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  • Administrators urged to make concessions

    Marlboro rep wants benefits returned and end to use of ‘Dr.’ title BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MARLBORO — Katie Goon, who is Marlboro’s representative on the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education, last week called on several district administrators to stop using the title of doctor and to return any benefits they…

  • Staff attorneys expected to reduce legal expenses

    FREEHOLD – In a move that is expected to trim at least $130,000 a year from the county’s legal expense budget while maintaining the high quality of legal representation, the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders has decided to hire two staff attorneys and a paralegal. According to a press release, the decision to bring some…

  • Follow me

    CHRIS KELLY staff Josie, a 6-month-old bulldog, tries to pull Cindy Mabry around the Marlboro Recreation Community Center on Aug. 17 during their visit to a show that was sponsored by the Bulldog Club of New Jersey.

  • Volunteers needed to help domestic violence victims

    MARLBORO — A call for volunteers is being sent out by Marlboro’s Domestic Violence Response Team (DVRT). In conjunction with 180 Turning Lives Around, Hazlet, the DVRT is a group of trained volunteers who are available to meet confidentially with victims of domestic violence at police headquarters 24 hours a day, seven days a week.…

  • Oct. 5 event takes on cancer

    The 15th annual Komen Central and South Jersey Race for the Cure will be held at the Six Flags Great Adventure theme park, Route 537, Jackson, on Oct. 5. The event will include a U.S. Track and Field certified women’s and men’s 5- kilometer run, a co-ed 2.5-mile walk and a co-ed 1-mile walk. There…

  • Townwide yard sale planned

    FREEHOLD — The Freehold Borough Recreation Commission is seeking resident participants for a townwide yard sale to be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 11. To encourage the maximum number of yard (garage) sales in town on that day, the borough will waive any of the normal fees or permits required. A map…

  • Howell youth to appear on annual MDA telethon

    Nicholas Zichella, 11, lives with Duchenne muscular dystrophy BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer Nicholas Zichella HOWELL — Nicholas Zichella, 11, can swim in 11 feet of water. He plays video games and hangs out with his friends. Nicholas acts like a typical boy except that unlike his peers, he cannot walk. Nicholas, who will enter…

  • Sept. 5 wine tasting event will benefit MS center

    CentraState Healthcare Foundation will present its seventh annual multiple sclerosis fundraiser, “An Evening in the Vineyards,” from 6-9 p.m. Sept. 5, at the Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus, 901 W. Main Street, Freehold Township. Proceeds will go to the newly named Linda E. Cardinale Multiple Sclerosis Center at CentraState Medical Center. The event will…

  • Atty. advises holding off before repealing local law

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – Take a wait and see attitude was the advice of the township attorney regarding whether Manalapan officials should act to repeal a municipal ordinance that restricts where in the township released sex offenders may live. In certain instances the local ordinance, which is known as Miracle’s Law, also…