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  • 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…

  • Roth, Holland appear to win in Manalapan

    Provisional ballots are being counted this week BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN — The outcome of the Township Committee election in Manalapan will not be final until all the provisional ballots that were cast in the election are counted. No results will be official until they are certified by the Monmouth County Board of…

  • Peer leaders stand ready to help others

    Barkalow Middle School eighth-grader Alexandra Lee, a peer leader, assembles pledge bricks on a wall in the hallway of the Freehold Township school. FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Red Ribbon Week, Oct. 20-24, was a kickoff to the year’s programs offered by peer leaders at the Freehold Township middle schools. Members of the eighth grade peer leader…

  • Desire to help out others inspires Marlboro woman

    BY ZACH LEVINE Correspondent While the New York Marathon, which was held in the five boroughs of the Big Apple on Nov. 2, is a grueling 26-mile race that is contested in one day, some people do something similarly exhausting for three consecutive days because of their desire to help others who are going through…

  • Local intermediate school reports 12 acts of violence

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — According to administrators in the Freehold Borough K-8 School District, the Freehold Intermediate School had a total of 13 incidents that were reported to the state (one act of vandalism; 12 acts of violence) during the 2007-08 school year.N o incidents of violence or vandalism were reported…

  • Internet helps provide support for charities

    BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer With the economy in turmoil, many people are tightening their belts, and that slowdown in spending and giving may be bad news for nonprofit agencies that rely on donations as they strive to help individuals in need. Two philanthropic families have come up with a solution that can offer a…

  • Pa. man charged with Exxon robbery

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN — Police have charged a man whose last known address was in Pennsylvania with robbing a Manalapan gas station this summer. According to Manalapan police Capt. Lou Moreto, Chrispeine D. Exavier, whose last known address was in Shamokin, Pa., was charged on Oct. 31 by Manalapan police with armed…

  • Cedar Drive students lend a hand to Texas

    Hurricane Ike devastated homes and schools; children were relocated BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent COLTS NECK — Hurricane Ike may be just a distant memory to most people, but it is not a distant memory at the Cedar Drive Middle School. After the devastating hurricane struck the Houston, Texas, area in September, Cedar Drive’s eighth-grade pupils…

  • Girl Scouts work together for beaches

    Howell-Farmingdale Girl Scout troops 1688 and 1002 recently merged and finished up their Bronze Award. For their service project the girls are making a “Keep off the Dunes” sign to be put up at the Sandy Hook Visitors Center. In order to pay for the materials for the project, the scouts recently held a car…