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  • 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…

  • Group to travel to Uganda to continue aid to youths

    For the fifth year in a row, Sylvia Allen, president and founder of Sylvia’s Children, will return to the African village of Masaka, Uganda, and the Mbiriizi Advanced Primary School. As usual, she will return with more than her passport and luggage. She will return with hope. On July 4, Allen, of Holmdel, will depart…

  • Business administrators will be switching seats

    Passiment to take post in county office; Wolf returns to Manal.-Eng. BY KATHY BARATTA and MARIE CELANO Staff Writers Apair of local school business administrators will be changing addresses in the near future. Joseph Passiment, the business administrator in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District, will retire from that position on Aug. 1 and join the…

  • Students perform in concert

    The Cecilian Music Club held its 17th annual Cecilian Awards Winners’ Concert in Woodrow Wilson Auditorium at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, on May 18. The musicians who played in the recital ranged in age from 7 to 18 and had to win an adjudicated audition in order to perform. The winners who performed solo…

  • Used book sale back in Freehold

    FREEHOLD – Browsers and buyers get set. The annual used book sale sponsored by the Freehold Area Branch of the American Association of University Women is returning to Freehold Borough. The AAUW will hold its annual sale of used books at the Freehold Reformed Church, 67 W. Main St., on the following dates: • June…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Top Fuel drag racer Tony Schumacher speeds down the quarter-mile track at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park during competition at the 39th annual Lucas Oil SuperNationals on June 22. Later in the day, Schumacher won the Top Fuel championship, defeating Brandon Bernstein in the finals. See sports, page 69.

  • Rejuvenated park will celebrate with party

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – As the summer of 2008 unfolds, individuals in pursuit of passive recreation pursuits can add the revitalized Thompson Grove Park to their list of sites to visit. Manalapan officials will host a celebration of the park from 3-7 p.m. June 29. Thompson Grove Park is on Thompson Grove…