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Blue Devils follow same script that brought state football title
SHORE REGIONAL By MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent Tyreek McCain, right, is one of the many veterans back with the Shore Regional High School football team that captured the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I championship last fall. The Blue Devils started the 2015 season with a 31-7 victory against Keyport High School. RICH GRAESSLE Shore Regional High…
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Prospects brighter for 9/11 health bill passage
By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Advocates for the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act may not have to gear up for as much of a fight to reauthorize the program, which is set to expire in 2016. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-Monmouth, Middlesex), the ranking member of the Committee on Energy…
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New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2015
TOP PICK The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, in association with the Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies, present the New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2015. Showcasing new international films, American independent features, experimental and short subjects, classic revivals, and cutting-edge documentaries, the festival will feature more than 30 film screenings. The 25…
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Eco-tours slated in Monmouth County
Transition Monmouth and environmental commissions from Red Bank, Tinton Falls and Ocean, along with other volunteers, will demonstrate sustainable practices at open houses throughout Monmouth County on Sept. 26 and 27. Learn about mushroom cultivation, rainwater collection, permaculture installations, aquaponics, small animal husbandry, beekeeping, community gardens, a zero-waste business and more. On Sept. 26, tours…
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Vito Anthony Naturale
Vito Anthony Naturale, 85, passed away Sept. 6. He was a devoted father and grandfather. Vito, who was a lifelong resident of Belleville, retired from Hoffmann La Roche in Nutley as a supervisor. An Army veteran of the Korean Conflict, he was a member of the Italian Fiorente Club and the Belleville High School Hall…
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Touch-a-Truck benefit slated in Red Bank
Monmouth Day Care Center (MDCC) will host its sixth annual Touch-a-Truck fundraiser, rain or shine, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Red Bank Middle School, 101 Harding Road, Red Bank. Proceeds will benefit MDCC, a nonprofit serving families seeking childcare. Ambulances, fire engines, military vehicles, dump trucks and other construction vehicles will be…
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Volunteers needed to assist at blood drives
New Jersey Blood Services — a division of New York Blood Center, which supplies blood products and services to 60 hospitals throughout the state — is in need of volunteers at blood drives. The blood-service volunteer is an integral member of the collection team whose task is to assist donors with registration, escorting and canteen…
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Veterans foundation to host ceremony
The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Foundation will hold its annual POW/MIA Gold Star Mothers Recognition Day Ceremony on Sept. 18 at 11 a.m. at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, 1 Memorial Lane, Holmdel, on the grounds of the PNC Bank Arts Center. The ceremony will honor America’s prisoners of war and those missing in…
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Educators can take part in Rider’s Writing Project
The National Writing Project at Rider University (NWP@Rider) invites all area K-12 educators to participate in the following events and programs: The NWP@Rider Fall Harvest Literacy Conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 17. The NWP@Rider Assignments Matter Professional Development Day will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct.…
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