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  • Mortgage broker sentenced to year’s home confinement

    AFreehold mortgage broker was sentenced to 12 months of home confinement as part of a five-year term of probation on Nov. 13 for his guilty plea to a charge of bank fraud for submitting fraudulent documents in support of a $367,500 residential mortgage loan application, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. U.S. District Judge Joel…

  • Residents vote to keep open space tax at 2¢

    MANALAPAN — By a margin of 2,000 votes, Manalapan residents on Nov. 4 voted to keep the local open space tax assessment at 2 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. According to election results posted on the Monmouth County Internet Web site, 7,272 people voted yes to keep the township’s open space tax assessment at…

  • Woman faces prison term

    AFreehold woman recently pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree official misconduct, one count of third-degree theft, and one count of thirddegree attempted theft. The guilty pleas were entered on behalf of Lisa Morton, 41, Oct. 20 before state Superior Court Judge James Den Uyl, sitting in Toms River. According to a press release from…

  • Area residents boost math team

    TINTON FALLS — Ranney Middle School’s math team took home the top prize at the 37th annual Eighth Grade Brother Christian Jones’ Mathematics Contest at Christian Brothers Academy (CBA) in Lincroft on Oct. 18. The Ranney Middle School Math Team placed first among the 20 teams and 160 students competing in the private school division.…

  • Three vote to censure fellow public officials

    Action revolves around Manalapan legal matter BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN — Township Committee members Anthony Gennaro and Susan Cohen were publicly censured by their fellow municipal officials during a meeting on Nov. 12. A resolution that passed by a 3-1 vote castigated Gennaro and Cohen for actions they took in a matter of…

  • Ex-mayor lobs attack at two town officials

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN — Former Township Committee member and former mayor George Spodak offered a resolution to the Township Committee on Nov. 12 which requests the resignation of committee members Anthony Gennaro and Susan Cohen. The committee did not take any action on Spodak’s request. Gennaro will end his committee term on…

  • Youth sacrifices hair to help other children

    William Horvath HOWELL — William Horvath, 12, of Howell, recently donated 10 inches of his hair to Locks for Love, a public nonprofit organization that uses donated hair to create hair prosthetics for children who suffer hair loss due to chemotherapy treatments or alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder that causes the hair follicles to shut…

  • Residents get block watch program up and running

    Tough economic times seen as possible reason for increase in break-ins BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Rumors were circulating throughout the Whittier Oaks West development, off Union Hill Road, about home burglaries. Not knowing fact from fiction, resident Stacy Healy tried to get the answers she and her neighbors were seeking. “We got…

  • Arts council chair wants to seek tax-exempt status

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN — The members of the Township Committee have been asked to consider incorporating the Manalapan Arts Council (MAC) under the terms of a 501(c) tax exemption. MAC Chairman Michael Gross addressed the members of the committee at a recent meeting. He said gaining the tax exempt status would make…