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Girl Scouts begin fall product sale program
Fall is in the air and that means the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore have geared up for their fall product sale program. Girl Scouts throughout Monmouth and Ocean counties have begun to sell nuts, candy and magazines — just in time for the upcoming holiday season. According to a press release, the fall…
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‘No Easy Walk’
“Ida with Child Walking Away” by Helen M. Stummer A s a concerned photographer, Helen M. Stummer has devoted her life to revealing a human dignity that rises above poverty. In her first retrospective, on view at the CVA Gallery of Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, dozens of enlarged black and white photographs detail portraits of…
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They’re mad, and they’re not gonna take it anymore
CODA GREG BEAN So, the Occupy Wall Street protests spilled over into New Jersey in a small way last week, after a hundred or so activists turned up in Jersey City, and fewer than 50 showed up in Trenton on Thursday to spread their amorphous message of social discontent. Carrying signs that said everything from…
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Kickin’ It events help eliminate bullying
The Bullying … We’re Kickin’ It national campaign will host a kickball game in conjunction with the Marlboro High School PTO from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 22 at Marlboro High School, 95 N. Main St. (Route 79), Marlboro. The free kickball event is open to the public. The nonprofit Kickin’ It organization, based…
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The fight must continue against pancreatic cancer
My heart goes out to the family of Steve Jobs, his friends and colleagues. He was anAmerican icon and one of the greatest visionaries of our time. His passing is a great loss for our country. I did not know him personally but I shared something in common with him – pancreatic cancer. My own…
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Children have learned to ‘do good’ for Marlboro
When the idea of a Teen Advisory Committee was introduced to the youth of Marlboro in 2008, my son was eager to participate. He thought it would be a terrific way to introduce the student’s perspective on town issues and earn community service at the same time. He didn’t know then that his involvement would…
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for the record
The following information was not included in an article about the Freehold FirstAid and Emergency Squad that was published in the Oct. 5 edition of the News Transcript. Anyone who would like to make a donation to the first aid squad may do so by visiting the website at www.freeholdems.org. Donations are made through PayPal.…
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Young people are only asking for a chance to succeed in life
Eleven hours in detention. Most of that time spent handcuffed on a bus and part of it spent in a jail cell with no food, water or use of the facilities. That is how my son spent a recent Saturday. He and his friends went down to see what the Wall Street protesters were doing.…
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Recent editorial cartoon was unfair to nurses
The Sept. 21 editorial cartoon is shamefully misleading to New Jersey residents and painfully unfair to nurses who take care of our elderly and disabled in long-term care facilities. The cartoon asserts that the state of New Jersey is 22nd in long-term nursing care, which implies that nurses are solely responsible for the grade on…
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