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Buying resolutions require determination
By Marilyn Kennedy Melia CTW Features Renters want to buy, but new buying challenges are keeping the transition to homeownership a lengthy process It’s the time of year when people start saying, “We’re going to buy a home next year.” But, one study suggests that the majority of renters planning to buy within a year…
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SPORT SHORTS
The fourth annual Friends of South Amboy charity basketball games will be held Dec. 19 at South Amboy High School. The three games begin at 4 p.m. when South Amboy’s girls team plays Koinonia Academy. At 6 p.m. Perth Amboy Vo-Tech’s boys will take the court against Mater Dei Prep. In the nightcap at 8…
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Bomber bowling teams pin high hopes on vets
SAYREVILLE WAR MEMORIAL By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent With several key players back, Sayreville War Memorial High School’s boys and girls bowling teams look to have solid seasons. The boys are coming off an 11-3-1 year that saw the Bombers finish third in the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) Red Division. The Blue and Gray came on…
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Knights fall to Vikings in Central Jersey, Group V final
By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent Old Bridge High School quarterback Jake Esposito, left, is under pressure as he looks to make a pass against South Brunswick High School during the NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group V championship playoff game Dec. 5 at Rutgers University’s High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway. The Knights fell to the Vikings, 42-0.…
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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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Did you know …
Wes Chatham in “The Expanse” RAFY/SYFY The highly anticipated 10-hour Syfy series “The Expanse” will premiere on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 14 and 15, at 10 p.m. This highly ambitious series is set 200 years in the future and follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective (played by Thomas…
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Ava Gardner
By David Cohea ReMIND magazine Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood’s most beautiful actresses during the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s, starring in such films as The Killers, Show Boat, Mogambo (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award), On the Beach and Night of the Iguana. A small-town girl…
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Holiday movie preview
In theaters now By Paul Hall www.channelguidemag.com As we race to the end of 2015, we will be greeted by a slew of big movies. Some movies will prosper, some will fail and some will get nominated for awards (both good and bad) — but all will bring their unique visions to the screen to…
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Country legend Dolly Parton brings her most personal song to TV
By Lori Acken, www.channelguidemag.com I was a little kid growing up in a home filled with country music when Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” became a radio hit in 1971. I already loved the story of the original coat thanks to Sunday school, and since I was a small-town girl with a loving mama,…
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