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Sunday, November 25, 2012

High-Tech Holiday Gifts for the Techies on Your List

A guide to choosing technology items

Techies will love the wide array of options available this holiday season. From affordable tablets to the newest cell phones, there is sure to be winner on this year’s list of the hottest in all things techie. Small tablets are becoming a major selling point as consumers look for options packed in smaller packages. Apple has dominated the larger tablet industry with its iPad, but competition is heating up in the smaller tablet market, with four worthy competitors vying for market share. Gaming systems are continually being updated and reconfigured. If there’s a gamer on your list, maybe a new system is high on their list. eReaders are turning paperback enthusiasts into digital reader converts. Two new eReaders are brightening the industry …

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Buy Christmas Trees and Poinsettias to Save Project Graduation

Sales for Point Borough High School are lagging due to Superstorm Sandy

  The Project Graduation Committee is urging the Point Borough community to buy Christmas trees, poinsettias and holiday greens by Monday to make sure the alcohol-free event happens next June. The night at the Atlantic Club following the Point Borough High School graduation is at risk of becoming a secondary victim of Superstorm Sandy because organizers lost a few valuable weeks to sell the holiday flowers and greenery. Sales started at the end of October, just as the storm was hitting and then the local public schools were closed for two weeks, so sales are way behind and the deadline is Monday. "We are trying to focus on not letting Sandy take the holiday out of Point Pleasant and to let Project Graduation bring the holiday spirit with …

David Daur

4:48 am on Wednesday, November 21, 2012

I live in Lakewood but have good friends in Point Pleasant. I will forgo our tradition of cutting down a tree with my two boys in order to buy our Christmas tree from Project Graduation. This is a great cause that I hope more people will consider this year!   more ›

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