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Make a donation, wear a poppy for veterans
For more than 70 years, the American Legion Auxiliary has sponsored Poppy Day to remind America that millions have sacrificed their lives and health to keep our nation strong and free. The poppy, which grew wild on the battlefields of Flanders, became, in the minds of the doughboys of World War I, a symbol of…
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Environmentalists should support cleanups
I’m angry to learn of a pending lawsuit from the Edison Wetlands Association that is designed to stop the remediation of more than 400 acres of waterfront property in Sayreville. After all, aren’t environmental groups supposed to support cleanups? Besides my concerns about the self-interest behind this legal action, I don’t think these so-called environmentalists…
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Nightly newscast: Be afraid, be very afraid
Coda • GREG BEAN Whenever someone asked what I did for a living, I never said I’m in “the media.” “I’m a local newspaperman,” I told them. “There’s a big difference.” Fact is, most local newspaper people of my long acquaintance are idealists who really do want to change the world by making a positive…
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Season opener
SEAN BRADY Baseball’s first pitch is thrown out by Jimmy Monaghan during the Parks and Rec season-opener game held in Little Silver on May 3.
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Teen drivers will display special decal on vehicles
Gov. Corzine signs Kyleigh’s Law Gov. Jon S. Corzine has signed Kyleigh’s Law, making New Jersey the first state in the nation to have a teen driver decal law. Named in honor of 16-year-old Kyleigh D’Alessio, S-2314/A- 3069 requires the use of an identifier on vehicles driven by teens holding a permit or provisional license.…
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‘Touch-A-Truck’
PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Left: Megan Schleig holds the hands of her father, John Schleig, and her mother, Kelly Schleig, as she walks across a flatbed truck at the “Touch-A-Truck” event at Monmouth Regional High School on April 25. Right: Nicholas Kanan, of Shrewsbury, checks out the view from the back of a Tinton…
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NOTES
Tim Patten, a student at Red Bank Regional High School, was a semifinalist at the English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition held April 27 at Lincoln Center in New York City, Among 59 winners of the ESU branch competitions nationwide. Patten won the ESU Monmouth County Branch regional competition in March. Church Women United of the…
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LNG proposals topic of forum
Experts discuss impacts on marine life, energy policy BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — The Monmouth County League of Women Voters sponsored a forum on a controversial proposal to build a facility for liquefied natural gas off the shore of Sea Bright. “Off-Shore Oil and Gas: At What Cost?” was held April 21 at…
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Spring … at last
CHRIS KELLY staff Little Silver’s Astrid Drangeid (l) and Madeline Ploetner, New Vernon, judge entries for the Navesink Garden Club’s daffodil flower show, titled “Le Sacre du Printemps” (“The Rite of Spring”), held at Trinity Episcopal Church, Red Bank, on April 14.
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