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Call for nominations for 2011 Ocean Champion award
WEST LONG BRANCH — The Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University announced a call for nominations for the 2011 Ocean Champion and Leadership Awards. The awards will be presented at the seventh annual Champion of the Ocean Awards Luncheon on Friday, Oct. 21, in Woodrow Wilson Hall at Monmouth University. The deadline for all submissions…
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Fort plan OK’d despite housing advocate’s suit
BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer OCEANPORT — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has approved the Fort Monmouth Reuse and Redevelopment Plan despite requests from a housing advocacy group to delay it. According to the letter approving the plan from Mark Johnston, HUD’s deputy assistant secretary for special needs, to Fort Monmouth…
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Photo contest to capture five decades of open space preservation and park development
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many pictures would it take to capture the beauty of preserving 650,000 acres of open space and parks in New Jersey over the past 50 years? That’s the challenge the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is putting into the shutter-happy hands of residents and…
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Mary Ann M. Fortunato
Mrs. Fortunato, 80, a resident of Little Sliver since 1968, died June 24, 2011, at home. She was a retired registered nurse. Mrs. Fortunato was a communicant of the Church of the Precious Blood, Monmouth Beach, and attended the Post Chapel at Fort Monmouth. She was a longtime member of the Monmouth Beach Bath and…
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The Eatontown Public Library, 33 Broad St., is having a used-book sale July 5-31. New and used adult and children’s books, magazines, DVDs, VHS cassettes and CDs will be available. Details: 732-389-2665. ***** The Wellness Community, 613 Hope Road, Eatontown, will present “Lunch & Learn: What Can the American Cancer Society Do for Me?” 12:30-1:30…
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Eatontown approves use of red-light cameras
Increased safety, revenues expected from program BY JAMES McEVOY Correspondent EATONTOWN — The Borough Council formally adopted an ordinance to bring red-light cameras to the borough, at the June 22 meeting. The measure was approved 5-1 with Councilman Mark Regan being the lone dissenter. Gene J. Anthony, borough attorney, explained that approval allows the board…
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Planners endorse senior housing project
Former Gregory School building would have 116 apartment unit BY KENNYWALTER Architect’s rendering of the proposed senior housing project LONG BRANCH — Although there was concern over a lack of parking, the city Planning Board has endorsed a preliminary plan to convert the former Gregory School building into senior housing. Representatives of the Long Branch…
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This’ll make you view the neighbors in a new light
CODA GREG BEAN Here’s the tale of my only near brush with the fame that sometimes comes to people who witness mob violence firsthand: It was a sunny June morning in 1989, and I was the editor of an alternative newspaper serving the North Shore of Boston. My mother had been visiting, and I was…
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Anti-Bullying Crew to visit White House
Long Branch Middle School students’ video draws attention of the Obamas LONG BRANCH — Long Branch Middle School students will be seen throughout the streets of Washington, D.C., wearing green “BullyingWe’ll Stop It” T-shirts when the school’s Anti-Bullying Crew visits theWhite House and Capitol on July 2. The group was invited by President Barack Obama…
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