Author: MARK ROSMAN, Managing Editor
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Allentown council seeks lower cost for recycling effort
ALLENTOWN – Members of the Allentown Borough Council have decided to use a new recycling facility when the borough’s current three-year contract with Central Jersey Recycling has expired. Council members passed a resolution stating their intentions during a meeting on Feb. 11. According to the resolution, the rate at a recycling facility that is expected…
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Hearing for new buildings postponed until May 7
MANALAPAN – An issue with a legal notice that was published by an applicant led to the postponement of a public hearing in a Manalapan Zoning Board of Adjustment case. Elton Point Partnership has applied to the zoning board for a use variance on a 23.5-acre property on the westbound side of Route 537 (Monmouth…
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Allentown hires firm to complete initial tasks for Ashby Park development
ALLENTOWN – The Borough Council has authorized a professional services contract with E&LP Associates to complete Phase I improvements for Sgt. George Ashby Memorial Park in Allentown. According to a resolution, Allentown has received a Monmouth County Municipal Open Space grant in the amount of $125,000 and the Parks and Public Spaces Committee would like…
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Freehold Township planners approve application for Trader Joe’s
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – If all goes well in the planning, permit and construction phases, a Trader Joe’s supermarket could be open by the fall in a space that was previously occupied by a Walgreens pharmacy in the Pond Road shopping center, Freehold Township. The space on Route 9 north has been vacant for almost five…
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State says it will not revoke license of Manalapan Manor healthcare facility
MANALAPAN – Municipal officials got the news on Feb. 19 they did not want to hear: the state will not move to revoke the license of Manalapan Manor, a residential healthcare facility on Route 33 near Woodward Road. In a letter to Manalapan officials, Bernard A. Raywood, chief of the Bureau of Rooming and Boarding…
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Stephanie Parze remembered during candlelight walk; foundation announced
On Feb. 19, the day Stephanie Parze would have turned 26 years old, her friends and family members remembered the young woman’s life during a solemn candlelight walk on Main Street in Freehold Borough. When the participants reached the plaza in front of the Monmouth County Hall of Records, Stephanie’s parents, Edward and Sharlene Parze…
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Manalapan officials to consider affordable housing zone on Sobechko Road
MANALAPAN – When the Township Committee meets on Feb. 26, its members will consider adopting an ordinance that will help Manalapan meet its obligation to provide opportunities for the construction of affordable housing in the community. The ordinance which establishes an affordable housing overlay zone (AH-O) in a light industrial zone along Sobechko Road, east…
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Allentown officials working with Robbinsville to preserve Wittenborn tract
ALLENTOWN – Municipal officials in Allentown will team up with their counterparts in neighboring Robbinsville in an attempt to preserve an open space parcel known as the Wittenborn tract. The decision amends an action that members of the Borough Council took in December. Late in 2019, council members passed a resolution supporting Allentown’s New Jersey…
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Doctor who served local families for years passes away
A doctor who practiced family medicine in the Freehold area for more than four decades and served on the board of the CentraState Healthcare Foundation, among other public service, has died. Dr. Kenneth W. Faistl, 70, of Mantoloking and formerly of Marlboro and Colts Neck, died on Feb. 2 at Ocean Medical Center, Brick Township,…
