Category: News Transcript Calendar

  • Boro renews Comcast pact

    Boro renews Comcast pact FREEHOLD — A unanimous vote from Borough Council members at a Nov. 19 meeting to renew Comcast Cablevision of Monmouth County’s franchise in town will yield a $35,000 technology grant. The contract with Comcast has been renewed for 15 years. According to Mayor Michael Wilson, the $35,000 grant will be used…

  • Chamber honorees feted at annual dinner-dance

    Chamber honorees feted at annual dinner-dance HOWELL — For more than 20 years the members of the Howell Chamber of Commerce have recognized those who have unselfishly given back to their community with the presentation of the "Citizen of the Year" awards presented annually at the dinner-dance. This year’s recipients were honored recently at the…

  • Veteran reporter retires

    Veteran reporter retires Dick Metzgar Dick Metzgar, a reporter for almost 18 years for the News Transcript, was honored at a company luncheon Nov. 6 marking his retirement. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s school of journalism, Metzgar, who will turn 70 in January, spent almost 50 years in the business. He was a…

  • 3 escape unhurt from house fire

    MANALAPAN — Three people escaped unharmed from a Pension Road home which became engulfed in flames on the evening of Nov. 21. According to Manalapan Police Capt. Michael J. Rumola, officers responded to a reported structure fire at 78 Pension Road, near the intersection of Sobecko Road, at about 9:38 p.m. The call for help…

  • Support groups give family members an outlet for grief

    Support groups give family members an outlet for grief Several support groups have been formed to help the grieving family members of individuals who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Visiting Nurse Association of Central New Jersey (VNACJ) began holding group bereavement sessions on Nov. 14 in Red Bank and Freehold…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ Drum major Brad Chalupski leads the Marlboro High School marching band before the start of the Thanksgiving Day football game between the Mustangs and the Manalapan Braves on Nov. 22 in Manalapan.

  • Battleground Symphony to play holiday concert

    MANALAPAN — The Manalapan Battleground Symphony, conducted by music director Chiu-Tze Lin, and the Prep Orchestras, conducted by Angela McCurdy and Li-Fen Chen, will present their traditional holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8 in the auditorium of the Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School, 155 Millhurst Road, Manalapan. Both orchestras are sponsored by Manalapan Parks and Recreation.…

  • 10-digit dialing to take effect

    Starting Saturday, residents and businesses throughout central and northern New Jersey must dial 10-digit telephone numbers when making calls within the 732, 973 and 201 area codes. The new dialing method was announced by Verizon earlier this month as a result of three new area codes being added within the same geographic boundaries of the…

  • Boy Scouts help clean Upper Freehold stream

    Boy Scouts help clean Upper Freehold stream Boy Scout Troop 150 from Hope Lutheran Church, Freehold Township, recently participated in its first camp-out of the year, held at Historic Walnford at Crosswicks Creek Park, Upper Freehold. The Scouts spent the weekend of Sept. 28-30 helping to correct a conservation project that hadn’t worked out as…