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LADACIN will host Rosebud Gala Dinner
LADACIN Network will hold its 28th annual Rosebud Gala Dinner Dance on March 14 at the Sheraton Eatontown Hotel. LADACIN Network, formerly Cerebral Palsy of Monmouth and Ocean counties, serves more than 2,800 infants, children and adults with developmental and multiple physical disabilities in Monmouth and Ocean counties. The Rosebud Gala is the agency’s premier…
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New site helps art go global
Mona Lisa Gallery in Maplewood is offering an online service for artists to sell their work globally at www.monalisaframing. com. Gallery President and Creative Director Krista Hyer will host an artist reception at 7 p.m. March 18 and March 19 where she will demonstrate how to sell art online. The presentation will also include a…
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Woman feared for life during home invasion
Police continue to seek men who terrorized Manalapan resident BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — When the residents of a Terence Drive home moved here from the Bronx, N.Y., 26 years ago, they had an alarm system installed. Coming to the suburbs from the city, where being conscientious about security was a way of…
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Author’s message is to accept others
BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer The young man who once struggled with identity issues stood comfortably in his own skin before a Georgian Court University audience addressing topics such as race, class, religion and homosexuality. On Feb. 12, author, musician and screenwriter James McBride made a second appearance at the university and delivered a message…
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County to take charge of dangerous U.F. road
Sharon Station Rd. re-design expected UPPER FREEHOLD — After years of discussion, Monmouth County will likely take jurisdiction of Sharon Station Road and redesign it. Residents have appeared regularly before the Township Committee to complain about the dangerous conditions of the road. At the Feb. 26 meeting, the governing body unanimously passed a resolution to…
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Allentown water, sewer rates likely to change
Council to hold public hearing on issue March 10 BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — Two ordinances affecting water and sewer rates were introduced at the Feb. 24 Borough Council meeting. A public hearing on the ordinances is scheduled for the March 10 meeting of the governing body. The first ordinance changes the sewer…
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Fire destroys greenhouse
A fire ravaged a greenhouse at the Millstone Koi property on Stillhouse Road Feb. 25. MILLSTONE — A fire tore through a Millstone Koi greenhouse in the early morning hours of Feb. 25. The Millstone Township Fire Department was dispatched to 153 Stillhouse Road at 4:31 a.m. for the reported structure fire. Chief Ed Reed…
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AHS students cast off for charities
Big part of Knitting Club is making items for others BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Knit happens at Allentown High School. The school’s Knitting Club, supervised by history teacher Judy Briar, meets bimonthly and has over 40 members. Those involved in the extracurricular activity not only learn how to create fashionable items for themselves, friends…
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Schedule changes may help budgeting
Budget whittled down for possible 3.9-cent tax increase BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer The Millstone Township School District must make cuts because the state will not allow a 2009-10 budget that depends on more than a 4 percent tax levy increase. At the Feb. 23 Board of Education meeting, Superintendent of Schools Mary Anne…
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