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    Anna Dossantos, of Long Branch, has her face painted by Long Branch High School art teacher Frank Mainieri during the annual Carnival of Hope held at the football stadium June 1 by the school district’s Wave of Hope Foundation to benefit the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Monmouth Medical Center – Children’s Hospital and Project…

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    The Arc of Monmouth will host the third annual Edward M. Rosell Golf Classic on June 11 at the Jumping Brook Country Club, Neptune. The event supports health care, employment and other critical programs for over 1,400 Monmouth County residents with Down syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities. Foursomes and individual slots are still available…

  • Takter trainer of two of four New Jersey Sire Stakes winners

    Colts trained by Hall of Famer Jimmy Takter won two of the four New Jersey Sire Stakes for 3-year-olds June 2 at the Meadowlands. Takter winners were the trotter Little Brown Fox and the pacer Time To Roll Personal Style, a daughter of Yankee Glide, caught 8-5 favorite Riverfest [Windsong’s Legacy] in the stretch and…

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    Lil Kiara (No. 6) with Carlos Marquez Jr. storms past Emily Allstar (No. 1) and Paco Lopez to win the $60,000 Open Mind Handicap at Monmouth Park on June 3. BILL DENVER/EQUI-PHOTO

  • Art Show

    The annual art show at Roosevelt Public School boasted a wide variety of styles and media. SCOTT FRIEDMAN Diane Lowrie and son Iain check out a book of symbolic self-portraits during the annual art show at Roosevelt Public School on May 30. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Disaster averted

    Members of the Millstone Township Fire Department and the Cassville Fire Department of Jackson respond to the scene of a taxicab that caught fire June 2 at the intersection of Route 537 and I-195. No one was injured. PHOTO COURTESY OF MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT

  • Law bans selling horses for human consumption

    Sending a message that New Jersey does not eat horse meat, the GeneralAssembly approved bipartisan legislation May 24 that would ban the slaughter or sale of horses for human consumption. Assemblyman Ronald S. Dancer, (R- 12) introduced the measure, A-2023, after a federal ban was lifted last fall that reverses a 2006 decision by Congress…

  • Weekly playgroup offered by MOMS Club

    The MOMS Club of Hamilton holds a weekly playgroup from 10 a.m. to noon everyWednesday. The playgroup is held in a clean and safe environment, courtesy of the township. For more information, email [email protected].

  • Daisy troop brings spring to Wagner Farm Park

    BY SARAWALLACH Correspondent Lindsay Doonan (front) and Ryann Keefe, members of Millstone Daisy Troop 47, plant flowers around the flagpole at Wagner Farm Park. MILLSTONE — Daisy Troop 47 of Millstone planted flowers at Wagner Farm Park on Saturday, May 12, and effectively “[made] the world a better place,” troop leader Gina Whalen said. Troop…

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