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Hawks ready to reclaim NEC spot
BY DOUG McKENZIE Staff Writer After claiming its eighth regular-season conference title and coming within one game of winning its fourth Northeast Conference Tournament crown a year ago, the Monmouth University baseball team has returned to the playing field with the highest of aspirations this year.H ead coach Dean Ehehalt’s Hawks return 27 players from…
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Tell ASIG New Jersey’s ocean is not for sale
Take enough dirt, sediment, and other building materials to fill 10 Empire State buildings. The Atlantic Sea Island Group (ASIG) wants to create an island with this material to be used for a facility to offload, store, and process liquefied natural gas (LNG) only 19.5 miles off the coast of Sea Bright. This group has…
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RFH’s Smith jumps to MOC state title
RBC’s McNamara second in 1,600 BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Rumson-Fair Haven senior Melissa Bellin (center) competes in the girls 400-meter dash during the 44th annual NJSIAA Indoor Track and Field Meet of Champions held at the John Bennett Indoor Athletic Complex in Toms River on Feb. 21. Winning a…
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Rescind COAH back to its inception in 1985
Iappreciate the response of Richard Hall to my previous letter. Our legislators and our New Jersey residents are missing the lesson of history. Free enterprise is the freedom of people and private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation. In the early 1900s, there were no restrictions on where people could live…
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String suite
Clockwise from top left: Eldrina Corrales (second from left) plays the violin with the Red Bank Middle School Orchestra during an Intradistrict String Festival on Feb. 6. Red Bank Regional High School student Matt Keppler plays the bass during the festival, held at the Little Silver school. Sandra Paz performs with the Red Bank Middle…
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3-D works a first for art guild
The Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury is holding its first 3-D exhibit. The show features 84 works in a wide range of mediums, including glass, wood, paper, clay, metal, as well as installation art, multimedia and photo collage. The works of some 50 artists vary widely, embracing traditional, nonrepresentational and abstract pieces. Wooden bowl…
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An auto fix so simple even a caveman could do it
Coda • GREG BEAN As an admitted American car nut, I’ve watched with horror, disbelief and profound sadness the parade of auto executives coming before Congress with their hands out in recent weeks. General Motors, which had already gotten $17.4 billion in loans from the government, said it needs another $16.6 billion to keep the…
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Senator misses key points on affordable housing
Your Turn Guest Column • Joseph Doria In response to state Sen. Jennifer Beck’s latest unfounded attack on the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH), (“Gov.’s Affordable Housing Law is Destructive to New Jersey,” News Transcript, Feb. 18), I felt it was necessary to reply and correct the various inaccuracies stated in her editorial.…
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Free job training for residents 55 and older
The National Council on Aging (NCOA) has implemented a U.S. Department of Labor grant to train adults age 55 years and older, in high-growth health care occupations. NCOA has joined forces with Ocean County College’s Department of Continuing and Professional Education to offer a variety of noncredit certificate courses that train older adults to reenter…
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