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Scholarships, special grants supported by casino night
The Howell Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation and the Howell Township Education Foundation, two education-focused, nonprofit organizations, recently co-hosted a casino night at Our House Restaurant and Tavern in Howell to raise money to provide learning opportunities for local public school students. About 100 people attended the event. The casino tables and dealers were provided…
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Caring teen donates hair in name of friends
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Erica Cerrato FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – How one soul is touched by another in life is sometimes even more clearly visible in death. Erica Cerrato, 12, had long hair most of her life – until March 18. On that day she walked into Joe’s Barber Shop on South Street in…
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April: An ear to the ground
Watch whom you invite to your garden party! Some guests are most unwelcome and soon push others to the sidelines. These are the assertive and belligerent plants, soon running wild, quickly filling every space and that of their neighbor. Quite often, gardeners grateful for a different plant will rue the day they plant it in…
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Sides still talking about Kruise Nite for 2008
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD- The future of the landmark community event that some people say put Freehold Borough on the map remains in question. Freehold Borough officials and members of the Freehold Center Partnership were expected to meet this week to continue their discussion about the future of Kruise Nite, which has…
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Band to honor soldiers at Vietnam Memorial
Freehold Township H.S. musicians have enjoyed busy schedule this year BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – The members of the Freehold Township High School band have been busy making music for all to hear during the 2007-08 school year, and they are not ready to stop yet. “We start in late summer with…
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Marlboro Players pursues online defamation case
Attorney representing theater group expects to be in court April 18 BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO- It is a case of who done it in a lawsuit filed by the Marlboro Players against defendants all listed as John Doe that stems from comments that were posted on an online Internet forum. The Marlboro Players…
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Citizens get inside look at K-8 school district
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD – You don’t have to be a graduating eighth-grader to earn a diploma in the Freehold Borough K-8 School District. Agroup of volunteers who attended the school district’s first Citizens Academy were each presented with a diploma in recognition of their “graduation” from a six-session course that taught…
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Feds allege worker fired for complaint about firm
U.S. lawsuit seeks man’s lost back pay, punitive damages BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer HOWELL – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against Brocon Petroleum Inc., Route 33, and its president, Richard Kohler, on behalf of a former employee of the company. That employee was allegedly terminated in violation of the…
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Student information system to be upgraded in Marlboro
MARLBORO – The Marlboro K-8 School District will be getting a new student information system after the Board of Education approved the purchase of PowerSchool at a recent meeting. PowerSchool from Pearson School Systems, of Chandler, Ariz., will cost the district $175,547, according to the resolution that was passed by the board. Superintendent of Schools…
