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Today's riddle: What is the difference between black eyed peas and chick peas? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• Experienced Lions Optimistic About 2026 Football Season (thelionsroarmhsn.com) — Middletown High School North's football team heads into the 2026 season with 13 returning starters and renewed hopes after last year's playoff run and Thanksgiving win over Middletown South. Local fans can circle key dates like the Sept. 18 home game against Manasquan and the Thanksgiving rematch at Middletown South as the Lions chase another deep postseason push.
• Whiting man, 80, dies in crash on Route 79 in Marlboro (app.com) — An 80-year-old Whiting man died Friday after his car crossed the center line on Route 79 in Marlboro and hit a pickup driven by a 52-year-old man from the Port Monmouth section of Middletown, who survived without life‑threatening injuries. Monmouth County authorities are still investigating and are asking anyone who saw the crash to contact county or Marlboro detectives.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Black eyed peas can sing us a song but chick peas can only hummus one. (Thank you Bev H. for sending it in!)
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