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AARP supports Caregiver Tax-Credit Bill
Caregiving is stressful and expensive — in more ways than one. The average American caregiver is a 49-yearold woman who works while taking care of her elderly mother struggling with Alzheimer’s or some other illness — maybe several. For the caregiver, it may be a labor of love, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t costly…
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A visit by a therapy dog to the Parsons Elementary School in North Brunswick on March 7 gave one first-grader a chance to do some hands-on learning. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR
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Towns want state to return millions in utility taxes
By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Monmouth and Middlesex officials have joined a chorus of voices throughout New Jersey in calling on the state to turn more than $1 billion in energy receipts taxes over to the towns that deserve them. Middletown Township Committeeman Anthony Fiore said his governing body will consider a resolution on March…
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Oceanport proposes $7.8M tab, tax increase
By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer OCEANPORT — The Borough Council has introduced the proposed municipal budget for 2014, which will call for a tax increase for the first time in four years. The council voted unanimously to introduce the $7.89 million spending plan, which has decreased from last year’s $9.4 million budget. The public hearing…
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Sea Bright to receive new paint job, party
By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer The exteriors of properties along a stretch of Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright will get a new coat of paint this spring after placing among the winning towns in Benjamin Moore’s Main Street Matters contest. A stretch of Ocean Avenue will get a major aesthetic overhaul this spring when a…
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Sea Bright firehouse condemned
By GREG KENNELTY Sea Bright Fire & Rescue is relocating equipment to neighboring towns after the company’s firehouse on Ocean Avenue was deemed unsafe. GREG KENNELTY/staff Staff Writer T he Sea Bright Fire Company headquarters, which was damaged by superstorm Sandy, has been deemed unsafe by federal and local officials, and firefighting equipment is being…
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Irish eyes and ears focus on pipes and drums
By JACK MURTHA Staff Writer Frank Johnson (l) and Kate Honan rehearse with other members of the Pipes and Drums of Barnegat Bay at the Christ Episcopal Church in Toms River on March 5. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Like a perfectly poured pint of Guinness, pipes-and-drums bands have long steered the Irish through times of…
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Middlesex County Chapter of Women’s Council of Realtors installs officers
A t the Women’s Council of Realtors Hospitality Room in the Atlantic City Convention Center, the Middlesex County Chapter of the Women’s Council of Realtors (www.wcrnj.com) installed the officers comprising its 2014 Leadership Team, during the Triple Play Realtors Convention in December. Axel Schroeder of Keller Williams Elite Realtors in Metuchen was installed as chapter…
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REAL ESTATE BRIEFS
On Nov. 10, 2013, three Keller Williams Elite, Realtors — Celadawn Reid, Lorraine Colavito and Kathleen Morin— participated in the volunteer Habitat for Humanity Build called Habitat Terrace, in San Francisco’s Oceanview, Merced, Ingleside neighborhood. There the agents helped set sills, build and erected framework, and generally assisted in the project. “I am so proud…
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