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Plumsted, developer remain in talks about adult homes
By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer PLUMSTED — Negotiations between municipal officials and representatives of Lennar Homes concerning the construction of an adult community have once again been extended as both parties continue to work out the details of the agreement. The envisioned adult community is a key component of the New Egypt Redevelopment Plan and…
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Jackson Women of Today mark 50 years of service
By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer JACKSON — In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. was a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, gas cost 30 cents a gallon and a new home sold for about $20,000. For the current members of the Jackson Women of Today, the summer of 1964 has special significance as they gear…
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Work begins on BJ’s Wholesale Club
HOWELL — Construction has begun on a BJ’s Wholesale Club at Route 9 north and Lanes Mills Road in a 340,000-square-foot shopping center known as The Grove. The location is planned to include several restaurants, a movie theater, a fitness center and a mobile device store, according to Giorgio Vasilis of the Sitar Realty Co.…
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Additional sexual assault charges lodged against former coach
A former Middlesex County College basketball coach was charged May 20 with improperly touching a male teenager who was a member of his Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) travel basketball team. Christopher Tarver, 43, of Jackson, was also charged with allegedly obtaining nude photos of the child in exchange for alcohol and marijuana, and providing alcohol…
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The American Legion Riders from American Legion Post 455, 2 Meadowbrook Lane, New Egypt, invite motorcycle riders and all other members of the community to their third annual Cruise for the Cure. The June 22 event will start as a motorcycle ride from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 2575 Klockner Road, Hamilton Township,…
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Options exist to keep the elderly at home
Most people do not wake up one day and decide they want to move into a nursing home. Traditionally, they live there because they have medical and personal needs that cannot be met at home. As a former nursing home administrator and current New Jersey long-term care ombudsman, I think I can state with some…
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Message of drug dangers must be reinforced
The Ocean County Health Department is in the “GAME” of helping our young people stay away from drugs. Growing Children/Adolescent Minds Everywhere (GAME) is a new and innovative program that uses existing sports programs to reinforce the dangers of substance abuse. As liaison to the Ocean County Board of Health, I have seen how drugs…
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Republicans need qualified candidates
I hope that in 2016 the Republicans will put up candidates people in good conscience can support. To start with, they have to resist attacking groups and concepts they are not comfortable with: welfare recipients, food stamp recipients, the poor, the homeless, the unemployed, Planned Parenthood, contraception, voting rights, women’s rights, all unions, gays, Muslims,…
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AMY ROSEN/STAFF A double rainbow is visible in the sky over Manalapan following a rain storm on May 19.
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