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McKeon Answers Questions About Anti-Bullying Law (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Montclair Patch
Feb 07The "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights" created a financial burden on school districts as well as an implementation and enforcement burden that was often poorly executed by school staff — according to attendees at a symposium in Newark today. Assemblyman Jo... »
Patch Tries: Editor Cuts Hair for Locks of Love [VIDEO]
Montclair Patch
Feb 07Hair today, gone tomorrow! West Orange Patch editor Karen Yi cut 10 inches off her long hair over the weekend for Locks of Love, a nonprofit organization that creates hairpieces for children with long-term medical hair loss from donations. Yi, whose ha... »
Going to the Giants Parade? NJ Transit Knows the Way
Montclair Patch
Feb 07NJ Transit will offer extra bus service on 18 routes, increase capacity on select, previously-scheduled trains and add customer service ambassadors at Newark Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal tomorrow to accommodate Giants fans attending tomorrow’s S... »
Giants Parade: New York or New Jersey?
Montclair Patch
Feb 06It's an argument that's been boiling over since 1976–or, at least since the Giants started winning Super Bowls. Where to hold the victory parade? The Canyon of Heroes, as is the traditional place a New York-based sporting team takes its victory lap (th... »
The Gas Report: Average Climbs 4 Cents to $3.39
Manasquan-Belmar Patch
Feb 06Gas prices in the area just keep climbing, and at $3.39 per gallon the area average for regular grade at cash price is 4 cents higher than it was last week. The cheapest gas around will run drivers $3.33 per gallon, but if there's any consolation it ca... »
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Marquee Memories
Flaming Pablum
Jan 29A couple of years back, I wrote a teary-eyed little post about revisiting the site of the long-since-closed early 90's music venue, The Marquee. There's currently a Marquee club over on 10th Avenue between 26th and 27th, but I'm not... »
Open for Biz
Flaming Pablum
Jan 24As I mentioned in my last rapturous post, in a rare moment of wanting to do the right thing, I refrained from posting any pictures from NYU's sprawling Washington Square Area Image Collection. Instead, I dutifully shot them a note,... »
Meat Puppets - "Up On the Sun" CD Review (MVD Audio)
Brooklyn Rocks
Jan 21DOWNLOAD: Meat Puppets - Live @ McCabe's Guitar Show, Santa Monica, CA 5-3-85 (Up on the Sun tour)In 1985, the Meat Puppets released their third full-length, Up On the Sun, and this disc was the turning point for the band’s sound. There is no sign of t... »
Holmdel's DiMaso is GOP's choice for freeholder seat
PolitickerNJ
Jan 14The Monmouth County GOP Committee this morning at Colts Neck High School selected Holmdel Deputy Mayor Serena DiMaso for the vacant freeholder seat.The committee initially looked like it would require a second ballot, but Howell Mayor Bob Walsh concede... »
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More Monmouth Musings
Jan 14Colts Neck- The majority of Monmouth County Republican County Committe members are present at Colts Neck High School for the Title 19 convention to elect Assemblyman Rob Clifton’s replacement on the Board of Freeholders. Chairman Joe Oxley announced th... »