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Board member extends thanks to supporters
Iwould like to thank everyone who came out on April 21 and voted for me for a seat on the North Brunswick Township Board of Education. Your confidence in me made the victory even sweeter. I take pride in the town where I live, especially the school district. I will pick up where I left…
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Local facility ‘pitches’ discounts to baseball players
Youth summer camps to be held in New Brunswick at reduced fee BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Play ball! The Power Pitching & Hitting baseball instruction facility will be offering discounts for summer camps for East, North and South Brunswick residents during its inaugural season in New Brunswick. Two separate weeklong camps will be held…
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Gee, that candy looks good enough to smoke
Coda • GREG BEAN My favorite line from the recent presidential campaign was Barack Obama explaining his youthful experimentation with mind-altering chemicals. “When I was young and stupid, I was young and stupid,” he said. That resonated with me, in large part because there was plenty of stupidity in my own misspent youth. Here, for…
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Business Briefs
Magyar Bank will hold a Community Shred Day, offering residents and businesses an opportunity to shred personal and sensitive documents for free. The event will be 11 a.m.-1 p.m. May 2 at the Kendall Park branch at 3050 State Route 27. Some suggested documents that should be shredded include: bank information, credit card offers/ information,…
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Long Branch to unveil Broadway Park band shell
CARL HOFFMAN The band shell at Broadway Park in Long Branch will be dedicated May 23. LONG BRANCH — The city of Long Branch will inaugurate a new outdoor theatre at Broadway Park on Saturday, May 23. The band shell is the first in an ambitious slate of enhancements to what will one day become…
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Regional school budgets approved
TINTON FALLS — Both Monmouth Regional and Shore Regional high schools saw their proposed budgets approved by a majority of voters during last week’s school board elections. The Monmouth Regional School District, which educates students from Eatontown, Tinton Falls and Shrewsbury Township, proposed a budget of $25,388,429, a decrease from last year’s budget. The budget…
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NOTES
Fraser Bird and Josh Even, students at Seashore School in Long Branch, used heat to differentiate the chemical reactions of three different substances, winning a medal for their team in Science Olympiad 2009. They were part of a team of Seashore fifth- and sixth-graders who took first place in two events and second place in…
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Spring Beach Sweep
PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Volunteers search for litter along the beach in Monmouth Beach as part of Clean Ocean Action’s 24th annual Spring Beach Sweep on April 25. Thousands of volunteers cleared debris from beaches at more than 60 sites along the Jersey Coast.
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Earth Day
PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Above: Jeff Neyhart (l-r), of Farmingdale, and Brandon Neyhart, of West Long Branch, plant a red oak tree during West Long Branch’s Recycling Day held in conjunction with Earth Day at the West Long Branch Community Center on April 25. Below: Herb Jensen, a member of the borough’s Environmental Commission,…
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