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Bill Rybeck's Explorations of Jersey City's Old Industrial Spaces
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- Category: Arts & Culture
RED BANK, NJ - Bill Rybak will exhibit his work in the windows of the Art Alliance during the month of June. Rybak’s images come from a day spent exploring one of Jersey City’s brooding old industrial spaces and the play of the late afternoon light through its dust covered and filtered windows. After ten years working in Jersey City he moved his studio to the Hudson Valley town of Lloyd, NY, where he currently resides.
Getting Ready for Summer Camp
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- Category: Letters to the Editor
Summer vacation is just around the corner and for thousands of New Jersey families that means getting their children ready for a welcomed tradition after a grueling year: summer camp in the great outdoors.
Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore and camp operators across the Garden State are busy preparing for a safe and exciting summer for children as coronavirus restrictions are lifting and vaccinations are progressing, bringing us closer to the life we lived before the pandemic hit.
How Do You Change the World?
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- Category: The Armchair Critic
In June, 2018, when discussing the border crisis, Joe Biden said, “This is not who we are. America is better than this,” a mantra he has repeated, with good reason, many times since. Though Biden’s sentiment is inspiring, events in America’s recent past, I believed, consistently proved Biden wrong. Contrary to his statement, this is exactly who we are: a divided nation, an intolerant people with little empathy for those who differ in any way from ourselves. The world has to change, but how? In our present agitated state, we must keep our eyes wide open if we are to recognize even a sliver of hope when it pops up where we least expect it - like in a stranger’s Facebook post, of all places!
If you, like me, harbor doubts about America’s future and wonder just who we, as a nation, truly are, let the following Facebook post from a woman named Jessie set you straight. I do not know Jessie personally, but the story she related on Facebook motivated me to request her permission to share her words. She and her husband graciously agreed. For a much-needed, instant renewal of hope and good will, and a lesson in how to change the world, read on.
Brookdale Community Celebrates Commencement
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LINCROFT, NJ - For the second year in a row, Brookdale Community College celebrated the success of its graduates with drive-thru commencement ceremonies on May 13 and 14.
“Commencement 2021 was one for the record books,” said Yesenia Madas, associate vice president of student affairs at Brookdale. “We had hundreds of students, their families, and even their pets attend one of two drive through processions,” she said.
Iris at the Library
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Manalapan – Rutgers Master Gardener Jane Zysk will present a program I “Irresistible Irises” in a virtual presentation offered by the Monmouth County Library.
The program will be presented June 3 at 3 p.m. and will be presented on Cisco Webex free of charge.
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