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Planning, zoning boards may combine in Freehold
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD – It may be time to say goodbye to Freehold Borough’s Zoning Board of Adjustment and Planning Board as separate entities. The Borough Council has introduced an ordinance that would, if adopted, eliminate the zoning board and establish a nine-member planning board with all the powers of a…
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Police suggest precautions in wake of home burglaries
MARLBORO – Police have issued a warning to residents to be extra cautious this holiday season in securing their homes. A press release from the Marlboro Police Department states that detectives have been investigating a string of residential burglaries. Since August, a total of 19 burglaries that have occurred on Friday, Saturday and Sunday between…
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Township to try again with new home height ordinance
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – An ordinance that will, if adopted by the Township Committee, place restrictions on the height of homes to be constructed or renovated in Manalapan was reintroduced on Nov. 28. After conducting a public hearing on a previous version of the home height ordinance on Oct. 10 and taking…
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Amended plan for business park gains board’s approval
BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO – The Triangle Business Park, Amboy Road, received approval from the Planning Board on an amended site plan at the board’s Nov. 7 meeting. Triangle Business Park, a project owned by brothers Steven Meiterman and Bernard Meiterman, was represented by attorney Jonathan Heilbrunn. The proposed changes to the already…
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Spalliero pleads guilty in Marlboro scandal
Developer admits he bribed former mayor to advance projects Developer Anthony Spalliero pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Trenton on Dec. 5 to making bribe payments to then- Marlboro Mayor Matthew V. Scannapieco, and to conspiring with Scannapieco to conceal the bribe payments from the IRS and other government authorities, U.S. Attorney Christopher J.…
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Area woman on national tour with ‘Ring of Fire’
BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent While with a date in New York’s Little Italy, Marissa Caro received a phone call that dramatically changed her career. Marissa Caro “It was the casting director of the musical ‘Ring of Fire’ ” said Caro, 21, a student at Pace University, New York. “I had to be on a plane…
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Substitute faces charges after classroom incident
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – A substitute teacher who was suspected of being intoxicated in a classroom was removed from the Pine Brook School, Pease Road, by police on Dec. 5 and charged with endangering the welfare of the children for whom she was responsible. Mary Kaminski, 54, of Middletown, was taken by…
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Marlboro Scouts win award
On Oct. 6 in Sea Girt at the largest national scout gathering of the year, the Boy Scout/National Guard Camporee, Scouts from Troop 86, Marlboro, took home a very special honor. Out of 9,000 scouts attending the camporee, the color guard from Boy Scout Troop 86 earned first place in the National Guard best color…
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Democrats look to fill Crawford’s seat on dais
Longtime member of Freehold council moves to Howell BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Robert Crawford has resigned his seat on the Borough Council in Freehold Borough now that he and his wife, Barbara, have moved to Howell. FREEHOLD – Democratic leaders in Freehold Borough are searching for a person who is willing to take…
