FARRAH MAFFAI Lona Mandel keeps active and cool in the pool during an Aug. 9 aqua aerobics class at the Marlboro Swim Club.
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Nominations now being accepted for Garvin prize
     The New Jersey Historical Commission is accepting nominations until Nov. 1 for its 2002 Mildred Barry Garvin Prize. The $1,000 prize is an award given for outstanding efforts in making students aware of and interested in African-American history. Teachers, counselors and school librarians who have h...
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County park system
plans Berkshires trip
     The Monmouth County Park System has scheduled a trip to "The Berkshires and The Boston Pops," from Aug. 19-21. The trip will leave from Lincroft.
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     FARRAH MAFFAI Payton Mahoney, 1, and her dad, Michael, found a way to keep cool and enjoy the pool at the Marlboro Swim Club on Aug. 9.
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Statue awaiting move to new pocket park on Main Street
County hopes to have
work done in time for
battle’s 225th anniversary
Staff Writer
By dick metzgar
     FREEHOLD — The original "Columbia Triumphant" or "Liberty Triumphant" is getting ever closer to its new home in a park on East Main Street next to the Monmouth County Hall of Records Annex.
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Sprint triathlon will
be held in Long Branch
     On Sept. 9 the Monmouth County Park System will sponsor its annual Sprint Triathlon at Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park, Long Branch. The event will begin at 7:45 a.m. The Sprint Triathlon consists of a quarter-mile ocean swim, a 13-mile bike ride and a 4-mile run. The oceanfront course passes throu...
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Shalom Torah Center gains
Planning Board approval
Staff Writer
By theresa a. boschen
     MARLBORO — Unanimous preliminary and final site plan approval has been granted by the Planning Board to the Shalom Torah Center for the construction of a school on Amboy Road.
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