Drop the wine cooler, Grandma, or go to jail
GREG BEAN Coda
      In the end, it looks like stupidity won over common sense at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. Since July, almost 500 of the dumbest people on the East Coast have managed to get themselves arrested for underage drinking and various other liquor-related offenses at the venue, and dozens have been treated at local hospitals for illnesses caused by excessive boozing.
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New rules, but same results at arts center
      Week one at the new rules PNC Bank Arts Center brought us a disturbing surprise, courtesy of the same people responsible for the ban on alcohol in the Holmdel venue's parking lot.
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School, municipal budgets out of control in East Brunswick
MARY A. TONACHIO Guest Column
      Iwas somewhat shocked when I received my tax bill for August. How are people like young families and the senior citizens of this town on fixed incomes going to be able to keep their homes?
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