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  • Yard sale will support Catena teacher’s family

    BY ELANA ARON Correspondent FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – What began as a small project to help a beloved Freehold Township elementary school teacher has blossomed into a full-fledged communal outpouring of love. Girl Scout Troop 1762 leaders Tammy Costa, Paula Trochiano and Kathy Ciccarone, and Donna Huskey and Carol Schandel of Troop 1758, wanted to help…

  • Pupils discuss global warming

    Cole Weinstock (l) and Charles Placek FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Through the week of April 21, students at each of the Freehold Township School District’s eight schools recognized Earth Day and Arbor Day with various activities including writing and reciting poems, creating posters, writing environmental messages with sidewalk chalk, and taking part in tree planting ceremonies.…

  • Orleans lays out plan for adult community

    Wildflower at Marlboro will include 2 buildings of affordable rentals BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MARLBORO – A proposed 168-home age-restricted adult community has been unveiled for the Planning Board and members of the public. Attorney Kenneth Pape, representing Orleans Home Builders, began presenting an application for Wildflower at Marlboro during the board’s meeting May…

  • Builder moving ahead on three communities

    K. Hovnanian projects are transforming rural side of Manalapan BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer ERIC SUCAR staff K. Hovnanian is continuing to build three residential subdivisions on the south side of Manalapan near Woodward and Millhurst roads and Route 33. Townhouses are rising in The Villages at Meadow Creek. MANALAPAN – With construction having been…

  • Spring Valley is expected to be repaved

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO – People who drive on Spring Valley Road can finally look forward to improved conditions on the street, which has been in a state of disrepair following the installation of a gas main in the road by New Jersey Natural Gas (NJNG) in 2007. Spring Valley Road runs between…

  • WMUA readies ambitious capital improvement plan

    BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Ron Ingram, the operator in charge at the Western Monmouth Utilities Authority headquarters, Manalapan, oversees conditions at facilities outside the plant. This work station will be reproduced in a new control panel that is part of a planned capital improvements project. MANALAPAN – With much of its…

  • New rules established as Kruise Nite returns

    May 29 marks first of four car shows to be held in Freehold BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD – A series of meetings among Freehold Borough officials and representatives of the Freehold Center Partnership produced an agreement that will allow Kruise Nite to resume beginning May 29. The event’s operation will be reviewed…

  • Youth production raises money for church fund

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO – The children of St. Gabriel’s Church, Route 79, lent their talents to raisemoney for the St. Vincent de Paul fund by performing the musical “Godspell Jr.” over the weekend of April 19. The St. Vincent de Paul fund is a church organization that providesmoney to parishioners who are…

  • Freehold H.S. grad slain on Throckmorton Street

    Cops seek killer of former football player Rodney Keys BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer MICHAEL ACKER Friends and family members have placed memorial candles and loving mementos at a location outside the Rug Mill Towers apartment complex in Freehold Borough to honor Rodney Keys, 39, who was killed on Throckmorton Street by an unknown…