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Enrichment program ends after 44 years in Matawan
By NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer MATAWAN — After 44 years, the Matawan Student Enrichment Program (MSEP), which has offered lessons in noncurriculum activities and courses each Saturday to hundreds of students, is ending. Earlier this month, MSEP Executive Director Leonard Brokaw announced the nonprofit would no longer hold classes due to decreased enrollment. “Times have…
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Seniors on pension need financial break
I once was an accepted member of society, but then I did something I shouldn’t have. Now I’m ostracized and ignored by everyone outside my own small group. I didn’t realize I was heading in the wrong direction, but everyone does it for a while until they stop. I just never stopped. What I did…
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FRANK GALIPO Volunteers plant the Field of Flags at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Middletown, as a tribute to U.S. troops lost in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on Oct. 19.
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Let’s serve veterans as well as they have served us
YOUR TURN DANIEL M. DELLINGER GUEST COLUMN During the recent government shutdown, many numbers were thrown around. But there is one that stands out, and it has nothing to do with the debate over the federal budget. More than one a day — that is how many members of our active-duty military, National Guard and…
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Residents protest Holmdel cell tower
By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Nearly a dozen township families have retained an attorney to fight a Verizon Wireless proposal to build a 140- foot-tall cell tower on Porter Farm. The proposed tower, which could possibly be extended to 160 feet and would resemble a pine tree on the Middletown Road farm, has…
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Matawan-Aberdeen library to hold book sale
MATAWAN — The Friends of the Matawan-Aberdeen Public Library will hold the Fall Book Sale 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 9. Sale items may be previewed from 9-10 a.m. for a $5 entry fee. In addition to a wide variety of books for all ages, movies and audio books will be available for sale.…
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Union Beach reflects range of recovery stories
By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Gov. Chris Christie embraces Union Beach homeowner Angela Ciangiotto in front of her Scholer Road home on Oct. 29, the one-year anniversary of superstorm Sandy. PHOTOS BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR One year after Sandy, recovery looks very different for Bayshore residents impacted by the superstorm. Those differences were clear…
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Conference brings a flood of new ideas
By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Left to right: Peter Reinhart, director of the Kislak Real Estate Institute; former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman; retired U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen; Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation President Chris Daggett; and Polling Institute Director Patrick Murray discuss the future of New Jersey during the “Sandy: One Year Later” conference…
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Vietnam vets share stories as tour guides
By STELLA MORRISON Staff Writer Walter Balon, a member of American Legion Lenape Post 211, raises his hand in a salute during an Oct. 20 remembrance service at Sayreville Borough Hall. The annual ceremony honors those who fought in the Vietnam War. SCOTT FRIEDMAN I t would be decades after the Vietnam War before some…
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