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    CHRIS KELLY staff Rebecca Pivnick, 16, and Jen Post, 17, stroll along a street in Freehold Township on April 13 as they participate in the 2008 Walk MS fundraiser. The event benefits individuals and their families who are living with multiple sclerosis. This year’s Freehold area walk began and ended at CentraState Medical Center, West…

  • Songwriting seminar offered

    MANALAPAN – A new program called "Yes, You Can Write a Song" is being offered by the Manalapan Parks and Recreation Department. Students will discuss the essential components of a song, the use of lyrical language and style, and songwriting mistakes. They will analyze hit songs and evaluate their own work. The instructor for the…

  • Group offers reward after memorial is vandalized

    9/11 sculpture was housed at Weaverville Road studio in Freehold Township BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer The National Police Defense Foundation (NPDF) is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who vandalized its Sept. 11 police memorial. According to a press release from the NPDF,…

  • Summer at PNC: Changes in concert lineup, tailgating

    State police will use video surveillance, plainclothes officers BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer HOLMDEL – Festival-type concerts and tours are off the summer concert roster for the PNC Bank Arts Center, according to Kevin Morrow, president of Live Nation New York. Morrow made the announcement to a small audience at a forum held March…

  • Budai, Johnson pursue seats on governing body

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – There will be a Republican primary in Manalapan in June now that Kalman “Butch” Budai Jr. and Steven Johnson are also vying for two seats on the Township Committee. Budai and Johnson, the two Republicans who are mounting a primary challenge against the candidates who have been nominated…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…