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‘Four Women/Insight Out’
“Jason D. Smith” by Jacquelyn Kirczow-Smith The Middletown Arts Center (MAC) is hosting “Four Women/Insight Out,” an art exhibition of recent paintings showcasing the talent and vision of four friends: Rosalie Bennett, Nina Douglas, Jacquelyn Kirczow Smith and Cynthia Yurcisin. The artists have shown their work extensively and have received recognition including awards, grants and…
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Come listen to the blues — and learn something about this musical style — at a free concert 2 p.m. Jan. 15 at theWest Long Branch Library, 95 PoplarAve. Noted blues and jazz musician T.J. Wheeler will present his “Hope, Heroes and the Blues” concert. Details: 732-222-5993 or www.monmouthcountylib.org. ***** The 36th annual Christian Brothers…
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West Long Branch-based band Goldenseal, led by frontman and resident Joe Hughes, performs at the borough’s 81st annual Community Christmas Sing at Woolley Park on Dec. 19.
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Trap-neuter-release for feral cats approved in Sea Bright
Volunteers will monitor boro’s cat population BY DAN HOWLEY SEA BRIGHT— After three major revisions and intervention by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Borough Council has finally adopted an ordinance to help control the borough’s feral cat colonies. Adopted unanimously at the council’sDec. 21 meeting, the ordinance allows for the trapping, spaying/neutering and…
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Hospice volunteers sought to help others
All it takes is compassion and a little time to become a hospice volunteer for VITAS Innovative Hospice Care of New Jersey Shore, Eatontown. There is a need for volunteers in Ocean, Monmouth andMiddlesex counties. Volunteers give their time to terminally ill patients and their caregivers during a critical time. In orientation classes, they are…
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stork club
Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, announced the birth of a girl on Nov. 29 to Michele and Carney Conklin of Oakhurst; and A boy on Dec. 6 to Juana M. and Jason J. Penta of Ocean Township; Jersey Shore UniversityMedical Center, Neptune, announced the birth of a boy Nov. 13 to Sonalben and Dixhikumar Patel…
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Long Branch Fire Dept. to receive critical equipment grant
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6th District) announced that the Long Branch Fire Department will receive $36,000 in funding provided through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program. The money will be spent to improve emergency response capabilities by purchasing updated protective equipment, according to a press release from Pallone’s office. “Better equipment means the Long…
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Navy Seabee returns to his BMS Dolphins
Students welcome teacher’s return from tour in Iraq BYANDREWDAVISON Staff Writer Justin Mayer, a physical education teacher at Bayshore Middle School in Middletown, recently returned from deployment in Iraq with the U.S. Navy Reserve Seabees and was welcomed back by students on Dec. 6. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Bayshore Middle School celebrated the return…
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Park system slates January activities
The Monmouth County Park System has scheduled the following activities for the month of January: “Whose Skull?” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 8 and 9 at the Manasquan Reservoir Environmental Center, Georgia Tavern Road, Howell. Match the fossil to the creature; “Ceramics,” 12:30-4:30 p.m. Sundays, beginning Jan. 9, at the Thompson Park…
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