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Million Moms on warpath about gay life in Riverdale
CODA 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 of the fact that it’s selling the recent…
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Battle looms over filing of tenure charges
Manalapan High School Principal Jeff Simon now on unpaid administrative leave BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer A battle rarely seen in New Jersey education circles is now under way in the Freehold Regional High School District. Tenure charges have been filed with the state commissioner of education against Manalapan High School Principal Jeff Simon by…
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Marlboro struggles to sell affordable units
Mazzola says demand exists for rental housing, but those units are not available in town BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer For several decades, municipal officials in Marlboro and other New Jersey communities have struggled to build the number of affordable housing units the state has mandated them to construct within their borders. Now, however, Marlboro…
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Members of the Java String Quartet, Winnie Burke, Katie Gussman, Warren Brumel and Amanda Gruber, perform for pupils at the Marlboro Memorial Middle School on Feb. 29, after offering advice to the school’s aspiring musicians earlier that morning. ERIC SUCAR staff
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Freehold Borough prepares to host ‘Irish Week’
By Clare Marie Celano FREEHOLD — The borough is gearing up to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a week of sights and sounds of all things Irish. The event is being sponsored by Downtown Freehold and the Freehold Borough Arts Council (FBAC). Events have been scheduled from March 12-17. Irish week will begin on March…
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Bulldog girls in the hunt for first CJ title since 1981
BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent My, how basketball has changed since 1981, the last time the Metuchen High School girls won a state sectional title. Val Gazda, head coach of the Bulldogs, who hosted New Egypt in the Central Jersey Group I championship game on March 6, was a member of that team and remembers how…
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St. Joes’s Brix knows basketball is about more than just scoring
BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent St. Joseph High School guard Danny Brix helped lead the Falcons to the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament championship and the No. 1 seed in the NJSIAA Non-Public South A sectional. Brix has become an impact player because he knows there is more to the game than scoring. JEFF GRANIT staff Tim…
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Brady remains focused, finishes third in the state
Bishop Ahr H.S. junior wins five matches BY JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Bishop Ahr’s Kyle Brady (r) tangles with North Hunterdon’s Ryan Pomrinca during their 113-pound match in the wrestle-back quarterfinals of the NJSIAA tournament at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City March 3. Brady scored a 2-0 TB victory and placed third in the state. More…
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‘A Spiritual Passover’ concert March 25
Neve Shalom of Metuchen and Congregation Beth Israel of Scotch Plains will present an Interfaith Concert of Faith and Freedom, “A Spiritual Passover,” 4:30 p.m. March 25 at Neve Shalom, 250 Grove Ave., Metuchen. The event will feature the Neve Shalom Adult and Children’s choirs (Hazzan Sheldon Levin, director), Congregation Beth Israel Adult and Children’s…
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