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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Manalapan symphony to perform

    MANALAPAN – The Manalapan Symphony Orchestra will present its second concert of the 2007-08 season at 3 p.m. May 4 at Manalapan High School, Church Lane. Michael Avagliano, in his first year as music director, will lead the orchestra as it presents a program of Mozart, Haydn and Dvorak. Antonin Dvorak’s “New World” symphony is…

  • Council working to keep municipal tax rate stable

    Howell officials acknowledge tough financial times BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer HOWELL – Township officials are working to develop a budget for 2008 that will not raise the municipal tax rate. The budget was discussed by members of the Township Council during an April 9 meeting. At that time members of the governing body indicated…

  • Hoppes, Levy, McMillan, Williams seek board seats

    BY ELANA ARON Correspondent FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP- Four candidates are running for three three-year terms on the Freehold Township K-8 School District Board of Education in the April 15 school election. The candidates are Mike Williams, Grace McMillan, Jason Levy and Robert Hoppes. Williams, McMillan and Hoppes are current members of the board. Hoppes has lived…

  • Brothers raise funds to support research

    Dylan Clancy, who has a kidney disease, and his two brothers have raised more than $27,000 for research by selling raffle tickets to Broadway shows, among other tactics. The Clancy family resides in Freehold Township. The Clancy brothers, representing thousands of children nationwide suffering from nephrotic syndrome and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), have donated the…