Dont miss these fireworks!Hazlet: Veterans Memorial Park. Music and food at 6 p.m.fireworks at 9:15 p.m. Rain date Monday.

Jackson: John F. Johnson Jr. Memorial Park, 200 KierychMemorial Drive. The Amish Outlaws perform beginning at 3p.m.; fireworks at dusk.

Lavallette: Concert and fireworks; Lavallette Gazebo,Patriotic concert starts at 8 p.m.; fireworks at dusk.

West Long Branch: Fireworks. Franklin Lake, 9 p.m.

Join theRevolutionin FreeholdRead the Declaration ofIndependence and signyour name with a quill penat historic Walnford Parkfrom 1 to 4 p.m.

Red,white,and blue inOceanportIts the ultimate backyardbarbecue with eatingcontests, live music andgames at Monmouth Park.

ConcertsAsbury Park: Marianas Trench with special guests Ivy Levan,Stone Pony. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Long Branch: Blues on the Beach. Local bands play jazz andblues in West End Park, Brighton Avenue. 7 p.m.

Red Bank: Festival and Concert; Tower Hill First PresbyterianChurch. Strawberry festival and live music at 5 p.m. withconcert at 7:30 p.m.

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New Hampshire primary voters saw plenty of New Jer-sey Gov. Chris Christie in the first week of his presidentialcampaign.

There he was making nice at the Pink Cadillac Diner. Youcould catch him at the American Legion hall. If not there,then perhaps at another pub or fielding questions at one ofhis trademark town halls. Wherever Christie went, he wasfolky, humorous, engaging, many miles removed from hismost caustic YouTube moments (Sit down and shut up, etal.).

But it remains to be seen, in a week were Donald Trumpstole most of the headlines and shined in the polls, whetherChristies focus on the Granite State can improve his long-shot chances for the 2016 Republican nomination.

Christie, trying reverse a litany of polls showing votersview him unfavorably, was warmly received at each cam-paign stop he made during a five-day swing through New

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie holds a meeting with residents at Sandown (New Hampshire) Town Hall on Tuesday night.Christie has held 11 town halls this year in New Hampshire, the most of any presidential candidate.

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