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Cranberries in New Jersey: a long and rich history
BY GREG SAITZ Correspondent Good cranberries, it turns out, are like SuperBalls: they bounce. Cranberry growers were turned on to this useful tidbit about the little red fruit by a forerunner from the 1840s: a New Jersey grower named John “Peg Leg” Webb. The oft-repeated story, with slight variations, details how Webb and his peg…
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Middle years can bring to love a long-awaited wisdom
Girl Talk • CLARE MARIE CELANO There are two kinds of cravings where our love lives are concerned. The first involves the sharing of the passionate, the lustful, the erotic; the other involves the touching of hearts and souls. If mid-life has taught me anything regarding romantic relationships, it’s that these are two distinctly different…
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Freeholders will examine costs of Monmouth jail
Guest Column • Lillian G. Burry The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders shares the public’s concern that salaries and overtime at the Monmouth County jail are higher than we would like to see. Playing the blame game does not help the situation. Our corrections officers have a very difficult job working around the clock in…
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Seven seek seats on Jackson board
JACKSON — Seven residents are running for two available three-year terms on the Jackson School District Board of Education. The annual school election will be held on April 20. Polls will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The terms on the board that are currently held by Sharon Dey and Linda Lackay are…
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Sections of roads to be resurfaced
Ocean County will reconstruct and resurface portions of several area roads this spring. “The spring is our busy season when it comes to road improvements,” said Freeholder Deputy Director John P. Kelly, liaison to the Ocean County Engineer’s Office. “As soon as the weather clears, our crews and contractors will be out there ensuring that…
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Crew returns from task in Haiti
Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing were recently welcomed home after supporting humanitarian relief operations in Haiti. The group of 120 airmen, who are based at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in central New Jersey, were responsible for opening and operating the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-Au- Prince, Haiti, in the weeks after a devastating…
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Planners oppose state bills
JACKSON — Members of the Jackson Planning Board voted recently to oppose proposed state legislation (S-82/A-437) that would amend the time of decision rule. The resolution approved by the board in opposition to the legislation states that the bills are intended to modify the time of decision rule, which currently allows municipal officials to change…
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FRHSD introduces $187M spending plan
Administrators wait to see how much state aid will be provided in 2010-11 BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Without hard and fast numbers from the governor as to the level of aid that will be delivered from Trenton for the coming school year, the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education has introduced a…
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