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Red Bank Regional High student takes top honors
A Red Bank Regional High School student has earned top honors at a film festival. John Tuohy, 16, of Little Silver, was awarded Best Picture and Best Short Narrative at the Big Dreams and Silver Screens Youth Festival on June 3 for his short film “Parallax Dreams”. Held in Rahway, the Big Dreams and Silver…
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Monroe Council honors police; new officer sworn in
MONROE — Mayor Gerald W. Tamburro credited a “hardworking” police force and the department’s leadership for the recent mention in a number of national and regional surveys ranking Monroe as a safe city. Safewise recently ranked Monroe as the seventh safest city in the country to raise a child, the National Council for Home Safety…
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Farmingdale to seek grant for firefighting equipment
FARMINGDALE – Municipal officials hope to receive a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that would be used to purchase new firefighting equipment. FEMA offers an Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG). Councilman Michael Romano said Farmingdale representatives will attend a FEMA grant writing seminar on July 26. FEMA staff members do not write…
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Memorial park named for Civil War veteran
ALLENTOWN – An open space parcel that was recently purchased by the borough has been named the Sgt. George Ashby Memorial Park. The open space tract is known as the Wilbert property. Municipal officials named the memorial park in honor of Ashby by passing a resolution at the Borough Council meeting on June 27. The…
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Scholarship barbeque July 23 in Middletown
The 12th Lieutenant Dennis W. Zilinski II Youth Group Memorial Scholarship Barbeque will be held on July 23 at the Middletown reformed Church, 121 Kings Highway, Middletown. The event will be held from 12 p.m. until 2 p.m. The 12 college students who will receive the scholarships are Rileigh Barradale, Izaak Thorpe, Jacie Thorpe, Brooke…
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Metuchen reader advocates for ‘melting pot’
Dear Editor, This letter is in response to the July 12th edition of The Sentinel, regarding a pledge of “Confronting Bigotry.” Whenever I hear the term “diversity” I think about another term “unity” which is left out of today’s political discourse, i.e. common traditional American Values that unite all people in this country. The framer’s…
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South Brunswick officer locates three children reported missing
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A quick police response led officers to find three reported missing children last week. At 4:30 p.m. July 14, a frantic mother called 911 and told South Brunswick police her three children, ages 9, 8 and 2, were missing from her home in the South Ridge townhouse complex, according to information provided…
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North Brunswick mourns loss of high school student
NORTH BRUNSWICK – The entire North Brunswick community is mourning the loss of a student who would have entered his senior year in September. Ibrahim Kargbo, 17, came into contact with Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 141 around 10:22 a.m. July 14, according to Kimberly Woods, Amtrak Media Relations, in an area 12 miles west of…
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A cerebral action film, “Apes” rocks!
By Paul Hall Humans and apes. Are we really that different from each other? Our sense of community, our quest for survival, our emotions, whether buried or released, are all the same for both species. In the new film War for the Planet of the Apes, we simultaneously celebrate and despise the similarities of the…
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