Category: News Transcript Calendar

  • CentraState offers programs for seniors

    CentraState offers programs for seniors CentraState Healthcare System’s SeniorsFirst will offer the following programs for seniors: • A health fair, featuring free health screenings and educational information for seniors, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon May 15 at the Freehold Township Senior Center, Jackson Mills Road. A "Patriotic Maypole and Dessert Party" will…

  • Motorcycle riders facing charges

    Motorcycle riders facing charges MARLBORO — Five men were arrested and charged with threatening a motorist after what a police officer described as "a road rage-type incident" on April 20. Following a dispute that occurred shortly after 2 a.m. near the intersection of School Road and Route 79, six men on motorcycles chased motorist David…

  • Murdered man still a mystery

    Murdered man still a mystery MARLBORO — Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office investigators are continuing to search for answers in the case of a man found murdered and sealed inside a 55-gallon steel drum. As of press time the age, race and identity of the man had not been determined. It was also unclear how long…

  • Greater Media acquires WJRZ

    Greater Media acquires WJRZ NEW BRUNSWICK — Greater Media, Inc. — which owns Greater Media Newspapers, publishers of the News Transcript — has announced the purchase of WJRZ (100.1 FM) Oldies 100. Greater Media and Atlantic Broadcasting Corp. have entered into a local marketing agreement under which Greater Media will operate the Manahawkin station pending…

  • Democrats trying to unseat Larrison, Powers in county

    Democrats trying to unseat Larrison, Powers in county Democratic challengers and Repub-lican incumbents will run unopposed in the June 4 primary for the right to represent their party in the November election for Monmouth County freeholder. Two three-year seats on the Board of Freeholders will be up for grabs Nov. 5. In the Nov. 5…

  • Rabbi’s trial may be moved

    to Monmouth or Ocean Cty. By linda denicola Staff Writer The retrial of a Cherry Hill rabbi accused of arranging the 1994 murder of his wife may be held in Monmouth County or Ocean County sometime in August. According to an April 19 article in The Philadelphia Inquirer, state Superior Court Judge Linda G. Baxter…

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    Christine DeZerga, 8, a second-grader at the C. Richard Applegate School, Freehold Township, sings and provides sign language for “God Bless America” during an Arbor Day event Friday commemorating local heroes.

  • Committee OKs bond issues for vehicles, improvements

    Staff Writer By linda denicola Committee OKs bond issues for vehicles, improvements FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — In addition to introducing a number of ordinances, the Township Committee ap-proved two bond ordinances, amended an ordinance governing the use of firearms and presented four proclamations and two certificates of appreciation at its April 23 regular meeting. Ordinances introduced…

  • Eisenhower students to appear on NJN

    Eisenhower students to appear on NJN Teacher Joseph Cantaffa and his students from the Eisenhower Middle School, Freehold Township, will be featured on the television show Classroom Close-up, NJ on NJN Public Television. They are scheduled to appear on May 4 at 7 a.m. In the show, Cantaffa takes the students to a recording studio…