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BOE should consider taxpayers before staff
To the Upper Freehold Board of Education, you need to stop taking shots at the taxpayers of Upper Freehold about your budget’s defeat last spring. The biggest reason you need to stop —you will not win. The taxpayer is your boss. We elected you and we can elect someone to take your place. You can’t…
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Let’s hope they spend all of that $100 million wisely
CODA GREG BEAN Like most people, I was impressed last week when I learned about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that he would pump up to $100 million into Newark’s troubled schools in a “challenge” grant. When he made the announcement of the grant on “Oprah,” he was accompanied by Newark Mayor Cory Booker and…
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N.J.’s great outdoors
Top: Kayakers launch into the lake during the New Jersey Wild Outdoor Expo in the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area in Upper Freehold on Sept. 25. Above: A hands-on demonstration about wildlife had participants building bat houses. Right: Kayakers wait their turn to take to the waters of the Assunpink Lake. Luke Spera, 8, Maplewood, tries…
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Groomers go glamorous
Millstone family opens new pet salon in Hightstown BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Jayne Gallagher, of Millstone, who has operated a mobile pet grooming salon, gets ready for her new business venture, Bubblesaway Pet Salon, behind Precious Pets in Hightstown. SCOTT FRIEDMAN MILLSTONE — Besides giving dogs a bath, brushing their teeth and combing their…
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AHS alumna will serve with the Peace Corps in Paraguay
BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent Lucy Nicholls pets the Seeing Eye dog she helped raise. The 6-year-old Labrador retriever named Boca served at Morristown’s The Seeing Eye campus before retiring and being adopted by the Nicholls family. ERIC SUCAR staff UPPER FREEHOLD — Lucy Nicholls always wanted to join the Peace Corps. Now, after finishing college,…
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for the record •••
The article “Parents want school bus stops moved off main thoroughfares” in the Sept. 23 Examiner stated that Upper Freehold Regional Board of Education member Chris Shaw stated that parents at school bus stops could designate adult safety guards at the stops to keep children safe. The article should have stated that Shaw said the…
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Archives Week theme: WWII
Monmouth County is getting ready for its annual Archives and History Week with special events planned on Oct. 5, 6 and 9 at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan. On the agenda are a number of activities that will provide attendees a glimpse into Monmouth County’s history during World War II and…
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Help break a world record for pumpkin carving Oct. 9
Event proceeds will benefit Susan G. Komen Foundation BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer EAST WINDSOR — Carve a pumpkin to help find a cure for cancer while simultaneously trying to break a world record on Oct. 9. K&S Farms’ Field of Terror in East Windsor will host Carve for the Cure, a fundraising event for…
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