Let school officials hear opinions on phone plan
      L et the debate begin — and we say that in a way that is meant to foster public discourse on an issue that must be dealt with: cell phones in schools. On July 28, the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education introduced a policy that will prohibit students from keeping cell phones on their person during the academic day.
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Hot summer dreams keep rolling through my mind
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GREG BEAN
      I'm sitting out on the deck looking over my backyard in the dark of a hot summer night. The air is thick and close, and if I close my eyes, I can almost imagine I've been transported to an earlier, almost antediluvian time. The canopy of leaves on the big trees in the yard is foreboding, the branches hanging low with the weight and humidity.
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