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Bulletin Board January 9, 2003
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Soldier’s WWII experiences focus of author’s first novel
Jackson’s Jack Sharkey
spent five years writing
and editing manuscript
By Joyce Blay
Staff Writer
     JACKSON — John Lennon sang about becoming a paperback writer, and now Jack Sharkey has become one.
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Churches expected to close on deal for local FM station
By kathy baratta
Staff Writer
     HOWELL — Radio station WPDQ-FM is in the process of changing hands and will ultimately change its format.
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Plans for
expansion
uncertain

By Joyce Blay
Staff Writer
     JACKSON — Members of the Planning Board have memorialized their earlier decision to approve an expansion of the Jackson Outlet Village by current owner New Plan Excel Realty Trust Inc.
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Human resources dept. OK’d
by Jackson municipal officials
Staff Writer
     JACKSON — The Township Commit-tee has adopted an ordinance that creates a department of human resources in the municipality. The action came at the committee’s Dec. 23 meeting.
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Builder faces
summons for
cutting trees

By kathy baratta
Staff Writer
     HOWELL — Municipal Land Use Officer Vito Marinaccio has been directed by the Township Council to issue a summons to a builder for violating the town’s farmland buffer ordinance.
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U.S. judge rules board may
conduct regular business

Decision allows FRHSD
to begin implementing
2003 redistricting plan
By dave benjamin
Staff Writer
     It’s back to business as usual for the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education. U.S. District Court Judge Garrett E. Brown, sitting in Trenton, lifted a temporary restraining order on Dec.
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Christ Church set to proceed
with plans for Oak Glen Road

Donation of property
is debt paid from WWII
     HOWELL — When Lenny was scared and hiding from the Nazis in a forest in Poland, it was the help of Polish Catholics that kept the young Jewish boy alive.
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Committee elects Kafton
Jackson mayor for 2003
By Joyce Blay
Staff Writer
     JACKSON — Michael J. Kafton was unanimously elected mayor and Sean G. Giblin was unanimously elected deputy mayor for 2003 during the 159th annual reorganization meeting of the Township Committee held Jan. 1 at the municipal building.
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Public safety
post awaits
candidate’s
response

By Joyce Blay
Staff Writer
     LAKEWOOD — Township Commit-teeman Ray Coles has confirmed that the position of public safety director has been offered to a finalist in the Philadelphia-New York City-Baltimore area and said the governing body expects to announce a person to fill the new position sometime in January.
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Painter strives to blend art, social commentary
Princeton exhibit spans a decade of Millstone Township
artist’s work
By alison granito
Staff Writer
     Millstone Township painter Eileen Kennedy-Dyne is nothing if not ambitious in her art.
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Horse Park of N.J.
lands national event
By jane meggitt
Staff Writer
     Elaine Landy began riding horses as an adult, and she soon became "hooked on dressage." Eight years ago, Landy, of Millstone Township, started learning about dressage in order to improve her basic riding skills.
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Registration under way
for youth lacrosse

     Howell Recreation is currently forming a Youth Lacrosse Program for children in grades three through eight to run from mid- to late-February through the third week in May.
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Culinary Workshop held
at Jackson ShopRite

     Jackson ShopRite is initiating a new Culinary Workshop. Classes will begin on Jan. 16 and continue throughout the year.
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