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Brewers take Brick Nat’l Cal Ripken playoffs
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Ayouth baseball team with 30 home runs usually prevails. But there was more to it than that for the Brewers in the Major Division for 10- to 12- year-olds and star power slugger Nick Zbranak: they led wire to wire and won the Brick National Cal Ripken Tournament playoffs as…
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Writer says former Howell mayor stood up for residents
On June 25, 2008, a letter to the editor printed by the News Transcript, a Greater Media newspaper, questioned a raise presented to retired Freehold Regional High School District Assistant Superintendent of Schools Frank J. Tanzini. That seemingly innocuous inquiry, along with subsequent Open Public Records Access (OPRA) requests, unraveled the largest economic and academic…
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School nature experience a memorable one for pupils
Here at Veterans Memorial Elementary School we always find time in our busy class schedules to take an adventure away from the books to experience nature. We have been extremely dedicated to our school’s courtyard all year long continuing the tradition of turning it into an outdoor learning environment. M any of the learning opportunities…
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GOP legislators criticize Corzine on tax relief
As we well remember, Gov. Corzine and his ruling party shut down the state for seven days in 2006 while they fought behind closed doors on how best to provide what they later called “permanent” and “sustainable” property tax relief for the nation’s highest taxed homeowners. When they emerged from their secret meetings, they announced…
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Letter
With this new schedule our kids are going to be sitting around in the morning waiting for the bus and then getting home at 4 p.m. with an hour before dinner. There would be no time for play dates, and on certain days running right off to activities, religious education, etc., with no time for…
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Mom pulled to curb by fashion police
Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH My mother-in-law was a sharp dresser. Her shoes matched her slacks, which went well with her blouse, and the entire ensemble was properly changed up by her stylish jewels, which complemented her functional and yet fashionable pocketbook. Long before the fashion police regulated women’s luncheons and Mr. Blackwell’s…
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Parent slams new school opening and closing times
Your Turn Guest Column • Sharon Rosa-Bohrer This is an open letter to Superintendent Hrycenko, administrators and Board of Education members. I am sure I am not the first to express my feelings about the new length-of-school-day plan, which my child only brought home today — the day before school ends for the year. Like…
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Nicholas “Nick” Vloyanetes
Mr. Vloyanetes, 94, of Long Branch, died June 18, 2009, at St. Barnabas Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, Long Branch. He was employed in the restaurant field at the Officers Club, Fort Monmouth, Eatontown; Molly Pitcher Hotel, Red Bank; and retired from Old Orchard Restaurant & Golf Club, West Long Branch, in 1979. He…
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Annemarie A. Jones
Mrs. Jones, 63, of Howell, died June 13, 2009, at Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. She was born in Paterson and had lived in Wayne and Jackson before settling in Howell. Mrs. Jones was a homemaker. She was predeceased by her parents and a sister. She is survived by her husband of 35 years, A. Peter…
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