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  • Council satisfied builder handled residents’ issues

    MARLBORO — Members of the Township Council thanked representatives of the K. Hovnanian corporation for addressing a list of residents’ concerns in regard to a development known as Saratoga Estates/Triangle Valley on Pleasant Valley Road. K. Hovnanian was requesting a reduction of performance guarantees at the council’s Dec. 18 meeting. The matter of performance bonds…

  • High Tech High School named one of the best

    BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — High Technology High School Principal Daniel Simon does not have a ready answer to the question of how the school went from ranking seventh among the best high schools in the nation to the fourth-place slot. “Our program hasn’t changed,” Simon said. “We have continued to do what…

  • Police seek suspect in store robbery

    Suspect in Radio Shack robbery FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Police are still searching for the suspect who robbed the Radio Shack electronics store in the South Freehold Shopping Center, Route 9, on Dec. 16. Freehold Township police Capt. James Lasky said that as employees were preparing to close the store at 10 p.m., a white male…

  • Officials still working on street sign honor

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — A standing-room-only crowd showed up at the Borough Council’s Dec. 15 meeting to ask municipal officials to return a sign bearing the name of the late Rev. Paul M. McGuire to Haley Street. A sign honoring McGuire had recently been placed on Haley Street near the New…

  • Beatles tunes featured in Jan. 11 show

    The ACT Theater Company is bringing “A Day in the Life” to Marlboro. The musical performance tells its story through the songs of the Beatles. The benefit will be performed at 3 p.m. Jan. 11 at the Marlboro Recreation Community Center, Wyncrest Road, Marlboro. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children, students and…

  • Space exploration comes alive at museum

    Space exploration is brought to life in a new display, “Fiction to Fact” in the Becker Children’s Wing at the MonmouthMuseum, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft. More than 100 original space artifacts from the days of science fiction to the present are on loan from Kaller’s America Gallery through August 2010. The collection features toys, games,…

  • Good friends find winery is just fine

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Skip the trip to a Napa Valley winery in California and instead head to the newly opened Laurita Winery in New Egypt, Plumsted, for a unique experience that offers more than wine tasting. The grand opening of the winery was Sept. 20 and showcased the three floors of the winery that…

  • Monmouth’s past and present

    ‘Then and Now,” an exhibit of photographs from the Dorn’s Classic Images photography archive, is at the Monmouth Museum through Jan. 11. The museum has been exhibiting selected historical images from the Dorn’s Classic Images collection for the past two years. Kathy Dorn Severini is the curator of the collection, which includes nearly 5,000 images…

  • FoodBank benefits from drive

    As the economy continues to be uncertain, close to 35,000 area students decided they would answer the FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties’ call for help and join this year’s Holiday Hunger Food Drive. From Oct. 1 to Nov. 24, students at 67 schools delivered more than 25 tons to food to the FoodBank in…