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Set for the season
Left: Allentown’s Scott Keleher guides the ball to an open teammate during the second half of the game against Toms River East at Allentown High School on March 27. Above: Allentown’s Matt Mueller tries to pass the ball to an open teammate. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff
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Gold achieves personal best in Junior Olympics
Millstone’s Matt Gold swims the 500-yard freestyle event in the Junior Olympics at Rutgers University March 19-21. MILLSTONE — Matt Gold competed in the Junior Olympics and bested all his previous swim times. During the New Jersey Junior Olympics for swimming March 19-21 at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on the Busch Campus of Rutgers…
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August Hofling Jr.
Mr. Hofling, 75, of the Cream Ridge section of Upper Freehold, died March 24, 2010, at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune. Mr. Hofling retired as an operating engineer from IUOE, Local 825 in Little Falls and farmed at Harvest Hill Farm in Cream Ridge. He was predeceased by his parents, August and Lena Hofling, and…
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William C. Bacorn
Mr. Bacorn, 100, of Whiting, died March 28, 2010, at home. Prior to retiring, he was the director of farming for the state of New Jersey for 20 years. He was predeceased by his wife, Olive, in 1992; and four children, Anne Birch, John Bacorn, Robert Bacorn and Linda Niedermaier. Mr. Bacorn is survived by…
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Blame the state’s current financial mess on Trenton
Today it seems that many would like to place blame for New Jersey’s budget disaster on the shoulders of the municipalities, public employees, teachers and police officers. This budget disaster has its roots under the Gold Dome on State Street in Trenton. It was not singularly caused by the municipalities or these other groups. For…
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Assemblyman urges everyone in N.J. to work together
Gov. Chris Christie has put forward a budget and a package of proposals that together have the potential to revolutionize New Jersey government — and how we pay for it. The proposed cuts have understandably received most of the initial media attention so far. The cuts are severe, no other way to put it. Schools…
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Cost of wars, health care at root of financial woes
Reference is made to the list of state aid cuts to municipalities and school districts across New Jersey as recommended by Gov. Christie. You don’t need a six-figure college diploma from any of our institutions of higher education to realize that taxpayers will undoubtedly be hit once again with elevated property taxes. It is how…
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Save the school district’s transportation department
I now know why Mary Anne Donahue is leaving Millstone. Last night the Board of Education told all of the bus drivers that they won’t have jobs next year and that they are contracting out all the bus runs to an outside contractor. What in hell are they thinking? Contracting some of the runs the…
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Passage of bill is historic social legislation
Few issues have been as hotly debated as have the health care reform bills over the past year. The dialogue has often been not worthy of a debate on the great public policy issue of our day. We have heard claims about government takeover of the health care system, death panels and other fallacies that…
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