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Theresa Oder
Ms. Oder, 92, of South River, died April 14, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1979, she was employed as a machine operator with M&M Sportswear, South River, where she worked for 47 years. She was predeceased by a sister, Anna Horvath, and by six brothers, Joseph,…
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Dorothy R. Gehling Niedzwiecki
Mrs. Niedzwiecki, 70, of Spotswood, formerly of Monroe, died April 6, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1999, she was employed as a computer operator with the Monroe Township Municipal Utilities Authority, where she worked for 17 years. Before that, she was a computer operator with the…
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Why enhance transportation if there is no one to use it?
The fictional movie “Field of Dreams” revolves around a cast of ghosts playing baseball on a makeshift ball field. The phrase, “If you build it, they will come,” sums up actor Kevin Costner’s mission to build this baseball diamond within the cornfield where the ghosts live. Fiction similarly comes to mind pondering just what our…
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Councilman apologizes for signing letter
Dominick Turitto Sr. recently wrote a letter to the editor in which he expressed his opinions on the outgoing school board member and the current candidates (“Same Old, Same Old on Spotswood Board of Education,” Sentinel, April 2). His letter got the attention of several and a response (“Applaud Those Who Serve in More Than…
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Community volunteers should be praised
Iam responding to Dominick Turitto’s letter to the editor (“Same Old, Same Old on Spotswood Board of Education,” Sentinel, April 2). You are certainly entitled to your opinion; however, I do not understand your implication. The members of the Spotswood Board of Education are routinely members of the Spotswood Soccer Club (or the like)? The…
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Family vacation: the good the bad and the flat ugly
Coda • GREG BEAN When I was a kid, family vacations were a special level of hell reserved for the worst miscreants imaginable. And it wasn’t the Hades we learned about in Bible class, the kind of place you go after a long lifetime of misdeeds. Nope, family vacations were a more immediate form of…
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NOTES
Richard Stillman entertains a group of youngsters and parents with a tap dance at the Middletown Main Library on April 20. Photographer Kim Levin, Little Silver, will hold book signings 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Paw Palace, 19 W. Front St., Red Bank; and 2-4 p.m. at Barnes and Noble at The Commons at Holmdel, 2134…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Jeanne Woodford, of the Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge, Medford, holds a rescued peregrine falcon before releasing it April 19 at Bayshore Waterfront Park in New Monmouth. The event was held to raise awareness of the success of wildlife management programs and of the urgent need for comprehensive climate legislation that includes…
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‘Making Trouble’
Adocumentary film that tells the story of some of the greatest female comic performers of the last century will be screened at 7 p.m. Thursday at Congregation B’nai Israel in Rumson. “Making Trouble” features Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner and Wendy Wasserstein. Hosted by four of today’s funniest women —…
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