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June: Make your mark
GREEN SCENE GOTTI KELLEY “Don’t wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees.” Anne Rover W ith the rising temps, our resident chipmunks — rats with racing stripes, as I call them — make their daily appearance. I watched one of them methodically filling his cheeks to the bursting…
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Christie to HUD: Approve fort plan
BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer OCEANPORT — Gov. Chris Christie has joined a growing chorus of state officials ratcheting up the pressure on Washington to approve the Fort Monmouth redevelopment plan. In a letter addressed to Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Christie calls for the agency to…
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Aslan’s ‘Island Nights’ fundraiser set for July 23
RED BANK — Aslan Youth Ministries, a nonprofit that provides leadership programs for disadvantaged youths in Asbury Park, Long Branch and Red Bank, will host its largest fundraiser of the year 5:30-11 p.m. July 23. Aslan’s 12th annual “Island Nights,” to be held at 41 Breezy Point Road in Little Silver, will feature Caribbean cuisine,…
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Scholarships available for careers in criminal law
The County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey is offering four scholarships to law school students seeking careers as prosecuting attorneys, and to police officers hoping to attend college to advance their careers in law enforcement. The scholarships, each amounting to a one-year grant of $2,500, will be paid directly to the recipients, who will be…
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Photo contest to capture five decades of open space preservation
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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Art, music and more at Bayonet Farm Arts & Music Festival
HOLMDEL — The eighth annual Bayonet Farm Arts and Music Festival will take place rain or shine on Sunday, Sept. 25, noon to 5 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Holmdel Department of Parks & Recreation and the Bayonet Farm Festival Committee. Featured will be a juried art show in the Red Barn Gallery,…
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Sign ups under way for Camp Jinka 2011
MIDDLETOWN — Camp Jinka is a free summer program offered by the David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Center at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch to kids and teens whose lives have been impacted by a loved one’s diagnosis of a brain tumor Children attending camp have a loved one who has a brain tumor,…
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Garden club event for kids combines reading, nature
KEYPORT — Keyport Garden Club (KGC), in coordination with the Keyport Public Library, is hosting a morning program for the children of Keyport on 11 a.m. June 18, starting at the library on Broad Street. Children will have the opportunity to plant flowers that spell “READ” with garden club members, hear a flower-oriented story time…
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Zen, robotics and more at Hazlet library
HAZLET— The Hazlet Library, 251 Middle Road, will offer free classes in Zen meditation, a robotics workshop for teens and a concert with popular Jersey Shore musician Yosi for kids of all ages. June programs are: Zen Meditation, 7 p.m. June 20 and June 29 — Learn and/or practice meditation in the Chinese Chan…
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