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No words to describe pain of loss
GIRL TALK CLARE MARIE CELANO Life, as we know it, can change in a minute. Someone gets married, someone gets divorced. Someone says you’re hired, someone says you’re fired. Someone is born, someone dies. And these events change you. The passing of my 86-year-old mother on June 18, two months before her 87th birthday, has…
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All ages invited to enter film festival
Kidz Filmz, a new film festival and joint venture between Algonquin Arts Theatre in Manasquan and the Garden State Film Festival, is seeking video submissions from the public. The films will be presented at Algonquin Arts Theatre in a festival-type event Jan. 27-29, 2012. Activities will also include a hands-on children’s workshop. Filmmakers of all…
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Writing competition seeks authors
The Unlimited Potential Theater Company (UPTCo), a project of VSA New Jersey (VSA/NJ), is seeking poems, essays, short stories and plays by New Jersey residents, 18 years of age or older, for its 18th annual Joyce Indik New Jersey Wordsmith Competition. The contest is open to all writers, and submissions by writers with disabilities are…
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Agricultural science scholarships available
New Jersey residents who are entering their senior year in high school this fall and are planning a career in agriculture or science may apply for the New Jersey Agricultural Achievement Award. The New Jersey Agricultural Achievement Award, sponsored by Amy Butewicz, a former New Jersey Equestrian of the Year, is meant to assist the…
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County beaches rate high for water quality
BY KENNYWALTER Staff Writer A n extremely dry summer in 2010 not only pleased beachgoers, but also beach activists, who credited last summer’s dry spell for high marks for water quality at local beaches in an annual water quality report released two weeks ago . Sandy Hook-based ocean advocacy group Clean Ocean Action convened a…
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It’s time for N.J. to reconsider the flat tax
GUEST COLUMN James A. Kozachek With the new state budget now in place, Democrats contend the state has lost a golden opportunity to help support suburban school districts with a so-called millionaire’s tax — in which New Jerseyans would be taxed 10.75 percent for every dollar earned over $1 million. The Republicans consistently rejected this…
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Roosevelt First Aid Squad corrects reported expenses
Jane Meggitt’s article “Roosevelt will not raise taxes” in the July 14 Examiner incorrectly reported that “the [Roosevelt First Aid] Squad’s actual expenses last year totaled $8,000…” Actually, the Roosevelt First Aid Squad’s expenses for 2010 were in excess of $15,000, and the Roosevelt Borough Council generously contributed $11,000 to assist us with our operating…
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Bill will help small businesses, individuals afford health care
Thanks to the efforts of Assemblyman [Herb] Conaway (D-7th District], the New Jersey Assembly passed a bill that will establish a health insurance exchange, improving access to affordable health care for small businesses and individuals. As a young New Jerseyan, it’s gratifying to know that whatever career path I am following in the future —…
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