Agency gives tips to avoid underage drinking
      Did you know that more young people try alcohol for the first time during June and July than at any other time of the year? Keeping teens occupied and supervised helps to ensure they have a safe summer. By involving teens in a variety of alcohol-free activities - such as sports, summer camps, and outdoor recreational activities - you can help prevent underage drinking.
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Facts about oil crisis are deceitful spin
      Iread the opinion by Cindy Zipf of Clean Ocean Action, and her facts just don't line up. What this organization claims to be factual is simply opinion. They offer no proof that the U.S. is exporting a half billion barrels of crude overseas.
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Homeowner sounds off against Schneider's radio talk
      Ijust listened to the Sunday morning talk show that had Mayor Adam Schneider of Long Branch on. I tuned in when he was talking about the "disingenuous" homeowners. I am appalled that a mayor could go on live radio and say so many incorrect statements and there was no one from the MTOTSA neighborhood to get their side of the story heard by the public!
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Columnists not qualified to opine on religious leaders
      You have been running a series of exchanges between your executive editor and his friend, Dave Simpson, whom you describe as a seasoned newsman. I consider their exchanges as sleaze with the purpose of defaming Sen. Obama through guilt by association. Even in that I consider them wrong because their attacks on the Rev. Wright are wrong.
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