Tag: Your Turn guest column
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Monmouth Arts celebrates talent of Monmouth County teen artists
By Sandy Riddle After two long-awaited years, Monmouth Arts returned in person to hold two days of festivities to celebrate Monmouth County’s youth in the arts. For the past 17 years, Monmouth Arts has brought together student artists from across Monmouth County to participate in the annual Monmouth Arts Teen Arts Festival. The festival provides…
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Foundation’s new report shows ‘The Future Is Electric’
By Tom Gilbert It may seem like a tall order: Make changes to your home to lower your energy bills, remove harmful pollutants from the air you breathe, and help in the global fight against climate change. But it is not as hard as it might sound. According to a new report commissioned by the…
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Monmouth County commissioners introduce 2022 budget
By Tom Arnone Last week the 2022 Monmouth County budget was introduced during the March 8 meeting of the Board of County Commissioners. The introduced budget is $474.1 million for 2022 and once again there is no tax increase for the residents of Monmouth County. It is interesting to note that compared to the 2010…
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Monmouth County History: Origins of the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area
By Thomas K. Robbins The Robbins Burial Ground in Upper Freehold Township has been discovered again and again over its 300-year existence. Abandoned, overgrown and forgotten describe its current state. Occasionally a news story is published which renews interest in it. A headline in the 1966 Asbury Park Press read “Hunter Finds ‘Lincoln’ Family Grave”…
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Holmdel charter study commission chairman offers update to community
The Holmdel Charter Study Commission held its first public hearing on Feb. 3 on a virtual basis by Zoom. In addition to viewers who watched the live-streamed event on Holmdel’s Facebook page or on YouTube, more than 30 participants logged on to the Zoom event. A significant number of those participants shared their thoughts and…
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New Jersey’s support for organ and tissue donation reaches all-time high
By Joseph S. Roth In 2021, New Jerseyans continued to show their caring spirit like never before as it was another record-breaking year for NJ Sharing Network – saving and enhancing more lives. The number of organ donors in a single year reached an all-time high as 233 generous individuals gave the gift of life,…
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Allentown storekeeper spent decades recording histories of area families
By Thomas K. Robbins On Aug. 15, 1922, (journalist) Ida Tarbell knocks at a door on Main Street in Allentown and is presented with an extraordinary gentleman named Charles Robbins Hutchinson. She describes the feeling of meeting him as “… same kind of feeling I have when looking for china … see a real Windsor…
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Congressman reports progress in helping homeless veterans
By Rep. Chris Smith Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the enactment into law on Dec. 21, 2001 of the Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Assistance Act of 2001, the historic, comprehensive law I authored to create a whole-of-government approach to mitigate and ultimately end veterans homelessness. Twenty years ago, approximately 300,000 veterans on any given…
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Writer continues research on old burial ground in Upper Freehold Township
By Thomas K. Robbins The publication of Ida Tarbell’s “In the Footsteps of the Lincolns” in 1924 generated renewed interest in the Robbins Burial Ground in Upper Freehold Township and in Deborah Lincoln, who was President Abraham Lincoln’s great-grand aunt. This may have been the reason for Dr. Edward McCue Bodine to declare he owned…