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Shame raises stigma against people with a mental illness
GUEST COLUMN NISHA CHHABRA I remember how I sat at the kitchen table in December 1993 with knots in my stomach, my mother cooking dinner for my ninth birthday party. “Do you think Dad is going to come out of his room during my party?” I nervously asked my mother as she pulled coconut barfi,…
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Spare change adds up to assistance for Haiti
BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — While third-grade pupils in the REACH program at the Frank Defino Central School, Route 79, thought about what type of community service they wanted to do, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, leading the youngsters to know exactly where to focus their energy. Parts of Haiti were reduced to…
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Building a business
A crew is busy constructing the shell of a building that will become a Walgreens pharmacy at the corner of Route 33 east and Woodward Road, Manalapan. AMY ROSEN
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‘Art on Paper’
‘Art on Paper,” a new exhibition at the Monmouth Museum, features 75 artworks in a range of paper-based media including etchings, monoprints and limited-edition original prints, artist books, collage, drawings and paintings on paper, photographs and wallmounted paper sculpture. “Estuary #2” by Robert W. Pillsbury Selecting juror Bruce Waldman is on the faculty of the…
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Lawson re-elected president
Ronald Lawson of Howell will continue to serve as president of the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education. Lawson, who won re-election to a threeyear term on the board in the April 20 school election, was re-elected as the board’s president when the panel held its annual reorganization meeting on April 26. Heshy…
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Event remembers Carlee Wines
MANALAPAN — Manalapan resident Carlee Wines, a Manalapan High School graduate, was killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a street at the University of Connecticut on Jan. 22, 2007. Family, friends and community members have since been honoring Carlee’s life with the Carlee A. Wines Memorial 5-Mile Run/Walk. Carlee trained for and ran in…
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Eagle Scouts complete community projects
Boy Scout Troop 155, chartered by the West Freehold School PTO, Freehold Township, announced that its most recent Eagle Scout recipients are Christopher Anastasio, Peter Conforti, Brennan Cornell, Phillip Hu and Tim Troppoli. The Eagle Scout is the highest rank that the Boy Scouts of America can bestow upon a young man. To earn the…
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Ethics panel dismisses charge vs. planning board member
BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Charges of unethical behavior that were lodged against a member of the Marlboro Planning Board have been dismissed. During the Marlboro Ethics Board’s April 14 meeting, the panel’s members voted to dismiss charges against Planning Board member Syed Husain. They said evidence which had been supplied in a…
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