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After storm column, some readers ask, ‘Where funny?’
Coda • GREG BEAN I’ll say this for myself: when I make a mistake, it’s a doozy. Regular readers will remember that last week, I spent a lot of time making fun of the hysterical media build-up to the storm they were calling the “Snowpocalypse,” which turned out to be kind of a dud, at…
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Sex education will reverse teen pregnancy trend, reader says
Let’s welcome the teaching of sex education when it is offered at local schools. Teenage pregnancies have increased for the first time in a decade, according to a study recently released by the Guttmacher Institute. This goes hand in hand with an alarming rate of sexually transmitted infections among young people. One out of two…
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Even in snowstorms, EMS volunteers are there to help
It’s been said that volunteer EMS [emergency medical services] is like oxygen: most people don’t realize they need it until they don’t have it. Unless they required medical assistance during the last three snowstorms, most New Jerseyans likely were blissfully unaware their local volunteer ambulance crews remained staffed and ready to respond to calls. Forgoing…
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An open letter to Red Bank’s mayor and council
We are writing in response to the resolution recently passed by the Red Bank Borough Council requesting that Red Bank’s high number of nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations be taken into consideration by the state when aid allocation decisions are being made. We understand the effect that the high number of nonprofits and other organizations with…
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Audrey Thomas Rush
Mrs. Rush, of Monmouth Beach, died Feb. 13, 2010, at home after a long illness. She had worked at the Long Branch Daily Record, the Asbury Park Press and Bell Labs in Holmdel. Mrs. Rush was an exhibiting artist at the Guild of Creative Art, a member of the Art Society of Monmouth County, and…
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Timothy William Stack
Mr. Stack, 41, formerly of Little Silver and most recently of Monmouth Beach, died Jan. 27, 2010, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, after a battle with cancer He was the owner and operator of Chocolate Chip Express in Little Silver, a trucking delivery service, and a property inspector for Stack & Stack Real Estate…
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Dorothy May Loversidge
Ms. Loversidge, 86, a lifelong resident of Red Bank, died Jan. 24, 2010. For 44 years she had worked for the Red Bank Board of Education and was the secretary to the principal of Red Bank High School, retiring in 1985. Ms. Loversidge, the 2008 Alumni of the Year of Red Bank High School, was…
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Mildred E. Crate Angle
Mrs. Angle, 96, died Jan. 27, 2010, at Manor by the sea in Ocean Grove, where she had lived for the past six years. Mrs. Angle was born in Red Bank and had worked for Western Union in Newark. She moved back to the Shore area in 1951 and worked until her retirement as the…
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Schuler-Foster, Kirk, Metlitz capture state sectional gold
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Cameo Kirk took over the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I championships for the Shore Regional Blue Devils for the second straight year. The senior won both the 400- and 800-meter runs as she did in 2009 and anchored the 4×400 team to a second place. Led by Kirk, the Shore…
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