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ARE WE THERE YET
It was no time to wear cute shoes LORI CLINCH We’re recently returned home from a four-day weekend. I hesitate to call it a vacation because that might conjure up images of my beloved spouse and me sipping on a hot toddy while relaxing by the fire. Avid readers may recall that vacationing with my…
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CODA
Million Moms on warpath about gay life in Riverdale GREG BEAN I don’t know for sure what I’ll be doing next weekend, but I know one thing I won’t be doing. I won’t be going to Toys “R” Us, because the social activist group One Million Moms wants us to boycott the chain on account…
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Reader: Cartoon was in poor taste and column was offensive
I find your recent editorial cartoon intimating Gov. Chris Christie as one who creates disunity, maintains stereotypes and spreads no joy through the region to be in very poor taste. So let me get this straight — unless you agree with a radical left-wing agenda, you are creating disunity? You claim that traditional marriage is…
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Gift auction will support AFJROTC cadets
For more than 30 years, the Jackson Township NJ-782nd Air Force Junior ROTC has been providing leadership training and an aerospace science program for students in Jackson Liberty and Jackson Memorial high schools. The 178-member corps at Jackson Memorial High School is among the largest in the state. It has been recognized as the top…
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Longtime member of zoning board resigns
HOWELL— After 13 years of service on the Howell Zoning Board of Adjustment, including 12 years as chairman, John Van Noy has resigned from the panel. The Township Council accepted Van Noy’s resignation at its Feb. 21 meeting. His term on the zoning board was scheduled to expire at the end of 2012. Zoning board…
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Train conductor, accomplice charged in ticket fare scheme
A train conductor and his accomplice have been arrested and charged with defrauding NJ Transit of thousands of dollars in ticket fares over more than a one-year period, Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter E. Warshaw Jr. and NJ Transit Director Jim Weinstein announced on Feb. 29. Robert Broschart, 49, of Howell, a conductor with NJ Transit,…
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Residents can report problems on hotline
JACKSON — Mayor Michael Reina has implemented a mayor’s hotline that is available 24 hours a day to record comments, suggestions or complaints. “This hotline can be used to call in a variety of issues from complaints such as potholes, clogged storm drains, etc., to any suggestions or thoughts you may have to better service…
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Farley’s Ice Cream closes a sweet spot in Jackson
Store owners were known for supporting events in the community BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer On one of the final days that Farley’s Ice Cream was open in Jackson, John Burnetsky creates a tasty treat. Burnetsky had worked at the shop since it opened in 1995. ANDREW MARTINS Tucked away in the Bennetts Mills Plaza…
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