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Look locally when shopping for your fall home improvement needs
A.J. Perry Plumbing, Heating and Cooling The fall season is the perfect backdrop for deep cleaning, home spruce-ups and home improvement projects you’ve been putting off, inside and outside of your home. Now is the time to shop around for those household items you need and desire. It is also the time to find just…
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Cambodian refugee shares story of atrocities, survival
By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer Chanty Jong, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, shares her experiences at the East Brunswick Public Library Sept. 3. PHOTO BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR A n estimated 2 million people were killed when revolutionary Cambodian dictator Pol Pot rose to power in 1975 and ordered the immediate…
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Information meeting for Cub Scouts Sept. 22
Cub Scout Pack #1 in Monmouth Beach invites boys in first through fifth grades to come to the “Join Scouts Information Meeting” from 2-3:30 p.m. Sept. 22, at the Church of the Precious Blood Parish Center, 72 Riverdale Ave., Monmouth Beach. The Cub Scout program is designed for boys and their families to work together…
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STORK CLUB
Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, announced the following birth: July 29, a girl to Dianna Mazyck and Phil Craddock of Ocean. Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, announced the following births: July 18, a girl to Sonia A. and James L. Roberts of Ocean; July 20, a boy to Filipinas and Joseph Carreon of Eatontown.
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Feldbaum–Smith
Joni Feldbaum and Matthew Smith Judith and Hal Feldbaum of Oakhurst announce the engagement of their daughter, Joni Feldbaum, to Matthew Smith, son of Linda and Jeffrey Smith of Wayne. The future bride is the granddaughter of Audrey and Alfred Silverstein of Boynton Beach, Fla. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from…
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Sea Bright officials mull consolidation post-Sandy
By NICOLE ANTONUCCI and KENNY WALTER Staff Writers SEA BRIGHT — With a massive rebuilding effort ahead, the borough is looking at all options, including consolidating with a neighboring municipality. Members of the Borough Council approved a resolution at the Sept. 3 meeting appointing four members to a Citizen Advisory Committee to study the economic…
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Chamber and MODC holding network event
The Greater Long Branch Chamber of Commerce and Monmouth-Ocean Development Council (MODC) are holding a joint business after-hours event from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Sept. 26 at the Ronald McDonald House, 131 Bath Ave., Long Branch. Attendees can meet and greet the MODC and Greater Long Branch Chamber of Commerce representatives in a casual and relaxed…
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Pallone will speak to condo group
LONG BRANCH — U.S. Rep. Frank J. Pallone Jr. (D-Middlesex) will address beach and coastal issues at the Long Branch Coalition of Condominium Associations (LBCC) meeting on Sept. 23. The group will meet at Harbour Mansion, 675 Ocean Ave., at 7 p.m. Composed of more than 35 condominium associations, the LBCC was established 10 years…
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Lawsuit challenges state to release grant records
By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer A housing advocacy group has filed suit to force the state to provide information on how $850 million in federal grant funds are being distributed to Sandy-impacted residents. The Fair Share Housing Center (FSHC) filed suit on Sept. 11 against the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA), claiming that state…
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