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Jewish Heritage Museum to open in Freehold Twp.
BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer

      The corner of West Main Street (Route 537) and Wemrock Road in Freehold Township has changed a great deal since the 1800s when the Levi Solomon farmhouse and barn sat close to the road.
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Women go wild in the Assunpink
National Wild Turkey Federation gets ladies enjoying the outdoors
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer

      Women exchanged their traditional roles as mothers, daughters and wives for a chance to be shotgunshooting, wild-game-cooking outdoor adventurers. The New Jersey chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) hosted a group of eight women from across the state and as far away as Pennsylvania during its "Women in the Outdoors" event Aug.
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Board may ask voters for another $3M
High school project was initially approved at $47M in 2005
BY MICHAEL ACKER Correspondent

      T he Sayreville school district is facing its most significant dilemma yet: cost overruns and delays of the high school construction project.
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Study projects $1.5 million savings by sharing police
Regionalization projected to save $11.5M by 2017
BY JENNA O'DONNELL Staff Writer

      Consultants project that as much as $1.5 million can be saved through sharing the Fair Haven, Little Silver and Rumson police departments, with even greater savings down the road.
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Classic comedy
      Eric Rolland (r), portraying Felix Ungar, and Jonathan Wierzbicki, playing the role of Speed, perform Neil Simon's classic comedy "The Odd Couple," about two mismatched bachelors, at the Strand Theater, Lakewood, on Aug. 15. The Strand Theater Ensemble presented the play, which made its Broadway debut in 1965 and later became a popular television situation comedy.
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North Brunswick mourns the loss of Lt. Christopher Zerby
Fifteen-year veteran recalled as great family man, policeman
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer

      Renee McCaffrey said that if her brother-in-law, North Brunswick police Lt. Christopher Zerby, had a premonition that he would pass away one week before he actually did, he would have wanted to take his sons, Tyler and Trevor, to Point Pleasant, he would have wanted to attend a family party, he would have wanted to eat clams with friends,
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Builder brings green ethos to retail plans
Monroe board OKs 60,000-sq.-foot plaza on Applegarth Road
BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer

      T odd Ochsner is not the type of developer to pave paradise and put up a parking lot. The Village at Millstone River, a project of Ochsner's that received preliminary approval from the Monroe Township Zoning Board of Adjustment July 29, is slated to be no exception.
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A fitting farewell to a 4-year-old girl
Hundreds turn out to say goodbye to Avery Lubrecht
BY DANIELLE MEDINA Correspondent

      Avery Judith Lubrecht's smile could light up a room. The little girl whose brave fight with brain cancer inspired many in Brick Township was remembered by more than 700 people who turned out to celebrate her brief, but beautiful life.
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Summer performance
      ERIC SUCAR staff Saxophonist Darwin Benjamin, 12, looks out at friends and family members in the audience prior to a performance by students who were enrolled in the Freehold Township School District's summer band program. The youngsters performed Aug. 1 at Freehold Township High School.
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Fishing tourney success no mere fluke
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer

      One hundred sixty-eight men and women dispersed on the early morning of Aug. 9 to compete in the 11th annual Leave Your Wife at Home Fluke Tournament in Sewaren. "We did have some women participate in the tournament, despite the name," smiled Ray Deliman II, who hosts the tournament in his backyard.
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Summer camps at Middlesex County College
      Top left: A puppeteer class was held at Middlesex County College, Edison, where children designed and crafted their own puppets through the summer camp program. Chloe Foga, 7, of Highland Park, and Anushka Murti, 8, of East Brunswick, research for their show "The Dragon Plot." Above: Matthew Taffet, 9, of East Brunswick, colors in the hand of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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Soon-to-be centenarian: Where does the time go?
For lifelong Aberdeen resident, there's no place like home
BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer

      She may have lived through two world wars, the Great Depression and a recent invention known as the Internet, but if it isn't a lawn mower, Alice Grace Schanck McGuire doesn't want to know about it. McGuire will turn 100 years old on Sept.
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Mujeres dominicanas son homenajeadas en NY
Exposición fotográfica en la CUNY del 19 de ago. al 30 de sep.

      Empezando el 19 de agosto y hasta el 30 de septiembre de este año, la compañía dominicana de alimentos MercaSID y su marca Aceite Crisol lanzarán el proyecto "Mujer Dominicana en Nueva York," una exposición fotográfica que enfatiza las vidas y logros de mujeres dominicanas a través de la diáspora.
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