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Safety on roads must become a priority
Tragedy on New Jersey roads is not an acceptable risk. Families and lives are destroyed by car accidents. People are not statistics. There are far too many impromptu memorials alongside our roads. A community effort to improve driving safety is long overdue. Speed, reckless driving, texting and impaired driving are some of the root causes…
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Issues exist with property assessments
I am writing in response to the recent letter to the editor from Monmouth County Freeholder Thomas A. Arnone. I am a victim of the new property tax assessment law, better known as the law to make people unable to successfully file and win tax appeals, which Mr. Arnone helped to put into place last…
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Howell man facing prison sentence
AHowell man pleaded guilty on Sept. 19 to charges related to a fatal motor vehicle collision in June 2013 that took the life of one of his passengers and injured a second passenger, Monmouth County Acting Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced. Jacob Cannizzaro, 21, of Howell, pleaded guilty to second degree vehicular homicide, fourth degree…
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The death of common sense
GUEST COLUMN ROSE ANN SCOTTI I n 2010, a bill was passed in the state Legislature that lowered the safety zone for crossbow hunting from 450 feet to 150 feet from an occupied dwelling. The 150-foot and 450-foot parameters are distance from an “occupied dwelling,” not a property line, a barn, a garden shed, a…
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Writers asks for ‘yes’ vote on public question
On Nov. 4, New Jersey citizens will have an opportunity to vote to approve the dedication of muchneeded funds for open space, parks, farmland and historic preservation as well as other important environmental programs. The funding would replenish the nowdepleted Green Acres, Blue Acres, farmland and historic preservation programs, and continue to support water protection,…
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Legend of Irish Jack slated for this weekend
MARLBORO — Kateri Environmental Center, 160 Conover Road, will present the story of Irish Jack on Oct. 24 and 25. For the 28th year, Kateri will present this live drama that tells the origins of Halloween. The woodland trails will be lit with more than 250 jack-o’-lanterns. Visitors walk through the woods and meet the…
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Author will discuss ‘Rising from Katrina’
Award-winning journalist and author Kathleen Koch will explore questions in an examination of human resilience that springs from a deeply personal assignment: covering the destruction of her hometown by Hurricane Katrina. Koch wrote “Rising from Katrina: How My Mississippi Hometown Lost It All and Found What Mattered” after her hometown of Bay St. Louis, Miss.,…
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Monmouth celebrates GRAMMY Museum status
By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Monmouth University President Paul R. Brown and the GRAMMY Museum Director Bob Santelli celebrate the school’s new affiliation with the Los Angeles-based GRAMMY Museum. JEREMY GROSSMAN/STAFF Some of the biggest names in music have come out of the Jersey Shore, and there’s about to be plenty more. Monmouth University held…
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