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  • Police investigate suspicious incident

    MARLBORO – Police are investigating an incident in which an adult male is reported to have approached a child on the afternoon of March 4 on Dunn Drive. Dunn Drive is off Route 520, about 1,400 feet east of Route 79. According to a letter that Marlboro Superintendent of Schools David Abbott sent home to…

  • County to launch TV show

    FREEHOLD – Monmouth County is hitting the airwaves with a monthly television program designed to bring the county’s many governmental services directly to residents. “Monmouth In Focus” is a televised companion to the county newsletter of the same name. It is hosted by Cynthia Scott, a former News 12 New Jersey reporter now employed by…

  • China featured in photo exhibit

    MANALAPAN – From now through March 31 the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, is hosting a photography exhibit called “AnAmerican in China.” According to a press release, with the 2008 Summer Olympics coming up in Beijing, China, the photographs provide a cultural and physical background in which the games will take place. Arthur…

  • Shabbat Across America observed

    Members of western Monmouth County’s Jewish community will gather at the Freehold Jewish Center, Broad Street, Freehold, on March 7 in a display of Jewish revitalization and unity. Conceived and organized by the National Jewish Outreach Program (NJOP) in 1997, Shabbat Across America/Canada represents a united effort by the entire Jewish community to renew interest…

  • Marlboro mayor objects to train line in township

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO – Municipal officials have expressed their displeasure about the possibility of a passenger rail line running through Marlboro. New Jersey Transit is presently conducting a study of three possible passenger rail lines in central New Jersey. Running north from Ocean County the rail lines are known as the Lakehurst…

  • Death of boys, 12 & 13, shakes community

    Two youngsters were on Bar Harbor Road when struck; circumstances unclear BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer The combination of two preteen boys on a Freehold Township residential street at dusk and a minivan being driven on the same street turned deadly on Feb. 27. JEFF GRANIT staff Anthony Viscuso, 12, pays his respects at…

  • Young artists display talent at annual show

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer If anyone can lure children away from the din of the electronic world, it’s Elaine Smith and the local artist has been doing just that for years. CLARE MARIE CELANO Art instructor Elaine Smith congratulates two of her students whose work was honored at a recent art show held…

  • U.S. attorney sought records on The Village

    Project in Manalapan has preliminary OK for Route 33 location BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – Records pertaining to The Village at Manalapan commercial project were subpoenaed by the U.S. District Attorney’s Office in Newark in 2005. Aspokesman for U.S.Attorney for New Jersey Christopher Christie told the News Transcript this week that Christie would…

  • Second former mayor lambastes Internet posts

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN- For the second meeting in a row, the topic of anonymous Internet attacks was front and center at a Township Committee meeting. Another former mayor came forward to state his opinion about the anonymous attacks and a sitting committeewoman said the attacks, which can be seen by a worldwide…