New Jersey Girl Scouts Get Outdoors & Celebrate 1st Nationwide ‘Love State Parks’ Weekend
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PHOTO: Troop 40234 from Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey take in the view of Sandy Hook Bay from Twin Lights Historic Site in Highlands. The site was one of 34 state parks that participated in Girl Scouts Love State Parks weekend, July 13-14.
FARMINGDALE, NJ - Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore joined thousands of Girls Scouts across New Jersey and the United States this weekend exploring the great outdoors as part of the first ever nationwide ‘Girl Scouts Love State Parks’ initiative.
CBA Announces Farewell to Marty Kenney as Head Baseball Coach
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PHOTO: Coach Marty Kenney
The 1966 CBA alumnus won over 800 games with the Colts since 1974.
LINCROFT, N.J. – July 16, 2019 – There has been one constant with Christian Brothers Academy Baseball since April 3, 1974: head coach Marty Kenney.
After 46 years, the 1966 CBA alumnus has concluded of one of the most successful coaching careers in New Jersey high school athletics.
NY/NJ Baykeeper Deploys 1 Million Oysters to Expand Living Shoreline in Raritan Bay
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PHOTO: NY/NJ Baykeeper's Restoration team loaded oyster castles onto the Baykeeper skiff and were transported to their Living Shoreline at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Raritan Bay.
MATAWAN, NJ - As part of its mission to restore the oyster population in Raritan Bay, NY/NJ Baykeeper conducted an oyster castle (concrete oyster “homes”) deployment and installation on Tuesday, July 16th.
Approximately 1 million juvenile oysters were transported from Leonardo State Marina aboard the Baykeeper patrol boat and taken to the Living Shoreline at Naval Weapons Station Earle (NWSE), where the fledgling oysters were introduced by NY/NJ Baykeeper’s team of scientists.
Did DOD Weaponize Lyme Disease in Ticks?
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Congressman Chris Smith Amendment Directs IG to Investigate Possible Involvement of Biowarfare Labs
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The full House of Representatives passed an amendment offered by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) which directs the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Defense to investigate the “possible involvement of DOD biowarfare labs in the weaponization of Lyme disease in ticks and other insects” from 1950-1975.
According to Smith, he was “inspired to write the amendment”—now part of the House-passed 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)—by “a number of books and articles suggesting that significant research had been done at U.S. government facilities including Fort Detrick, Maryland and Plum Island, New York to turn ticks and other insects into bioweapons.”
This Hardware Store Has Everything
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Only in Atlantic Highlands can you get excited over a Hardware Store. But you can’t help it! With brothers Chuck and Andy Hull owners of what they still call Jaspan Brothers South Hardware …they were the last owners from 1983 until the Hulls bought it to 2003… and a team of employees who not only know where just about everything is in the store but apparently, judging from their great personalities and smiling faces love their jobs, it’s bound to be a winner.
