Author to discuss book
on strife in N. Ireland
     Patrick Michael Rucker, author of This Troubled Land: Voices From Northern Ireland on the Front Lines of Peace, will give a talk at Monmouth County Library Headquarters, Manalapan, at 7 p.m. July 11. Rucker moved to Belfast in 1998 in order to write the book in which he speaks with victims, assassin...
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Fall trip scheduled
     The Christian Neighbors of Covered Bridge, Manalapan, will sponsor a trip to Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire Sept. 23-27. The tour will include two nights in Vermont and two in New Hamp-shire, an evening of entertainment, four breakfasts, four dinners, and visits to the Maple Museum; the Calvin Coo...
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Marlboro resident on state panel
     The New Jersey Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission held its organization meeting at the State House in Trenton recently.
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     JERRY WOLKOWITZ Kim Cattrall, one of the stars of the HBO series Sex and the City, takes a break before filming a scene on Monday at Jake’s Cree-Mee Freeze, Route 33, Millstone Township. A location scout found the roadside eatery appealing and decided the setting could pass for a Long Island hambur...
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Getting a taste of Millstone
     A makeup artist applies a finishing touch to actress Cynthia Nixon prior to the filming of a scene from an upcoming episode of HBO’s Sex and the City on Monday at Jake’s Cree-Mee Freeze ice cream stand on Route 33, Millstone Township. Series stars Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker were fe...
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Authors sought for
statewide competition
     The Unlimited Potential Theater Company, a project of VSA arts of New Jersey, is seeking poems, essays and plays by New Jersey residents, 18 years of age or older, for its ninth annual New Jersey Wordsmiths Competition. The contest is open to all writers, and submissions by writers with disabilities...
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Law limiting telemarketers
now before state Senate
     The state Assembly has passed legislation sponsored by Assembly Assistant Majority Leader Linda Greenstein (D-14) and Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew (D-1) designed to crack down on the barrage of telemarketing calls to residents’ homes.
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