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Bill package links farmers and schools
A bill package that gives children access to healthy school breakfasts and lunches from Jersey-grown products has been signed into law. State Assembly Republicans Ron Dancer, Parker Space and Alison McHose sponsored the bills that enhance the state’s “Farm to School” program, according to a press release. The program is administered by the Department of…
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Home show set for Sept. 20-21
The region’s top home-improvement professionals will gather at the Multipurpose Activity Center on the campus of Monmouth University, West Long Branch, on Sept. 20-21 for the Fall Home Improvement Show. The showcase event for those planning home and landscape projects, renovations, remodeling or new construction is produced by MAC Events of Toms River. “Homeowners will…
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New superintendent gets started in Jackson
By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer JACKSON — The summer recess came to an end for more than 9,000 students on Sept. 3 as all 10 schools in the Jackson School District opened their doors to begin the 2014-15 school year. Stephen Genco starts his first year as Jackson’s superintendent of schools. Genco is a former…
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Howell school board sets guidelines on social media
HOWELL — The Howell K-8 School District Board of Education has approved two policies that are designed to ensure proper and appropriate electronic communications between teachers and support staff employees and students. The policies were approved at a board meeting in August. In efforts toward improving and enhancing the learning experience of students, the district…
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DATEBOOK
A Latino cultural festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 20 at Lake Terrace, 1690 Oak St., Lakewood. The event will have children’s games, folk music, prizes, food and more. Admission is free. Details: 908-216-6235. A gift auction hosted by the St. Aloysius Altar Rosary Society, 935 Bennetts Mills…
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Youths learn it feels good to lend a hand to others
By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer JACKSON — A group of local teenagers spent a week in a small Pennsylvania town in August, working to improve the lives of people they did not know as part of a youth mission trip with the DeBows United Methodist Church. Five Jackson teenagers and three adults traveled to Philipsburg,…
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FOR THE RECORD
State Assembly members Nancy Pinkin, Annette Quijano and Benjie E. Wimberly are the primary sponsors of Bill A2072/S235, which was mentioned in the recent article, “CPR Training Required for High School Students.”
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Years later, unknowns remain in N.J. health insurance market
GUEST COLUMN CAROLYN ANDRESS When the New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters convened its first symposium on health care in 2009, there was tremendous optimism for a solution to the health care crisis that has hit this country. There was a new president in the White House and a yearning for change across the nation.…
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Meat may harbor infectious diseases
The Ebola outbreak has now claimed more than 1,500 lives. While medical personnel and government officials try to cope with the strain put on existing health care systems, it is time for us to look at how animal flesh affects the origin and spread of epidemics. Some attention has been given to the African practice…
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