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Conservation District offers scholarships
The Freehold Soil Conservation District will award three $2,000 scholarships to students majoring in a conservation-related field in the summer of 2012. The Neal Munch, Mac Clark and Bill Schauer scholarships are awarded annually to honor their years of dedicated and distinguished service to the Freehold District and to conservation. This will mark the 33rd…
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Evidence-based anti-bullying program to launch in Millstone next year
Township resident to administer ‘gold standard’ program for bullying prevention BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — A program aimed at stopping bullying in its tracks is set to launch at the beginning of the coming school year in township schools. Helen Varvi, a township resident who works for Prevention First, an Ocean Township based nonprofit…
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‘Reading is fundamental!’
Millstone Elementary School fifth-grader Gianna Pallante and Millstone Primary School second-grader Stephone Riviere share a laugh as they read a story together during a Read Across America event at the primary school March 2. Vanessa Colamarino (l) and Melissa Bernieri, second-graders at Millstone Primary School, are decked out as their favorite Dr. Seuss characters during…
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St. Patrick’s Day arrived early in Woodbridge when the community hosted the 39th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade on March 11. George Lara, 3, of Cedar Grove, waves the Irish flag. St. Patrick’s Day is March 17. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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Veterans of Iraq War deserve a welcome-home parade
Now that the Iraq War is officially over, I, along with my fellow comrades at Hamilton’s Veterans of Foreign War (VFW) Post 3525, officially request a Welcome Home Hometown Heroes Parade for all area IraqWar veterans. This would include service members who supported the war under Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and New Dawn, and…
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Parent group advocates for kids with dyslexia
Decoding Dyslexia-NJ (DDNJ) is part of a national wave of parent-driven energy that is sparking awareness and pushing hard for public policy changes. DDNJ is a grassroots movement driven by New Jersey parents of dyslexic children who want to empower other parents, educate the public, and persuade policymakers to change the state’s educational system. These…
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Freeholders introduce 2012 county budget
The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders has introduced a $487.35 million budget for 2012. The budget contains a $4.15 million decrease in spending from 2011 and marks the second year in a row the amount to be raised by taxation has not increased. The vote to introduce the budget was 5-0. According to a press…
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Tax cheats: you’ll know ’em by the fancy cars they drive
CODA GREG BEAN I t took me a long time to understand why the Republican presidential candidates — and others in that party — are dead set on protecting the 1 percent of rich people they’re so worried about from having to pay a fair percentage of income tax, but now I get it. I…
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Press flowers at next Garden Club meeting
Melissa Rehl of Rehl Farms, an expert in drying and preserving flowers, will demonstrate how pressing flowers is a way to bring the color of the garden into the home, at the April 12 meeting of the Allentown Garden Club. Rehl will also provide materials and demonstrate and guide the making of a small dried-flower…
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