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Total recall?
Q&A with Sharon Peters Q: It seems like every time I turn on the TV I hear about another recall. Is there any way to find out how many vehicles have been affected? And how does that compare to years past? Maybe I’m just hypersensitive, but it seems like way more recently. A: It was…
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Best new-car engines for 2015
By Jim Gorzelany CTW Features The engine is a vehicle’s heart and soul, with the best of the breed able to deliver brisk acceleration while minimizing fuel consumption It’s not an easy task, but automakers have been hard at work developing automotive engines that maximize both a vehicle’s performance and fuel economy, via an array…
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Coming soon to a home near you
By Erik J. Martin CTW Features ‘The New American Home’ 2015 shows off what’s to come in homebuilding technology For many prospective home purchasers, The New American Home (TNAH) appears as a tantalizing mirage: a custom palace decked to the gills in posh amenities but far out of reach for the practical consumer who doesn’t…
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SPORT SHORTS
Monroe Sports Center is holding Spring Break Basketball Camps for boys and girls in grades 3-9. One camp is April 3 (cost $65) and the other is April 6-10 ($275 after April 4 and $245 for early registration by April 4). All camps run from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. New this year is a Small Fry…
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Softball, baseball underway at Middlesex
The weather in March has limited the Middlesex County College softball team to just two games as the schedule turns to April. Fortunately for Middlesex, both of those games were wins. Middlesex handled Westchester Community College, 16-8 and 11-7, in a March 24 doubleheader played on the Blue Colts’ home diamond in Edison. Coach Carey…
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Redbirds set to challenge for third straight division title
ALLENTOWN By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Allentown High School’s baseball team began its quest for a third straight Colonial Valley Conference Patriot Division championship season with a large group of returning players, including six starters from last year’s 15-9 team, when it opened its season April 1 at Steinert High School. The Redbirds play their home-opener…
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Conservation group awards scholarships
The Freehold Soil Conservation District will award three $2,000 scholarships in the summer of 2015 to students majoring in a conservation-related field. The Neal Munch, Mac Clark and Bill Schauer scholarships are awarded annually to honor their years of dedicated and distinguished service to conservation and to the Freehold Soil Conservation District, according to a…
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Gabriel
TOP PICK Young Prince Gabriel is dashing and debonair, well-trained in sword fighting and horseback riding — and set to inherit his grandfather’s vast fortune. There’s just one problem: On his 16th birthday, Gabriel finds out that he is a she. How will Gabriel proceed to live and love in the rigidity of the 19th…
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New safe house will shelter victims of domestic abuse
By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer During the past five years, 180 Turning Lives Around has provided safe shelter for more than 400 adult victims of domestic and sexual abuse and 500 children, but the nonprofit has had to turn away just as many individuals. To meet the growing need for safe shelter, the nonprofit…
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