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  • Going for a ride

    FRANK GALIPO Samantha Griffin, 5, of Freehold, zoomed down the giant slide on June 26 at the second annual Italian-American Festival held at Freehold Raceway. The festival was sponsored by the Italian American Association of Monmouth County.

  • Defamation case involving theater group at standstill

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO – Anonymous bloggers who have aimed critical barbs at the Marlboro Players community theater group on an Internet Web site will continue to have their identities protected for the time being as court hearings have been delayed. Representatives of both sides – the bloggers and the community theater reps…

  • New playing fields may debut in spring at town’s rec center

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – New playing fields that have been constructed at the Manalapan Recreation Center, Route 522, should be ready for use in the spring of 2009. Township Engineer Greg Valesi told the News Transcript on June 25 that the installation of new playing fields has been completed. Valesi said the…

  • Town will buy building rights

    MARLBORO – The township will acquire the development rights to 78 acres of the F&F Nurseries in an agreement that will prevent construction on the land. An ordinance appropriating $950,000 for the deal and providing for the issuance of $902,500 in bonds or notes to finance the acquisition of the development rights was adopted by…

  • Council awards contract for soil cleanup on fields

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO – The Township Council has awarded a contract for the cleanup of contaminated soil on soccer fields at the municipal complex. Work is expected to begin in the near future. The council awarded the contract for the soil remediation project during its meeting on June 26 to Enterprise Network…

  • Freehold Township schools announce personnel moves

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – At the June 24 meeting of the Freehold Township Board of Education, several appointments were made to fill vacant positions within the Freehold Township K-8 School District. According to information provided by the district, Neal Dickstein, the former principal of the Joseph J. Catena School, Burlington Road, will take Sandra Brower’s place…

  • Filmmakers have friend in the ‘Script Specialist’

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Aspiring filmmakers may want to check in with the “Script Specialist” before sending that great screenplay to Hollywood. George Taglianetti George Taglianetti, a veteran of adapted and original screen scripts, shares his more than 15 years of movie experience in Hollywood through his Internet Web site, www.thescriptspecialist. com, and by teaching…

  • Boy Scout’s renovation of shrine earns Eagle rank

    MARLBORO – Timothy Lee, a member of Boy Scout Troop 86 of Marlboro, recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Lee completed the requirements for the rank of Eagle by planning and carrying out a leadership project renovating a shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the surrounding landscaping at his high school, Christian Brothers…

  • Businessman questions partnership’s operation

    Throckmorton Street deserves more attention, property owner says BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD – A $354,000 budget for the Freehold Borough Special Improvement District (SID) was approved at a special meeting of the Borough Council held June 25. The council gave its unanimous approval to the SID’s budget for 2008, which will require…