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      June 17, 2010  RSS feed
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      Skipper Denis Farley (left boat) and skippers Bernard and Andree Friel (right boat) race on the Navesink during the Summer Series opening race at the Monmouth Boat Club in Red Bank on Sunday, June 13. More...
      Planners deny conversion of age-restricted housing
      Board cites impact on schools from Rose Glen application
      BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer

      After months of lengthy testimony, the Tinton Falls Planning Board has ruled against an application that would convert an approved age-restricted development to non-age-restricted housing. More...

      Baseball for the visually impaired comes to N.J.
      Game uses cues including beeping ball, vibrating bases
      BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer

      At this time last year, Sherlock Washington and Ohmny Romero had to spend their weekends flying from their homes in New Jersey to California to find a baseball league to play in. This year the two visually impaired athletes will benefit from home cooking, because they are members of the inaugural New Jersey Lightning team, part of the National Beep Baseball Association. More...


      Special kids get their best beach day ever
      Sea Bright-based chapter sponsors camp program
      BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer

      LONG BRANCH — For the third straight year, a California-based nonprofit held a free water-sport event to give some special children their “Best Day at the Beach” in Long Branch. The event went off June 5 and 6 at Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park sponsored by the New Jersey Chapter of the Best Day Foundation. More...


       Bulletin Board
      • Walk, sip, nosh during Red Bank Wine Walks
      RED BANK — Red Bank RiverCenter is introducing the Red Bank Wine Walk, a recurring summer event that will take place 4-7 p.m. on the second and fourth Sundays of the month, June through August. More...
      • R.B. Council to hold special budget meeting
      • R.B. Elks hosting Batter Up Contest
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       Editorials
      • U.S. needs national policy for energy
      GUEST COLUMN  George Moffatt
      We constantly hear “It can’t happen here,” as overconfident engineers and officials assure us that hightech systems will save us from ourselves. More...
      • article has image Cartoon
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       Obituaries
      • Florence Mary Gilmour
      Mrs. Gilmour of Alderbrook, Little Silver, died May 27, 2010, at home. She was the first vestrywoman at Trinity Church in Red Bank and served on the Altar Guild at St. Georges by the River Episcopal Church, Rumson. Mrs. Gilmour later worked in the library at Forrestdale School and at the Talbots store in Little Silver. Mrs. Gilmour was predeceased by her husband, Dr. Thomas J. More...
      • Eugene J. Celebuski
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       Sports
      • article has image Lancers’ ‘special season’ brings state championship
      SJV beats Paramus Catholic in final
      Kim Lombardi felt so strongly about her St. John Vianney High School softball team this spring that she deemed anything but a state title a failure. “I had a feeling we’d have a special season,” she said. More...
      • Sheehan Classic is Saturday in Red Bank
      • article has image BCC’s Menna and Archer tabbed as All-Americans
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       Letters
      • Resident still waiting for National Park Service’s details on fees
      More than four months have passed since I first contacted the National Park Service (NPS), specifically Gen. Supt. Barry Sullivan of Gateway National Recreation Area, concerning the Fort Hancock Chapel, theater and 26 Hudson Street buildings. I had asked for specific information concerning the total amount of rent fees and area fees collected by the U.S. More...
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       Arts / Zest
      • article has image ArtVentures at the Oyster Point
      Stop by the Oyster Point Hotel’s Oyster Lounge, at 146 Bodman Place, Red Bank, any Thursday evening during June from 6-8 p.m. and meet ArtVentures artist Edy Ottesen, who will be there to greet you and show you around art on exhibit, which includes several of her paintings. More...
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       Schools
      • Boro students encouraged to ‘reach for the stars’
      Middle-schoolers participate in Latino youth conference
      RED BANK — As the end of the academic year approaches, most seventh-and eighth-graders are thinking about their transition to high school. But at Red Bank Middle School, the focus is on college and careers. More...
      • article has image Students recognized for work to banish the ‘R’ word
      • on campus •••
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