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Women dance their way to fellowship
Core of Fire uses the healing power of dance BY LINDA DeNICOLA Correspondent Memories of when they danced together as young women led Red Bank nativesMargaret RiceMoir and Carol Penn to form a dance company made up of mature women and call it the Core of Fire Interfaith Dance Ministry. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff…
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Stepped-up enforcement planned on 3 more roads
Police chief reports results from last year’s motor vehicle program BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – Police officers will again be participating in a program of enhanced enforcement of motor vehicle laws on selected roads in Manalapan. A resolution providing for the stepped-up enforcement was adopted by the Township Committee on Jan. 9. Police…
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Company may seek hike in water rates of 20-25%
BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer HOWELL – Customers of the New Jersey American Water Company are learning this week that the utility may be seeking to raise its rates by 20 to 25 percent. New Jersey American informed the township in December that it was planning to file an application for a rate increase with…
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Kane, Sims, Schnurr take seats on council
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD – Three members of the Borough Council were sworn into office when the governing body of Freehold Borough held its annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 6. All six members of the council and Mayor MichaelWilson are Democrats. Incumbent councilmen Kevin Kane and Jaye Sims were sworn in to…
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Council announces 2008 municipal appointments
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD – Municipal appointments for 2008 were on the agenda when the Borough Council held its annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 6. Borough Administrator Joseph Bellina was appointed as the deputy clerk and the affirmative action officer. Bellina is also in charge of damage assessment. Nancy Foreman was appointed…
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Work begins on a place where wishes come true
TheMake-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey has broken ground on a castle like building that will be one of a kind on the East Coast. The 20,000-square-foot structure, to be called the Samuel and Josephine Plumeri Wishing Place, will be on Perrineville Road, off Route 33 west in Monroe Township. It will be one of three…
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Stalking bill expected to be reintroduced
BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Although it received last-minute unanimous passage in the lame duck state Assembly with an 80-0 vote, billA-4354, which sought to increase the penalties and alter the definition of stalking, died due to lack of time and a lack of action in the state Senate. The bill was introduced in 2007…
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It’s not MOM’s day just yet in Middlesex County
BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer Aridership study released on Dec. 13 by NJ Transit says that the proposed Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex (MOM) line that would run from Lakehurst to theMonmouth Junction section of South Brunswick to the Northeast Corridor line and then to New York City would have the highest daily ridership out of the three current…
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Retired director oversaw Manalapan DPW’s growth
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer John Lewis and Hope Ingram-Lewis MANALAPAN – John Lewis remembers when Manalapan residents could burn their own leaves, when the winter mix for the community’s roads was salt and sand, most of the township was farmland and “everyone knew each other.” Lewis, 58, a lifelong township resident, recently retired from…
