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Holmdel Township may sell land to aid budget gap
Committee adopts ordinance to allow sale of Cross Farm parcels due to $2.6M shortfall BYMIKE DAVIS Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The Township Committee is expected to vote on an ordinance at its Jan. 19 meeting that would authorize the sale of township-owned property in anticipation of a shortfall in next year’s municipal budget. At the…
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Black History Month recognized at BCC
Brookdale Community College kicks off February as Black History Month on Jan. 26 with a special presentation 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. by authors Anne Farrow, Joel Lang and Jennifer Frank, the authors of “Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited From Slavery.” The book includes brand-new research by Farrow, and questions on the…
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‘Clerks’ Quick Stop robbed at knifepoint
MIDDLETOWN — Police are looking for information about an armed robbery at a local convenience store made famous in the 1994 film “Clerks.” According to a press release from the Middletown Township Police Department, two male suspects robbed the Quick Stop convenience store on Leonard Avenue in Leonardo, around 10 p.m. on Jan. 12. The…
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Sierra Club director to lecture at BCC
Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club, will discuss the systematic political assault on both the state’s and nation’s environmental rules and regulations, according to Tittel, by radical conservative politicians at the Jan. 23 combined general membership meetings of the Jersey Shore (Monmouth) Group of Sierra and the N.J. Friends…
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GUEST COLUMN
Land sale wrong approach to Holmdel’s fiscal woes MICHAEL RAUCHWERK I am concerned about the legislation introduced at the Holmdel Township Committee meeting on Jan. 3 concerning the sale of township-owned property to cover budget shortfalls. Although the initial proposed sale of property at Cross Farm is 10 acres, the ordinance authorizes the sale of…
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Parents, grandmothers appreciate community’s kindness
Wemust take this opportunity to thank one and all for all your wonderful contributions toward giving our daughter/granddaughter the best care that we know is out there. Very unfortunately, Danielle was diagnosed with leukemia (typeALL) in September, a disease that needs immediate attention, and all of you came to our rescue in so many ways…
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Candidate thanks supporters, vows to continue work
I want to thank those who placed their confidence in me during my recent campaign for state Assembly in the 13th District. My running mates Christopher Cullen, Patrick Short and I canvassed each of the 16 municipalities in our district, spoke with countless residents about ways Trenton can better serve taxpayers, and offered our ideas…
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The dream lives on
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was invited to inaugurate a lecture series at the Alumni Memorial Gymnasium (now Boylan Gymnasium) at Monmouth College, West Long Branch, on Oct. 6, 1966. PHOTO COURTESY OF MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
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MRHS students bridge cultures through art
“Anita” by Mimi Liu, senior, acrylics A rt students at Matawan Regional High School are using their talents to reach across the world to make a difference in the lives of children they have never met. Fifteen students in Barbara Barnes’ art class volunteered to participate in the Memory Project, a nationwide initiative in which…
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