold a car wash on Sept. 1 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Wayside Fire Company at 2 Volunteer Way, at the corner of Asbury Avenue in Tinton Falls. The band is raising funds for a trip to perform in Florida.
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No closure at Brookdale Community College
The board of trustees would like us all to forget about their complicity in the Burnham affair. Without their tacit approval, or appalling lack of oversight, none of this would ever have happened. Their current PR campaign would have us believe that all is well now, but nothing could be further from the truth. The…
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Where are the next gov’t engineers, scientists?
I have just finished watching the Military Channel’s presentation on the history of our submarine development during the Cold War. We far outdid the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and made it think twice about armed conflict with us. It takes the thinking of many technical minds to complete projects like that. I wonder…
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Horseracing should be state’s winning ticket
Why do Gov. Chris Christie and state Senate President Steve Sweeney continue to block all efforts to put slot machines and table games in at the Meadowlands (racetrack) when Jeff Gural, the operator of the Meadowlands, has said he would pay a 55 percent gaming tax that would generate hundred of millions of dollars? Atlantic…
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