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Jaguars secure back-to-back state football championships
By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Jackson Memorial High School’s Mike Gawlik (8) goes up and over the Brick Memorial High School defense to score one of his three touchdowns in the Jaguars’ 42-14 victory over the top-seeded Mustangs in the NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group IV championship playoff game Dec. 5 at Rutgers University’s High Point Solutions…
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Top flooring choices to keep homes looking merry and bright
BACK TO BUSINESS News of Greater Media Newspapers’ advertisers Decorating for the holidays? Don’t forget the floor, says SMART Carpet and Flooring, the tri-state area’s original shop-at-home flooring leader. And to help homeowners choose flooring that performs well and looks great in high-traffic areas this holiday season, SMART Carpet and Flooring has released its short…
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Santaland Diaries
TOP PICK With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness, proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. Perhaps, his most…
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Pallone proposes improved disaster communications
Proposed federal legislation could one day help residents across New Jersey who lost cell phone service and experienced power blackouts as a result of superstorm Sandy. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-Monmouth, Middlesex) has introduced the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act (H.R. 3998) that would, if passed in the House and Senate and signed…
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Sons want their parents to show them ‘love’
ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch Christmas shopping. It simply isn’t what it used to be. Back in the day I could “wow” our four young sons with anything from Nike socks to the Batmobile and everything in between. They were thrilled at the pile of presents on Christmas morning. They would wake up at…
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Jackson resident charged with robbery of two Howell banks
Christopher Gilman, 38, of Jackson, has been charged with two counts of second degree robbery in connection with the Oct. 10, 2014, and Nov. 1, 2014, robberies of the TD Bank at 4280 Route 9 South, Howell, Monmouth County Acting Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced. Gilman was served with a copy of the criminal complaints…
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New law stiffens penalties for swatting perpetrators
A bill that designates swatting as a felony and establishes more stringent punishments for the crime has been signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie. “It is time to send a message that this is not going to be treated lightly,” said Assemblyman Paul Moriarty (D-Camden, Gloucester), who sponsored the bill and was himself the…
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Google rep visits high school
Freehold High School, Freehold Borough, is the only school in the world that has had three grand prize winners of the Google Code-in Contest, according to a press release from the Freehold Regional High School District. Stephanie Taylor, a representative from Google, informed students in the school’s Computer Science Academy of this honor when she…
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ON CAMPUS
Shaye Lynn DiPasquale of Howell has been named to the honors program for the 2015-16 academic year at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
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