News Updates as of 19 August 2009

• According to the Restonian, Lou Ann Behan, an attorney in Reston, Virginia who is originally from Cliffwood Beach, has written a musical called "Over the Boardwalk" that premiered at the Belmar Summer Theatre last week. The story appears in APP, which also has six photos from the performance.
• Allentown is annoyed that its extraordinary state aid is so utterly ordinary, according to Central Jersey.com. They applied for $150k and only got $30k, much lower than Matawan's paultry $105,000. For more on that, see my blog article from 9 August.
• Matawan Regional High School graduate Erison Hurtault is running for Dominica in the 12th World Championships of Track and Field in Berlin, according to NewsTin, which links to an APP story. (APP had already archived this story, so I was unable to view it via Google, but I was able to see it via NewsTin for some reason.)
• Inspired Installs of Matawan is looking for an experienced remodeling carpenter for work in Monmouth, Middlesex, and Union. See posting.
• NJ Transit got me to work and home again on time today. And the air conditioning worked. Life is good.
  
• Nasty thunderstorm here locally on Tuesday evening (last night). The national news mentioned trees down in Central Park in New York City, which is about 25 miles north of here. My yard had oak branches ripped from the trees and in piles. Some of the branches came complete with rather large acorns. Do the large acorns say something about the winter we can expect?