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Art in the Park
PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Clockwise from left: William Bunting, Iselin, puts the finishing touches on a painting during the 11th annual Art in the Park held in West End, Long Branch, May 24. Visitors take in the different art forms on view in West End Park. Hiro and Joan Huang, visiting from Maryland, browse…
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Wanted at fair: princesses, superheroes
Is your little one a pretty princess or a ready-to-rescue superhero? State Fair Meadowlands at Giants Stadium Fairgrounds in East Rutherford will host its third annual Prettiest Princess and Superhero Contest on June 28, during this summer’s fair, which will run from June 25 through July 12. Event organizers are looking for girls and boys,…
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Firm offers to redesign Husky Brook Park
T&M would draw new plans at no cost to boro BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The borough’s former engineering firm is offering to absorb the cost of a redesign of the borough’s controversial Husky Brook Park project. T&M Associates extended a conditional offer to the borough following a meeting with representatives from the…
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Local sites slated for preservation funds
Church of Presidents, R.B. Woman’s Club, Parker Homestead on state grant list BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer Alocal site and two others in Red Bank and Little Silver appear on the state historic trust’s preservation grant list and local legislators have pledged their support of the bill. Church of the Presidents in Long Branch…
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City ends wait, adopts historical ordinance
BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Members of Long Branch’s preservation community didn’t have much time to celebrate the adoption of a historical preservation ordinance last week before attending a presentation on a museum looking for a home in the city. The City Council, with three members present, finally adopted a historical preservation ordinance that establishes…
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Officials say MOM line link is off-track
NJ Transit: Other options still being considered BY JAMIE ROMM and DAN HOWLEY Staff Writers Local officials weighed in last week on a report that NJ Transit had decided to run a controversial rail line through Red Bank. According to Eatontown Mayor Gerald Tarantolo, the original intent of the Monmouth Ocean-Middlesex line was to provide…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Anthony Pierro and Charles Rogers, both of Eatontown, romp on one of the inflatable attractions at the Eatontown PTA’s annual carnival held at Wolcott Park on May 30.
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Mary Gibbons Showler
Mrs. Showler, 101, of Ocean Grove, and formerlyWest Long Branch and Long Branch, died May 26, 2009, at Manor by the Sea, Ocean Grove. She was a retired secretary at Long Branch Board of Education, retiring in 1968. Prior to that, she was employed at Norwood Insurance Agency, Long Branch, and an office manager at…
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Joseph F. “Butch” Antonucci
Mr. Antonucci, 87, of Long Branch, died May 23, 2009, at home. He was the co-proprietor of Joe’s Auto Laundry, West Long Branch, from 1949 to 1996. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Josephine Beverly Antonucci; a son and daughter-in-law, Paul and Judy Antonucci of Point Pleasant; a daughter and son-in-law, Claire…
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