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On the Navesink River in Rumson, Monmouth County, boats rest at anchor near an estate. (Peter Ackerman / Asbury Park Press)
RUMSON, N.J. - When they convene here six months from now for the first Dad Vail Regatta outside Philadelphia in more than half a century, thousands of collegiate rowers on the Navesink River will race past the Salt Creek Grille and take in a view of the splendid Oceanic Bridge and riverfront homes.
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It would make for a nice story: Middle linebacker gets another shot at starting position and gets to do so in front of family and friends in his hometown.
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Visitors stepping into Mike Jerrick's world on West Washington Square are apt to be dazzled. Jerrick's sleek, contemporary apartment, with its wall of living room windows, has built-in drama thanks to a jaw-dropping cityscape.
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Dueling sides in the bitterly contested Delaware River deepening project took aim yesterday. Environmental groups filed two lawsuits seeking to block deepening a 102.5-mile stretch of the river by five additional feet.
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The aim of medicine is, above all else, to do no harm. But one must wonder if that will be the case with a new medical recommendation on the detection of breast cancer.
Common sense tells women that while mammography is an imperfect, inadequate defense against a disease that will kill 40,000 of them this year, it is better than nothing.
John "Jordan" Lewis, the baby-faced North Philadelphia man whose string of six armed robberies ended with the Halloween 2007 slaying of Police Officer Chuck Cassidy, was found guilty of first-degree murder yesterday by a Philadelphia jury.
RUMSON, N.J. - When they convene here six months from now for the first Dad Vail Regatta outside Philadelphia in more than half a century, thousands of collegiate rowers on the Navesink River will race past the Salt Creek Grille and take in a view of the splendid Oceanic Bridge and riverfront homes.
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Mark Soifer, who's worked to put Ocean City on the map for almost four decades, remembers his early years in town when the Shore closed down after Labor Day and the entire tourist industry started thinking about the next Memorial Day.
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