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Sea Bright’s Dune’s Day will replenish beaches
Badge sales at a peak; boro rushes to ready shoreline for season opening BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer SEA BRIGHT — Plans are in place for a borough-wide Dune’s Day volunteer effort to re-fence and replant the beach sand dunes at borough beaches. The event has been scheduled for Sunday, April 25, and will be…
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From Signal Corps to satellites, fort’s role documented
Fort Monmouth archives will follow base to Md. BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer An important chapter in Monmouth County history will come to an end in 2011 when the gates of Fort Monmouth close. Monmouth Park Grandstand blown down 1899 The Department of Defense’s Base Realignment and Closure Commission decided to close Fort Monmouth and…
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Amendments to fort reuse bill give locals more say
Legislature must approve changes proposed by Beck BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer Oceanport Borough Council President Joseph Irace announced during the April 1 council meeting that the borough received a package containing 17 new amendments to Senate Bill 917 and Assembly Bill 597, the Fort Monmouth Redevelopment bills, from Sen. Jennifer Beck (R-12th District). Joseph…
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R.B. BOE cuts $1M, 13 positions from budget
One candidate for three open seats on Board of Ed. BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer The Red Bank Board of Education (BOE) introduced a revised budget for 2010-11 that cuts spending by 9 percent, and unanimously passed the $18.9 million budget during the March 30 meeting. The board slashed the proposed $19.9 million budget by…
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Friends Danny Dibenede, of Red Bank (l-r), Ruby Arena, of Lincroft, Jill Janovic, of Red Bank, Lily Arena, of Lincroft, and Genna Forsman, of Tinton Falls, try out gymnastic moves on the playground adjacent to the beach at Sea Bright on a sunny afternoon April 2. More photos, page 18 and at gmnews.com. ERIC SUCAR…
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Movie tickets: You’ll have to hock the family jewels
CODA GREG BEAN I try not to sound like one of those old geezers who bore the pants off younger folk by telling them over and over again how much better things were back in the Olden Days. But I will take a little skip down memory lane by noting that the first time I…
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Don’t increase co-pay burden on low-income seniors
There is no good news in the New Jersey state budget for those on low or fixed incomes. The current budget proposal includes increasing the brand-name drug co-pays from $7 to $15 for the state’s PAAD [Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled] beneficiaries. Let’s remember, individuals participate in PAAD because they meet certain income…
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Reader wants the wealthy to sacrifice, too
I’d like to respond to Declan O’Scanlon’s recent letter to the Hub (“Assemblyman Urges Everyone in NJ to Work Together,” April 1). Mr. O’Scanlon says that his reform plank is “Cut, Cap, Contribute.” In his letter, he describes the cuts and caps but not the contribute. Since most of the cuts being made at the…
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American Littoral Society director was unique
Environmentalists everywhere were saddened to hear that Derrickson W. (Dery) Bennett died last December. He was 79. An icon in the environmental movement, he became the first director of the American Littoral Society in 1968 and retired in 2003. Still, he came to the Littoral Society office at Sandy Hook every day in his beatup…
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