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The House of Influx
TOP PICK What lurks in the deep, sometimes dark rooms of unconscious minds, and how does one unlock the door? Rutgers Theater Company explores this hidden side in “The House of Influx,” running March 3-8. New Jersey residents involved in the production include cast members Rachel Cholowinski of Farmingdale and Brandon Fox of Wall, set…
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Historical society to offer craft workshops
The Historical Society of Ocean Grove will host winter and spring workshops at 50 Pitman Ave., Ocean Grove. The cost is $15 for each class along with an additional kit fee. A yo-yo stitchery class will be held 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Feb. 28. Instructor Vicki Bacolo will show how to use this simple stitchery to…
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Relief effort aids Ocean Grove residents displaced by blaze
By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer OCEAN GROVE — The fire that destroyed a three-story building at 50 Main Ave. began on the second floor of the building, according to investigators. The Feb. 6 blaze destroyed all seven apartments and four businesses in the building, displacing 30 residents. The cause of the fire remains undetermined…
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Sentencing set for Long Branch man in 2013 stabbing death
LONG BRANCH — A Long Branch man will be sentenced in April after pleading guilty to first-degree aggravated manslaughter in the 2013 death of an El Salvadorian man. Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced that Victor Garzon-Alvarez, 30, a Mexican national living in Long Branch, pleaded guilty to stabbing 39-year-old Manuel Vilaseca-Cortez of…
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Local towns share $2M in open space grants
By TAYLOR M. LIER Staff Writer The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders has approved the allocation of $2 million from the county’s open space trust fund to finance improvements to parks throughout the county. Now in its 12th year, the Monmouth County Municipal Open Space Grant program helps to improve and develop park facilities and…
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Long Branch revamps city website
By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Residents can now pay taxes online and access city budgets, audit reports and other documents on the city’s redesigned website. Business Administrator Howard Woolley Jr. said the newly designed webpage came online earlier this month and gives residents a more user-friendly experience. “We were trying to fix…
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K-9 officers ready for duty in area police departments
By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer LONG BRANCH — Local police officers and their K-9 counterparts have graduated from basic patrol school and will begin duty with seven law enforcement agencies in the coming month. The eight German shepherds and Belgian malinois will serve in six local police departments and with the Ocean County Sheriff’s Department.…
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Horizon awards funds to 2 local nonprofits
NEWARK — The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey recently announced that it awarded $1,364,000 in grants to 56 New Jersey nonprofit organizations. With these final grant awards in 2014, the foundation awarded 133 grants totaling $3,892,250. Since its inception in 2004, the Horizon Foundation for New Jersey has awarded 1,097 grants totaling more than $38…
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Farmingdale school to relocate to former Steelman building
By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The former Fred G. Steelman School building will become the new site of the Voyagers’ Community School. The owners of the Farmingdale school bought the property in late December, according to Borough Administrator George Jackson. He said its former owners sold the school to the Voyagers’ Community School…
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