Hometown View

A busy off-season is about to become even busier for Toms River’s Todd Frazier, who had a banner rookie season for the Cincinnati Reds. 

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Random notes on my daughter Alexandra’s 21st birthday and the first she was not home to share with us. 

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We’ve had Back Friday and Small Business Saturday and today is Cyber Monday.   I’m sure many of you have participated in some form to one of these as the holiday shopping season is here but may I suggest more than ever you “Shop the Shore.” 

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For me Thanksgiving is without question the best holiday of the year because it’s pure. 

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If you are not a college sports fan it’s likely you’ll have little or no reaction to the news that Rutgers University is about to depart the Big East Conference and become the newest member of the Big Ten Conference which will actually have 14 schools but will still be called the Big Ten because Big Fourteen doesn’t sound right.

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Nice weather, a win by the home team and bringing my daughter home for Thanksgiving.  That pretty much sums up my annual football weekend at Penn State where the Nittany Lions routed Indiana to clinch a winning season, something few experts predicted back in September. 

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Like just about everything else the high school football season was interrupted by Hurricane Sandy and is trying to get back to normal, whatever that means. 

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Thanksgiving is a week from tomorrow and it will probably take on a new meaning in the wake of recent developments. 

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A little of this and a little of that.

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It was two weeks today that Superstorm Sandy hit the Jersey Shore as part of her destructive path which has directly impacted the lives of so many while indirectly effecting just about everyone who calls Ocean and Monmouth County home.

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