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Frank Talk presents black history programs
REDBANK— Local actress Lorraine Stone will bring a great heroine of black women’s history to life in “AWoman Named Mary Bowser” at Frank Talk Art Bistro and Books on March 19 and 20. MaryBowserwas born a slave in 1839 on a plantation in Virginia. Her contribution to the outcome of the CivilWar was one that…
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Matawan streamlines business license process
Ordinance revised to expedite new business openings BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer B MATAWAN — Opening a new business in the borough will now be faster and easier than ever before based on new licensing regulations approved by the Borough Council on Feb. 15. The governing body approved streamlining and revamping its business license ordinance…
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Holmdel votes to oppose turbine
Twp. joins freeholders, Union Beach, Keyport Hazlet against turbine BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — The township has joined the Monmouth County Freeholders and the municipalities of Union Beach, Hazlet and Keyport in opposition to a 380-foot-tall wind turbine planned for the Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority’s (BRSA) 24-acre wastewater management plant site. The resolution…
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Army secy: Keep commissary open
PX could operate for two years after Fort Monmouth closure BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer The fight to keep the commissary at Fort Monmouth open past the post’s closure date in September has received some significant backing. In a pair of letters addressed to Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez (both D-N.J.), Secretary of the…
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Keyport FD sounds alarm on vehicle replacement
BY JAMES MCEVOY Correspondent KEYPORT — Leadership and members of the Keyport Fire Department crowded into the municipal courtroom for the March 1 Keyport Borough Council meeting to make a public appeal for new equipment and to combat what they feel are misconceptions about the department. John McCluster, first assistant chief, said there is a…
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Steinem: Full equality still a century away
‘An Evening With Gloria Steinem’ at Brookdale draws overflow crowd BY LIZ SHEEHAN Correspondent Writer, editor and social activist Gloria Steinem talks with members of the press prior to the start of “An Evening With Gloria Steinem” at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on March 1. ERIC SUCAR staff MIDDLETOWN — “If I had one…
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Sewer rate increase defeated in Holmdel
Sewer funds depleted for taxpayer relief BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL— By a split 2-2 vote, an ordinance that would have increased residential and commercial sewer rates for the second time in six months failed at a Township Committee meeting on March 3. The ordinance, which proposed a 15 percent quarterly increase for sewer…
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Michael’s Feat supports ill newborns and families
Michael Gerard Puharic Memorial Fund has raised $1M BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Adam Puharic and Janet Emma admire a mural at the dedication of the Michael‘s Feat Family Resource Room at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Monmouth in May 2007. When Dana and Adam Puharic lost their newborn son Michael within 83 hours…
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Freeholder calls on Brookdale trustees to resign
Curley: Abuse of expenses by college president under investigation BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Freeholder John Curley Freeholder Deputy Director John Curley said Monday he would be calling for the resignation of the Board of Trustees and board attorney for Brookdale Community College in Middletown over excessive expenditures associated with the college President’s Office. “At…
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