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Weichert Real Estate Affiliates adds new offices in 2015, nearly double 2104 expansion rate
Weichert Real Estate Affiliates, Inc., the franchise division of Weichert, Realtors, continues to raise its profile throughout the country with the year-to-date addition of 38 franchise offices to its rapidly growing nationwide network. “Because of our cutting-edge technology and wide variety of marketing tools and programs, we continue to attract new real estate entrepreneurs to…
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Creative expression flourishes at Around the Corner Art Center
BUSINESS By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer Merrill Tilker, left, and Mark Kolessar, owners of the Around the Corner Art Center, Freehold Township. CHRISTINE BARCIA/STAFF Budding and seasoned artists alike have had a place here to call home for more than three decades. The Around the Corner Art Center, 290 Mount’s Corner Drive, Freehold Township, started…
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Rutgers U. feasibility study to examine adaptive sports
By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer When Eric Katz of Monroe Township, Middlesex County, was looking to begin his career as a wheelchair athlete, his first choice was at his home school of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. However, Katz, now 32, had to enroll at the University of Arizona because Rutgers did not offer an…
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Family fun will be on tap at Millstone Color-A-Thon
By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent MILLSTONE — The Millstone Township K-8 School District PTO and PTSA are joining forces to host the first Color-A-Thon on Oct. 18 at the Millstone Township Middle School, 5 Dawson Court. Registration and pre-race activities will begin at 8 a.m. The Color-A-Thon race is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. The…
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Millstone middle school pupils will each receive Chromebook
By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent MILLSTONE — Christopher Huss, the principal of the Millstone Township Middle School, has announced that all students enrolled at the school will be provided with a Google Chromebook computer to enhance the learning experience for the 2015-16 school year. “I am ecstatic about the opportunity being afforded to our students through…
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Audubon bird walk slated for Oct. 18
The Monmouth County Audubon Society will host an autumn bird walk at 10 a.m. Oct. 18. Participants should meet in the parking lot at the closed Sandy Hook visitor center between lots D and E on Hartshorne Drive. The peninsula of Sandy Hook in northern Monmouth County attracts migrating raptors, shorebirds and songbirds due to…
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‘Alice in Wonderland’ celebrated
A celebration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s most famous book, “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland,” will take place with a series of events in the Monmouth County Library System. Beginning Sept. 3, lobby showcases at the Eastern Branch Library, 1001 Route 35, Shrewsbury, will feature Alice’s dress, tea sets, a…
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Sports betting proponents lose round in court
By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer The state and the operators of Monmouth Park, Oceanport, are once again forced to swing for the fences after their pursuit of legalized sports betting was shot down in court a second time. In an Aug. 25 ruling, two of three Third Circuit Court of Appeals judges ruled in favor…
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Archivists to speak at Monmouth County Library Headquarters
The theme of Monmouth County’s 2015 Archives Week is the World War I era from approximately 1910 to 1920. Archives Week will feature special movie screenings and seminars, according to a press release from the county. Archives and History Day will be held on Oct. 3 at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, Symmes Drive, Manalapan.…
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