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RED BANK, NJ - Red Bank Parks & Rec is co-sponsoring a co-ed an adult volleyball league set to begin 2/21/12. Games will be played at Red Bank Middle School on Tuesday nights.  You can sign up a team or as an individual. The league is open to Red Bank residents and non-residents 21 and older.  All ability levels are welcome as the emphasis is on having fun and meeting new people. The deadline to register is 2/14/12.  For more information on how to register as an individual or full team, please contact league organizer, Scott Cannon, at 908-461-8946 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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MONMOUTH BEACH, NJ - Tyrrell (Peggy) Masse, an artist and entrepreneur who has lived and worked in Monmouth Beach for 14 years, is showing her abstract paintings in the town’s micro-roastery, Booskerdoo. The show will run from Friday, January 27th to Thursday, March 8th. 

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Ms. Masse’s business ventures, many art related, have included “Art Show and Sell” developed to place artists’ work in different locations; “Move n Art,” a collection of art pieces which run on flat screens; Artventures, a group of women artists who often show their work at the Oyster Point Hotel in Red Bank; and the Shore Women Networking group, a group of about 30 business women who support each other with referrals and business pointers. Peggy was also a founder of the Shore Women Abstract Gallery, which operated for a year in Asbury Park.

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RED BANK, NJ --The Tower Hill Concert Series presents soprano Sherezade Panthaki in concert Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary of the First Presbyterian Church at Red Bank (Tower Hill), 255 Harding Road. She is known internationally for performing beloved 17th and 18th century works, such as Handel’s Messiah, in a new and exciting way. 

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Sherezade Panthaki

Panthaki is in demand as an opera and oratorio soloist, with a wide repertoire that includes Bach, Handel, Mozart, Purcell, Vivaldi and other composers of the Baroque period. Accompanying her in this recital are early-music musicians from Yale University playing harpsichord, organ, lute and theorbo (a small baroque guitar).

Born and raised in India, Ms. Panthaki received a bachelor’s degree from West Virginia Wesleyan College, and a Master’s Degree in vocal performance from the University of Illinois. She holds the 2011 Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music—a program that accepts one soprano per year. In 2011 she was invited to join the staff of the Yale Baroque Opera Project, where she works as principal vocal coach for undergraduate singers at Yale University.

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UNION BEACH, NJ - New Jersey American Water plans exciting movie premiere to honor Union Beach resident, and star of video, Jillian Johnson

New Jersey American Water, along with the Borough of Union Beach, will hold a “movie premiere” honoring Union Beach resident Jillian Johnson, 11,  who stars in New Jersey American Water’s new “Splash” educational video

Last summer, Jillian, a student at Memorial Elementary School, won a New Jersey American Water art contest for her depiction of how families can conserve water.  The video shows Jillian interacting with “Splash,” an animated water droplet, while demonstrating simple ways to save water in the home.

The premiere will feature an appearance by Jillian and her family complete with red carpet, velvet ropes, spotlights and free popcorn.  

Thursday, January 19, 2012 at  8:00 p.m.
Union Beach Municipal Building 
650 Poole Ave., Union Beach, NJ

New Jersey American Water will honor Jillian Johnson, winner of New Jersey American Water’s summer art contest which centered on water conservation in the home.  Jillian’s entry illustrated how rain water could be collected to reuse for outdoor vegetation.   

A copy of the winning art piece can be found on New Jersey American Water’s Facebook site at www.facebook.com/njamwater. 

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MIDDLETOWN, NJ - On January 12, 2012 at approximately 10:00pm Middletown police responded to an armed robbery at the Quick Stop Convenience Store located at 58 Leonard Avenue in the Leonardo section of Middletown. Police say a male subject approximately 6’00 tall, 175 pounds, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, a black mask and blue surgical gloves entered the store and approached the cashier.

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The suspect pulled a knife out of his clothing and demanded money.

The cashier handed over money, totalling $1200-$1400, from the drawer and lottery, according to store employee Mohinder Kumar.  The cashier was told to move to the back of the store while the suspect then fled the store.  He was seen, by an arriving customer, running towards Kunkel Park and the Henry Hudson Trail.  

Police request anyone with information contact the Middletown Police Department at (732) 615-2100 or Detective Laurence Schachtel at (732) 615-2062.

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