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Navesink Garden Club receives Petals grant
     The Navesink Garden Club, Red Bank, celebrating its 55th anniversary this year, has announced it recently received a grant from Protect the Environment Through Action, Learning and Service (Petals).
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Changing times benefit York Telecom
Staff Writer
By SHERRY CONOHAN
     EATONTOWN — Fueled by a slowing economy and the fear of flying, business at York Telecom Corp., a provider of teleconferencing systems, has taken off and the company expects it to grow by nearly half in 2002.
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Monmouth County’s culinary school sizzles
Staff Writer
By linda denicola
     There is always something cooking at the Culinary Education Center of Monmouth County on Drury Lane in Asbury Park. And it’s not just food. The experienced instructors are also cooking up a combination of skills that will allow their students to enter the hospitality industry as professionals in the...
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For the love of words and Ireland
Business born of owner’s interest in the work and land of her ancestors
Staff Writer
By john burton
     Being Irish is more than watching a production of Riverdance or reading Frank McCourt’s best-selling memoir Angela’s Ashes.
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Business Briefs
Fair Haven Realtor adds licensed assistant
     Re/Max Paradigm Realty Group, Fair Haven, has announced Michelle Walker has joined the firm as a licensed assistant and team member.
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~ Notes Around Town ~
     As of March 15, pay phones located at Blackberry Bay Park and borough hall in Oceanport will be removed. The phones, owned by Verizon, are not generating a profit or even covering costs. The borough does have an option to keep the phones at a cost of $65 per month per phone. Not finding that as a su...
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     If your child is experiencing physical, sensory, emotional, communication, cognitive or social difficulties, the Oceanport Child Study Team may be able to help. The guidance team is offered to Oceanport and Sea Bright parents to identify developmental disabilities of preschool children attaining age...
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Learning the lessons to be taught by the land
Staff Writer
By gloria stravelli
     A lone, bald eagle gliding in graceful flight above the Navesink River dipped his wings this weekend as if to acknowledge the small group assembled on the riverbank.
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Oceanport’s new emergency
dispatch network operational
Staff Writer
By carolyn o’connell
     OCEANPORT — Now that the borough’s new emergency equipment is up and running, officials will be conducting a 30-day survey to test its overall effectiveness.
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Edifice Rex: Kamin at top of his field
Staff Writer
By gloria stravelli
     The willingness to challenge, inform and nurture public views about architecture were there from the outset. But not everyone got Blair Kamin’s style of activist criticism at first.
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