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• A vendor shopping event will be held at All That Dance, 440 Chandler Road, Jackson, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 5. Vendors will include Gourmet Cookies, Pampered Chef, Tastefully Simple, Dove Chocolate, Discoveries, Scrap About It, Lia Sophia, Mary Kay and more. Details: 732- 367-6021. • A holiday extravaganza will be held…
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Couple conjures up the charm of days gone by
New business provides horse-drawn carriage rides for all occasions BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Richard Osborn takes patrons on a horse-drawn wagon ride through his family’s Our American Dream Farm in Upper Freehold Township. JEFF GRANIT staff UPPER FREEHOLD — A desire to share their love of horses with others is the…
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Food drive for Popcorn Park Zoo
The Mary Klink Memorial Pet Food/Supply Drive to benefit the Popcorn Park Zoo, Lacey, is currently under way. Donation buckets are available at the New Egypt Agway, Rick’s Saddle Shop in Cream Ridge, Dill’s in Freehold, Pet Life in Allentown, Pets and Hobbies in Cream Ridge, and Precious Pets in Hamilton. Donations are also being…
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Plumsted Twp. Senior Outreach plans lunch
Plumsted Township Senior Outreach Services (SOS) will host its second annual Winter Luncheon from noon to 2 p.m. Jan. 13, at the SOS community room located at 121 Evergreen Road in New Egypt. The cost to attend is $8 and seats are very limited. Details and registration: 609-758- 2241, ext 111. Register by Dec. 9.
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Pinelands panel will help towns pay to implement clustering rules
At a recent meeting, the Pinelands Commission voted to help 37 Pinelands municipalities offset costs they will incur to implement recent rule changes that will better protect the Pinelands’ unique environment. A portion of Jackson is in the Pinelands. According to a press release, the commission dedicated a total of up to $305,000 in funds…
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Keepers there for the taking
Fish On • RON NUZZOLO The more boats there are on dry dock, the better the fishing gets. As boat owners continue to call it a season, the bass fishing remains red hot. Bass and blues continue to feast on sand eels. From Sandy Hook all the way to Brielle, the birds, bass and blues…
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When it comes to love, can the third time be the charm?
Girl Talk • CLARE MARIE CELANO There’s a great dialogue exchange between Christopher Plummer and Diane Lane, who play father and daughter in the film “Must Love Dogs.” Lane is admonishing her widowed father about dating indiscriminately, seemingly unconcerned about hurting the women who have come to truly care about him. Plummer delivers a line…
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English Christmas dinner event Dec. 4
The English-Speaking Union, Monmouth County Branch, will hold its English Christmas dinner, “A Feast of Fools,” 6:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at the Rumson Country Club. The event will feature cocktails, dinner, wassail beverages, and caroling. Dress is formal, “foolish,” or “foolish formal.” Cost is $68 per guest and $62 per members. For more information, call…
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Bay historian memorialized simpler way of life now gone
Robert Jahn, 62, loses battle with lung cancer, but his book lives on BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Robert Jahn’s love of Barnegat Bay was born when he was a small boy, sitting on the wooden porch of his grandfather’s home on Mantoloking Road in Brick Township. His grandfather would light a pipe, settle…
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