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Power of Pink lunch slated for July 21
The annual Power of Pink Luncheon, an event to benefit the Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth Medical Center, will be held from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. July 21 at the Fort Chapel and Grounds at Sandy Hook. The hosts of the luncheon, the Women’s Council for the Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth…
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Body of Red Bank woman found; husband charged
Viridiana Beltran- Gomez ABERDEEN — Authorities recovered the body of a Red Bank woman that had been buried in Aberdeen. The remains of 26-year-old Viridiana Beltran-Gomez were found June 25, according to Monmouth County First Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni. Her body was buried less than 100 feet from Garden State Parkway mile marker 119 .…
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Local man honored for work with Sylvia’s Children
HOLMDEL — Tony Costa, of Long Branch, has been presented with a silver President’s Volunteer ServiceAward for volunteering 350-plus hours to Holmdel-based charity Sylvia’s Children. Costa, a trustee for the organization, logged the hours while volunteering his time on various projects for Sylvia’s Children, both in New Jersey and in Uganda, where the charity does…
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Fitness in the Park offered in Red Bank
RED BANK — For the second year, in conjunction with Red Bank’s Summer Series, OutdoorFit is conducting free Fitness in the Park sessions at Riverside Gardens Park on West Front Street. OutdoorFit is offering four, 60-minute total body workouts in July as part of its Fitness in the Park series. The four-week program is free…
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Zen center relocates to Shrewsbury, Asbury
SHREWSBURY — Elberon Zen Circle has moved its location to the Quaker Meeting House, at the corner of Sycamore Avenue and Broad Street (Route 35), Shrewsbury, and theYoga Basin studio, 603 Mattison Ave., Asbury Park. Zen meditation practice, based on a 900- year-old Japanese Zen tradition, will be taught and practiced at the Quaker Meeting…
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Donation funds purchase of Love INC building
EATONTOWN — Love INC, a faithbased support organization for families needing emergency help, recently received a gift of $25,000 from the members of First Presbyterian Church of Red Bank. The gift has been used to help purchase the building Love INC has been using for its Furnished with Love ministry in Long Branch. The store…
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Gov.’s veto disappoints adoption community
The governor thinks that by conditionally vetoing S799, which would have given adult adoptees access to their original birth certificate, he is addressing the needs of the adoption community. But he is not. First, adopted persons never consented to having their own original birth certificates sealed against them. No other New Jersey citizens are barred…
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There could be a new and improved ‘Zone of Death’
CODA GREG BEAN If you’re looking for a thrill ride — with the possibility of actual physical deconstruction as an added attraction — I say you skip Great Adventure this summer and do something both terrifying and free: Get off the New Jersey Turnpike at Exit 9 in East Brunswick and try to make it…
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