Author: Claire Reed, Managing Editor
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Freehold Township zoners deny variance for cell tower
By MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — In its final act before merging with the municipality’s Planning Board, the Freehold Township Zoning Board of Adjustment denied an application that sought a use variance in order to construct a cellular communications tower on property at 391 Monmouth Road (Route 537). As 2015 ends, the Township…
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Places to be
The 2015-16 scholastic sports season is kicking now in high gear this weekend when basketball and wresting launch their seasons. Here are some venues that you want to be at over the next few days The scholastic high school basketball season tips off on Dec. 18. Out of the gate there is an important boys’…
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Sons want their parents to show them ‘love’
ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch Christmas shopping. It simply isn’t what it used to be. Back in the day I could “wow” our four young sons with anything from Nike socks to the Batmobile and everything in between. They were thrilled at the pile of presents on Christmas morning. They would wake up at…
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Homemade pie and local history at heart of Apple Festival
There were apples and sweets galore during Madison Township Historical Society’s celebration of the 50th Apple Festival. The festival was held from noon to 4 p.m. at the Old Bridge Civic Center on Nov. 8. The excitement began when members of the historical society crew started peeling apples at the Thomas Warne Museum on…
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Places to be
Here are scholastic sport venues that you want to be at over the next few days The scholastic ice hockey season is underway, and on Dec. 11, there will be an early-season showdown at Howell Ice World between Howell and Middletown North. These two teams battled all season for the Shore Conference A North Division…
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Pallone proposes improved disaster communications
Proposed federal legislation could one day help residents across New Jersey who lost cell phone service and experienced power blackouts as a result of superstorm Sandy. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-Monmouth, Middlesex) has introduced the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act (H.R. 3998) that would, if passed in the House and Senate and signed…
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Performances of the week
Cheers to these following players who were instrumental in guiding their teams to NJSIAA sectional football playoff state championships this past weekend. Middletown South High School completed a perfect 12-0 season with a 35-7 pasting of Phillipsburg in the NJSIAA North Jersey, Section II, Group IV championship game played Dec. 5 at MetLife Stadium…
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Places to be
Here are scholastic sport venues that you want to be at over the next few days This is it for high school football fans, the NJSIAA’s championship football playoff weekend. From Dec. 3-6, the best scholastic teams in the state will do battle on the gridiron in an effort to be crowned a New Jersey…
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Applegate School moving toward greater sustainability
By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Come January, students at the C. Richard Applegate Elementary School will be getting their hands dirty. “Three or four students per grade will be trying to determine how many recyclable items are going in the trash,” said Debbie Wilson, a kindergarten teacher and chairwoman of the Applegate…
