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Carolin M. Muchmore
Mrs. Muchmore, of Oceanport, died March 29, 2009, at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. She had resided in Jackson and Millstone before relocating to Oceanport 12 years ago. Mrs. Muchmore was a broker and the owner/operator of Realty Executives Your Home, Jackson, for the past 15 years. She was predeceased by a son, Robert…
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Sure could use a little bit of good news today
Coda • GREG BEAN Every day, I wake up with a different song playing on an endless loop in my brain. Why my brain picks that day’s song has always been a mystery to me. On days when the song of the day is something by Ry Cooder or Bruce Springsteen, I walk with an…
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Business Briefs
The Department of Continuing and Professional Education at Ocean County College is offering the following • “Job Search Workshop with Résumé Writing,” offered 9-11 a.m., Tuesdays, May 5-26 or 6-8:30 p.m., Wednesdays, June 3- 24 at the OCC Main Campus, College Drive, Toms River. The cost is $52. This program reveals the secret of an…
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N.B. honors students, history makers
Proclamation presented to the late Frank Petrich, who served as chairman in the mid-1900s BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer The Rev. David Luckey NORTH BRUNSWICK — The North Brunswick Township Council honored several residents during its public meeting March 16. Health educators Karen Bright, Marjorie Spangler and Diane Markert were honored for their participation with…
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Faith-based organizations fighting hunger
Acoalition of faith-based and social service agencies have started a massive food drive to meet the escalating demands for emergency food in Middlesex County. The Middlesex County Coalition to Combat Poverty and Hunger is appealing to residents to donate non-perishable food and personal items. The event is timed to coincide with the Jewish Passover and…
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Where’s Waldo? In New Brunswick!
PHOTO COURTESY OF GIANNI CIPRIANO On April 2, Rutgers University broke the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest gathering of people dressed as “Where’s Waldo?,” as 1,052 students were in attendance at the State Theatre in New Brunswick.
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Corzine: Dire times call for tough choices
Governor defends budget as maintaining priorities BY JENNIFER AMATO and BRIAN DONOHUE Staff Writers In the weeks since delivering his $29.8 billion budget proposal, Gov. Jon Corzine has faced criticism for what one New Jersey radio station has described as “the death of the middle class.” Gov. Jon Corzine Much of the backlash stems from…
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Why did the amphibians cross the road?
Right: A female salamander, whose swollen midsection indicates she’s filled with eggs, crosses Beekman Road in East/South Brunswick March 26, when observers came out to watch the amphibians’ annual migration to breed in nearby vernal pools. Officials closed the road that rainy evening so that the 7-inch female and others could be spared from passing…
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Three seats available on So. Brunswick school board
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer Elizabeth Chang SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Voters will decide April 21 which of the seven candidates vying for three seats on the township school board will join the board. The South Brunswick Board of Education election includes two incumbents, Barry Nathanson and Stephen F. Parker. The candidates running for their first…
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