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St. Joseph Council 3402, Knights of Columbus, 54 Route 35 North, Keyport, is hosting its second Sunday of the month breakfast from 8 a.m. to noonAug. 14. Cost is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and free for children under 10 and includes pancakes, eggs, French toast, Texas toast, eggs in the hole, English muffins,…
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Report: No further ecology study on fort necessary
NJDEP next step in determining if sites need further assessment BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer OCEANPORT — Although some signs of dangerous ecological materials were found, an environmental firm did not recommend further ecological study for the soon-to-be-shuttered Fort Monmouth. The Baseline Ecological Evaluation (BEE) was presented to Fort Monmouth’s Restoration Advisory Board with environmental scientist…
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Mayor describes impact of 9/11 memorial tour
BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer ABERDEEN — A visit to the 9/11 Memorial at theWorld Trade Center site in New York left Mayor Fred Tagliarini with mixed emotions. “It’s wonderful on one hand to see life continuing, but then one stops and remembers this is because what happened 10 years ago,” Tagliarini said in an…
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Foundation offers 10 free trees to newmembers
Everyone who joins the Arbor Day Foundation in August with a $10 donation will receive 10 free white flowering dogwood trees through the Trees for America campaign. Trees will be shipped postage paid at the right time for planting in each area, between Oct. 15 and Dec. 10. The 6- to 12-inch trees are guaranteed…
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Brush collection at issue in Middletown
Mayor suggests increasing fine or charging for pickup BYMIKE DAVIS Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN— Township Committee members are concerned that residents have already started piling brush in front of their houses despite the cancellation of the fall collection. At the committee’s Aug. 1 meeting, Department of Public Works Director Joseph Maloney said the department has taken…
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180 seeks volunteers for SART training
180 Turning Lives Around (180) is accepting applications for new Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) advocates. Successful applicants will be invited to participate in the 50-hour mandatory training course being held 6-9:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from Sept. 19 through Oct. 19 held in the courtroom at Hazlet Township Police Headquarters, 255 Middle…
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Among readers, humor is in the eye of the beholder
CODA GREG BEAN I ’ve been writing a newspaper column for over 30 years, and I’ve never gotten in more trouble than when I penned something I thought was pretty funny that either fell flat, because some readers didn’t get the humor, or found what I’d said outright offensive. Two cases in point: Back in…
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Make Fort Monmouth the N.J. College of Pharmaceuticals
I address this correspondence to the Hub because it is a local publication and my subject concerns a local disaster. The disaster is the closing of Fort Monmouth and the great loss of jobs as Monmouth County’s largest employer. I have had a great deal of association with the fort, both militarily and a lead…
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NJ libraries are a valuable resource for economic recovery
Nine months ago, thanks to a $5.1 million federal Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant, the New Jersey State Library implemented a series of steps to enable libraries throughout New Jersey to better assist our unemployed and underemployed residents and their families. As unemployment in our state skyrocketed, going from 4.5 percent in 2007 to…
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