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Resident is pleased that Manalapan police chief will defend himself
I was at the Manalapan Township Committee meeting on Aug. 12, listening to residents and nonresidents talking about the upstanding police chief we have in Chief Stuart Brown. Some of those stories were amazing. He has spent his entire 29-year career doing his job well, and being a kind and caring person. I am glad…
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Chris Christie’s plan will punish criminal office-holders in New Jersey
Now that dozens of elected Democratic officials and operatives have been arrested and charged with corruption in a sweeping investigation begun under Chris Christie’s watch as U.S. Attorney, Gov. Jon Corzine has suddenly found the gumption to demand that the accused politicians resign from office and the entrenched interests in Trenton adopt sweeping ethics reforms.…
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Clean energy can be our 21st-century moon shot
Guest Column • Doug O’Malley Alot of heat — and not so much light — has been made about the U.S. House vote earlier this summer to pass the American Clean Energy and SecurityAct, which will start to move this country to a clean energy economy. A bipartisan majority of New Jersey’s Congressional delegation showed…
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Corruption a topic, anywhere you look
Guest Column • Arthur Z. Kamin With New Jersey’s tattered governmental ethics reputation what it is — in all candor, it isn’t easy these days being an international traveler who hails from the Garden State. My wife, Ginny, and I just returned after touring Australia, New Zealand and Fiji as part of a group of…
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Former St. Rose principal takes post in South Amboy
SOUTH AMBOY — When one diocese closed a door, another opened a window. Such was the case for Sister Marie Connolly, who is the new principal at South Amboy’s Sacred Heart School, which is part of the Diocese of Metuchen. She comes from St. Joseph Elementary School, a Diocese of Trenton school in Keyport that…
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A real case of puppy love
Around Town Around Town • AMY ROSEN I always wanted a dog. From the time I was a child, if anyone asked me what I wanted for my birthday, without hesitation I answered, "a dog." Since we did not have a backyard for a dog to roam around in, my parents did not think it…
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You can use a chainsaw to correct rude behavior
Coda • GREG BEAN We live in a state where we are regularly witness to, or victims of, rude behavior. And most of us not only tolerate it, we enable it. You know the kind of situation I’m talking about. You’re at the boarding counter at the airport when you’re told your flight to Cleveland…
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Business Briefs
Studio V Mind, Body and Soul will hold its first Spin-A-Thon next month to benefit the Ashley Lauren Foundation, a local charity that provides financial assistance and support services to families with children who have cancer. Spinners will pedal continuously from 5 p.m. Sept. 25 to 5 p.m. Sept. 26 at the fitness center, 265…
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Depression/bipolar support groups to meet
Depression and bipolar support groups will meet 7:30-9 p.m. every Monday at the Metuchen YMCA, 65 High St., Metuchen; and 7:30-9:15 p.m. every Friday at the Robert Wood Johnson hospital auditorium, One Robert Wood Johnson Plaza, New Brunswick. The support groups are intended as an informal forum for education, support and socialization among patients diagnosed…
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