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  • Doctor realizes dream

    Veterinarian made plans in high school to open community pet hospital BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent While she was a student at Red Bank Regional High School, Meredith Weltner made a career decision to become a veterinarian and to one day open her own veterinary hospital. That decision became a reality when she recently opened Barnside…

  • Police tip line seeks info on illegal drug activity

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – The township Police Department has established a narcotics tip line within its Investigations Bureau. Manalapan police Sgt. Robert Rushnak said the idea for a narcotics tip line was conceived by the department in an effort to encourage residents who are aware of drug activity or other illegal activities…

  • Kruise Nite gets green light for ’08

    FREEHOLD – The Freehold Center Partnership announced on May 5 that Kruise Nite will be held in downtown Freehold Borough in May, June, July and August. Recent comments by borough officials appeared to have left the 2008 edition of Kruise Nite in doubt. Representatives of the borough and the partnership had been meeting in recent…

  • Green elected board president

    MARLBORO- Three incumbentmembers of the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education took a familiar oath of office on April 29 at the board’s annual reorganization meeting. Business Administrator Cindy Barr- Rague swore in Murray Hoffman, Cynthia Green and Terry Spilken to begin serving new three-year terms. Hoffman, Green and Spilken were reelected to the…

  • Negotiations with teachers will resume on June 16

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer ENGLISHTOWN- The 450 members of theManalapan Englishtown Education Association (MEEA) will likely start the 2008-09 school year in September working under the terms of a contract that expired in June 2007, according to the president of the teachers union. The MEEA represents faculty members in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District.…

  • Councilman wants seniors to have info on tax freeze

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO – Councilman Frank LaRocca and tax collector Shirley Giaquinto are meeting with senior citizens to answer questions they may have about property taxes. LaRocca said he and Giaquinto will meet with residents of the Marlboro Greens and Greenbriar adult communities. Seniors who do not live in aMarlboro adult community…

  • Law expected to reduce sign clutter in Marlboro

    MARLBORO – In the hope of cutting down on the clutter that is caused by temporary signs and political signs that are placed alongside Marlboro’s roads, the Township Council unanimously adopted a new ordinance on April 24 that will limit the placement of these signs. According to the law, anyone who wants to place a…

  • Students take part in immigrant experience

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO- With their ship docked in the hallway of the Frank Defino Central School, pupils were swept back in time to experience a journey to America through the doors of Ellis Island. Immigration Day was celebrated on April 17 as part of the Marlboro K-8 School District’s multicultural festival. The…

  • Rockin’ the Garden State

    GARY GELLMAN Bruce Springsteen performs on the stage of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on May 4, with a little help from actor Danny DeVito, to close the first induction ceremony of the New Jersey Hall of Fame. Springsteen, a native of Freehold Borough who has rocked the world for four decades,…