VERONICA YANKOWSKI Teacher Peggy Biano gets crowned by Miss America Ericka Harold during a mock crowning ceremony during her Nov. 5 visit to St. Leo the Great School in Middletown.
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Poricy to offer ‘Holiday Roping’ program Dec. 1
     Poricy Park, Oak Hill Road, Middletown, will hold a "Holiday Roping" workshop Dec. 1 from 1-3 p.m. at its nature center. Cost of the program is $25 for nonmembers and $18 for members.
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     JERRY WOLKOWITZ Bill Keller of South Brunswick looks through a designer mirror that he created at the Jersey Shore Arts Festival, held at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on Saturday.
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Jolly Cackle Farm event raises $20K for VNACJ
     The Visiting Nurse Association of Central (VNACJ), Red Bank, recently raised approximately $20,000 at its 11th annual Afternoon at Jolly Cackle Farm. The event held at the farm of Françoise and Harvey Rambach, Locust section of Middletown, drew more than 100 families.
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     JERRY WOLKOWITZ Barbara and Jessie Guerrier, Middletown, brows through the merchandise at the St. Joseph’s Christmas Craft Show in Keyport on Saturday.
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     JERRY WOLKOWITZ Paul Lober of South Brunswick shows a vase he created to a shopper at the Jersey Shore Arts Festival, held at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on Saturday.
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     JERRY WOLKOWITZ A variety of seasonal decorations were for sale at the St. Joseph’s Christmas Craft Show in Keyport on Saturday.
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Hospital activities
committee offers trips
     The Bayshore Community Hospital activities committee is offering a trip to the outlets at Rehoboth, Del., Nov. 16 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Cost is $18, and a coupon book valued at more than $400 will be given to attendees.
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     JERRY WOLKOWITZ Eve Ehlbeck of Keyport paints the window of her child-care center, located on Front Street, Keyport, on Nov. 8.
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Oldies groups to appear at Brookdale Nov. 23
     Brookdale Community College, Lincroft section of Middletown, will host "A Rock and Roll Reunion" to benefit the Kathe B. Stapleton Memorial Scholarship Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m. Oceanport resident Stapleton passed away last year.
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     CHRIS KELLY Sandy Hook park ranger Tom Hoffman chats with Colts Neck resident Jim Ritter about the days of war on the Hook during a tour of Fort Hancock on Fort Hancock Day Oct. 27.
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     CHRIS KELLY During a tour of Fort Hancock on Oct. 27, Sandy Hook park ranger Tom Hoffman points out what’s left of the Battery Granger portion of Fort Hancock, a structure that remains on the Hook from World War II days.
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Brookdale Community College offers arts activities
     The History Department at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft section of Middletown, will host a free lecture by Eylon Javetz Nov. 14 from 2-3 p.m. Javetz specializes in homeland and multinational security.
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St. Joseph’s presents ‘Annie’ in November
     St. Joseph’s Church, 376 Maple Place, Keyport, will present Annie Nov. 16, 17 and 24 at 7:30 p.m., and Nov. 23 at 2 p.m. Performances will be held in the church auditorium.
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Open space tax again defeated
     HAZLET — They tried again, but township officials still couldn’t get a municipal open space tax passed.
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     JERRY WOLKOWITZ Marty Silverman, of Jackson, creates a piece of artwork from lava rock, using a small chisel and hammer at the Jersey Shore Arts Festival, held at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, on Saturday.
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‘United We Sing’ at meeting house Nov. 24
     The Unitarian Universalist Meeting House choir will present an interfaith service "United We Sing" Nov. 24 at 4 p.m. at its meeting house at 1475 W. Front St., Lincroft section of Middletown.
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     JERRY WOLKOWITZ Work on the highly anticipated Keyport Borough Hall is moving along. The frame, located on West Front Street in Keyport, overlooks the bay.
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     JERRY WOLKOWITZ Peter Blanchett plays an “Archguitar,” a guitar with 11-strings, at the Jersey Shore Arts Festival, held at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on Saturday, Nov. 9.
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Great Adventure offers new holiday light show
     Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson, will expand its season with a new drive-through holiday light show. "Winter Lights — Drive-Thru Adventure" will debut Nov. 15 and operate nightly through New Year’s Day.
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Mid’town library capital
campaign under way
     The Middletown Township Public Library has announced Middletown residents Judith Stanley Coleman and her husband James "Chip" Coleman have agreed to chair the library’s capital campaign to raise $1.
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Library offers ‘Let’s Go to Italy’ for free Nov. 21
     Middletown Public Library, 55 New Monmouth Road, will present "Let’s Go to Italy" Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. The free program and slide presentation will be given by Peter J. Koelsch.
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Church collecting items for troops now abroad
     The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in conjunction with the Jersey Coast Chapter of the American Red Cross, Tinton Falls, is seeking "quality of life" items for United States troops stationed in Afghanistan.
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Rape care advocates sought by center
     180, Turning Lives Around, Hazlet, is seeking volunteers to assist survivors of sexual abuse by becoming rape care advocates and members of the Monmouth County sexual assault response team.
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Santa Claus arrives
in Keyport Nov. 30
     The Keyport Business Alliance (KBA) will launch the holiday season Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. with the arrival of Santa Claus and the lighting of the borough’s holiday tree.
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Annual tree lighting at Bayshore hospital Dec. 5
     The Bayshore Community Hospital Auxiliary, Holmdel, will host its tree-lighting ceremony in conjunction with its holiday light display "Lights of Love" Dec. 5.
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Audition deadline for provocative play Nov. 15
     Phoenix Productions, Lincroft section of Middletown, will hold auditions for its production of Sniper, a play about a seemingly "upright" teenage boy who takes a rifle to a rooftop and randomly kills in the community.
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Oldies groups to appear at Brookdale Nov. 23
     Brookdale Community College, Lincroft section of Middletown, will host "A Rock and Roll Reunion" to benefit the Kathe B. Stapleton Memorial Scholarship Nov.
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