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<news:title>Hundreds join West Milford Beautification Day despite wet weather</news:title>
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<news:title>Looking back: Transportation to Butler High School, 1930-58</news:title>
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<image:caption>The Phillips family, Joe and Mae and their children Barbara, Gail, Joe Jr. and Bob, all bus drivers, are seen with their Phillips Transportation Company in 1958. </image:caption>
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<image:caption>Elk’s North District New Jersey Special Needs Children Charity Ball: Mariella Scarpa, Special Children’s Ambassador, Jayeson Hayward, Alternate Ambassador. Kim Powell, (to the right of Jayeson) Lodge 2236 ball organizer </image:caption>
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