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JEFF GRANIT staff Kelly Agabiti, 13, from Girl Scout Troop 1859, slips a photo of her troop and thank-you note into a case of cookies at the Allentown post office just before the treats are sent to soldiers in Iraq.
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Architects present final school design
Some projects that can wait would be approved as alternates BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer If all goes according to plan, bidding on Millstone’s new middle school will be done in February and ground should be broken in April. Voters approved the $34.5 million building plan in March. The school should…
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Township ups school safety and security
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE — Officials have plans to beef up safety and security in the existing schools. Millstone Elementary School and Millstone Middle School will be renovated as part of the $34.5 million referendum that passed in March. Quay Thompson, an architect with the Thompson Group, Princeton, gave…
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Pet clinic owners try to clear things up
New facility would have extensive buffering, applicant says BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE — Alan and Sharon Gaboff thought inviting neighbors to their home would quell fears surrounding their plan for a new pet clinic. They were wrong. The Gaboffs hand-delivered letters to residents asking them to come by on…
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Scouts send soldiers a little taste of home
BY TARA PETERSEN Staff Writer BY TARA PETERSENStaff Writer PHOTOSBYJEFF GRANIT staff Girl Scout Troop 1859 co-leader Heather Wade (l) and Cassie Botnick, 12, of Allentown, get ready to have boxes of Girl Scout cookies weighed at the Allentown post office so they can be sent to soldiers in Iraq. ALLENTOWN — Buy a box…
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Officials debate $4 million debt rollover
Town auditor says creating a false surplus is not uncommon BY TARA PETERSEN Staff Writer BY TARA PETERSENStaff Writer MILLSTONE — Roll it over, or pay it off? What to do with a $4 million debt has been the source of much debate over the last several months. The township owes about $4 million on…
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Silvert offered support for community causes
Furniture store owner was pillar of Freehold for more than 50 years BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer Harry and Evelyn Silvert were honored in 2001 along with other founders of Freehold Area Hospital, Freehold Township (now CentraState Medical Center.) FREEHOLD — For more than half a century, downtown Freehold was Harry…
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Panter assures funding available for open space
Millstone officials looking to collect $1.8 million from state BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE — Township officials want to make sure Millstone gets its share of money for open space acquisition. Assemblyman Michael Panter spoke with members of the Horseman’s Association of Millstone Township on issues related to open space…
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Senior blasts board’s $39M building plan
Officials maintain Ellisdale Road is the only choice BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ‘Boondoggle.” That’s how Four Seasons resident Ray Murray described the proposed new middle school on Ellisdale Road at the Nov. 17 Upper Freehold Regional District Board of Education meeting. The board is proposing a $39 million referendum to…
