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Saving Grace:
Arrow lodged
in deers face
is finally gone
KAREN YI @KAREN_YI
MARLBORO After more than nine months, a doe
with an arrow lodged in her face finally has relief.
The state Division of Fish and Wildlife successfully
removed most of the arrow from the deers face after
tranquilizing her Tuesday morning at a private property off Suffolk Way. The doe, whom activists have
named Grace, was in good health and released back
into the wild with her fawn, wildlife officials said.
After sedating Grace, wildlife experts snipped off
the shaft of the arrow but left the arrowhead in place
because removing it could cause further injury. She is
expected to survive, officials said.
Last week, an online petition urging the state to
help Grace garnered more than 100,000 signatures
from all over the world. The cause was fueled by two
videos shot by an animal rights nonprofit, Showing
Animals Respect and Kindness, or SHARK, which
showed Grace twisting her head to eat or groom her-

$3.25

One year ago

See ARROW, Page 4A

$2.47

One month ago

$2.27

$2.18

One week ago

Current average

NEW JERSEY GAS PRICES

Monmouth County:

Ocean County:

$1.95: Costco, Route 9 and Texas Road, Marlboro

$1.97: Costco, Route 70 near Shorrock Road, Brick

$1.96: BJs Gas , US 9 and Lanes Mill Road, Howell

$1.95: Fuel 4, Clifton Avenue and County Line Road, Lakewood

SOURCES: GASBUDDY.COM; AAA

PHOTO COURTESY OF STATE DIVISION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE

Grace had most of the arrow removed from her face Tuesday
by experts from the state Division of Fish and Wildlife.

Cost drops below $2, lowest at Labor Day since 04

KATHLEEN HOPKINS @KHOPKINSAPP

Labor Day weekend gas prices will be the lowest

theyve been since 2004, with the cost to fill the tank
expected to plunge even lower this fall and winter, experts predict.
At $2.18 a gallon on Tuesday, the average price for
gasoline in New Jersey was almost 30 cents a gallon
less than it was a month ago, and more than a dollar less
than it was a year ago, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
It should go lower tomorrow, Tom Kloza, global
head of energy analysis for Oil Price Information Service in Wall, said on Tuesday.
This is the cheapest Labor Day price for gas in New
Jersey since 2004, when the average cost for a gallon

of gas on Labor Day weekend was $1.82, Kloza said.

Although the average statewide gasoline price on
Tuesday was $2.18 a gallon, anyone with a pulse can do
a lot better than that, Kloza said.
Yolanda Rodriguez, 57, of Long Branch was one of
them. She was filling up her Honda Element at the 76
gas station on Route 33 in Neptune, where gasoline was
selling for $2.03 a gallon.
I love them because theyre low, Rodriguez said of
the current gas prices. That means I have more money to do other things. I just paid $15 and I got almost a
full tank, and I was almost on empty.
Kloza said prices are even lower elsewhere. You
See GAS, Page 4A

ROAD SAGE
As the gasoline prices go down, so does customers' irritation. But when the
prices go up? Watch out. COLUMN, 4A

Above: Jessi Singh, a gas attendant at Fuel 4 on County Line Road in Lakewood, dispenses some of the least expensive gas in
the area at $1.95 per gallon on Tuesday. BOB BIELK/STAFF PHOTOGRAHER

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Children in stroller
left critical after
Lakewood crash
STEPH SOLIS @STEPHMSOLIS
AND ANDREW FORD @ANDREWFORDNEWS
LAKEWOOD Two children who were struck by a
1998 Lincoln Town Car while being pushed in a baby
carriage by their mother are in critical condition, police said.
The children, ages 4 and 1, suffered serious head
injuries in the crash about 10 p.m. Monday, at the intersection of Route 9 and Edgewood Court, according
to an email from Detective Sgt. Greg Staffordsmith.
They were taken to Jersey Shore University Medical
Center in Neptune, along with their mother, who suffered a cut to the face.
The 27-year-old mother was pushing her children
in the stroller across Route 9 when the Town Car,
driven by a 50-year-old Toms River man, struck them
in a northbound lane, Staffordsmith said.

See CHILDREN, Page 4A