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Summer
Down the Shore: County Fair, Haskell Invitational Top Weekend Events
Heading down the Shore? Check out this weekend's best bets: EVENTS The Monmouth County Fair continues this weekend at the East Freehold Showgrounds in Freehold Township. Rides, ...
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Summer
Festival of Ballooning Lifts Off This Weekend
A fleet of hot air balloons will overtake the sky this weekend as the Quick Check Festival of Ballooning celebrates its 30th year. But the festival, held Friday-Sunday, July 27-29, a...
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Patch's House & Home
Rutgers Offers Seafood Cooking Classes, Tastings in Westfield
College was not this fun — or tasty — back when I was slogging my way toward a Liberal Arts degree a few years back. Instead of translating Middle English, parsing the writing...
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Sports
Olympic Fun Day Is Saturday July 28
There’s something about watching Olympic athletes that makes you want to get off the couch and go break a world record. Well, maybe not a world record. But at least run around outsid...
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Summer
Reptiles Visit Trailside Center on July 25
From the Communication Director of the County of Union: MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ – The popular Wednesday Matinee Series at Trailside Nature & Science Center in Mountainside continues o...
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Summer
Down the Shore: Jazz & Blues, Boston to Rock AC, Ice Cream Fest
Heading down the Shore? Check out this weekend's best bets: EVENTS New Jersey bluesman Billy Hector will headline the Point Pleasant Jazz and Blues Festival Saturday at R...
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Patch's House & Home
Recipes: Happy National Daiquiri Day!
Need an excuse to celebrate in the midst of this week's heat wave? July 19 is National Daiquiri Day. Although the drink was invented in 1898 in the tiny iron mining town of Daiquir...
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Summer
'The Dark Knight' Trilogy Rises at AMC Loews in Mountainside
It's no secret that the third and final Batman movie from director Christopher Nolan hits theaters at 12:01 a.m. this Friday. But fans of The Dark Knighttrilogy can relive the first and s...