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Grants funds upgrades at school libraries
MIDDLETOWN — Armed with a grant award, two township schools can now open a new chapter in their libraries. Nut Swamp Elementary School and River Plaza Elementary School were awarded a total of $25,000 in grant money from the Edward W. and Stella C. Van Houten Memorial Fund. According to a press release from the…
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Holiday Lantern Tours at Historic Four Corners
SHREWSBURY — The annual Holiday Lantern Tours of Shrewsbury’s Historic Four Corners, will take place Friday, Dec. 2. On this evening, the historic buildings at the corners of Broad Street and Sycamore Avenue will be open to welcome the public. Tours begin at 6 and 8 p.m. and are by reservation only. The tours will…
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Neighbor thwarts burglary
MIDDLETOWN — An alert neighbor foiled a suspected burglar as he was leaving a house on Cypress Neck Road on Nov. 8, according to Middletown police. “The suspect forced entry to the home by breaking a window located at the rear of the house but was confronted by an alert neighbor who observed the suspect…
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Soul Kitchen: Living on a prayer
Dorothea and Jon Bon Jovi launch community restaurant BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer Jon Bon Jovi mingles with guests at the opening of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation Soul Kitchen — a community-based endeavor meant to empower and inspire — on Monmouth Street in Red Bank on Oct. 19. ERIC SUCAR staff I t…
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NPS: Sandy Hook beach fees based on area beach fees
BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent MIDDLETOWN — The National Park Service’s proposal to double most parking fees at Sandy Hook is based on a market survey of the rates at beaches in the area near Sandy Hook, Raina Williams, public affairs officer at Gateway National Recreation Area, said in a recent interview. Williams was responding to…
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Shelter alumni star in MCSPCA calendar
2012 Homeward Bound Alumni Calendar on sale now Weslee Wallace, a hound mix puppy rescued from a shelter, is Mr. September. The wait is over, and the star of the Monmouth County SPCA (MCSPCA) alumni calendar has made his debut. The featured adoptee is a feline named Nermal who, like many other shelter alumni, began…
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County drawbridges privatized to save $572K
Twenty-eight bridge tenders to receive layoff notices BY KRISTEN DALTON Staff Writer Oceanic Bridge RUMSON — The Sea Bright-Rumson Bridge and the Oceanic Bridge are two of four county drawbridges whose daily operations will be handed over to a private firm beginning in 2012. The Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders decided on Nov. 9…
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CODA
Sometimes, it’s fair to blame the messenger GREG BEAN Here’s something you might not realize about the newspaper, or publication website, where you’re reading this column — the company that publishes the news and information for Greater Media Newspapers has more moral integrity than many of the national news organizations, at least when it comes…
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Time for Main Street to ‘occupy’ Wall Street & D.C.
GUEST COLUMN FREDRICK P. NIEMANN A s a conservative Republican, I’ve been watching with interest the Occupy Wall Street movement. I agree with their anger, though I think the target of their movement, rich people andWall Street fails to identify other unjust profiteers, namely (some) corporate CEOs, the federal government in Washington, D.C., lobbyists and…
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