TheTOMS RIVER Times Vol. 18 - No. 42
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By Mark Bator TOMS RIVER - In today’s modern world, the majority of the population spends a great deal of time looking at a computer screen, a television, and of course, their phones. But for a small group of indi-
viduals in the Ocean County area, looking up into the night sky is a burning passion. The origins of astronomy date back thousands of years, with conventional wisdom citing its genesis in ancient Mesopotamia.
Teen’s Suicide Sparks Other Districts To Look Closer At Bullying By Stephanie Faughnan OCEAN COUNTY – The tragedy hit entirely too close to home – at most, a few exits away on the Garden State Parkway. Adriana Kuch took
her own life earlier this month. The fourteen-year-old Central Regional High School freshman’s suicide has ignited every family’s worst fear. Bullying can be deadly – whether it involves
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physical contact or not. In a national news interview last week, Michael Kuch related his final conversation with his daughter. Adriana was upset that her attackers took (Bullying - See Page 5)
Early beliefs held that the heavens revolved around the Earth, and it would not be until hundreds of years later that a Greek astronomer, Hipparchus of Nicaea, was credited with compiling the first stellar catalogue that
listed over 800 stars. But today’s moder n telescopes now peer far into the known universe, looking not only past our solar system, but even our Milky Way Galaxy to others (Astrology - See Page 4)
─Photo courtesy Jim Webster/ ASTRA The club star parties are held as state parks, and are well attended.
Several Shopping Centers Purchased By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – Holiday City is usually thought of as acres of senior housing, but the company that built them also built several strip malls for the residents to shop at. They were sold in a large transaction recently.
“Holiday City has changed hands,” Berkeley Councilwoman Sophia Gingrich notified the public at a recent Tow n s h i p C o u n c i l meeting. A resident of a senior community herself, she mentioned that
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