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  • Climber’s success is up among the treetops

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Mark Chisholm gives new meaning to tree climbing. While many youngsters like to climb trees, he has become an international tree climbing champion and recently set a new world record. Over many years of competition, Mark Chisholm of Howell has come to be recognized and honored as an international tree-climbing champion.…

  • Town modifies definition for houses of worship

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – The Township Committee recently adopted changes to the municipality’s land use code to modify the words “church” and “churches” and the phrase “places of worship” to read houses of worship.” The change stems from an ongoing legal case involving Rabbi Avraham Bernstein, a member of Chabad Lubavitch, a worldwide Jewish organization headquartered…

  • Kleinberg, Hornik to face off in Oct. 31 Greenbriar debate

    BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MARLBORO – The two men running for mayor of Marlboro are expected to square off in a debate on Oct. 31 at the Greenbriar adult community clubhouse. Incumbent Republican Mayor Robert Kleinberg is seeking a second four-year term in the Nov. 6 general election. Kleinberg is being challenged by Democrat…

  • Scout’s project to be unveiled at Hope Lutheran Church

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Hope Lutheran Church, Elton-Adelphia Road, will host an Eagle Scout project dedication at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 21. Matthew Grajek, the son of Paul and Susanne Grajek, a Boy Scout with Troop 155 chartered by the West Freehold School, will unveil the labyrinth he created on the church property. According to Matthew, “My…

  • October 2007: Conspiracy of memories

    GREEN SCENE Agarden is a commitment. When your roses succumb to our Mid-Atlantic heat and humidity, when slugs eat holes in your hosta leaves and in anything else that grows close to the ground, when vines creep up and smother everything in their path, when insidious ailments attack your prize plants and insects suck, shred…

  • Historical assoc. director to discuss latest exhibit

    Gamblers, bathers, rogues and presidents – the original “bennies” – had an enormous impact on modern Monmouth County. They populated the mansions and boarding houses and established the world-renowned resorts that made the county and its shore the place to be. “Monmouth County is a wonderful place to live and we can thank visitors who…

  • Library exhibit focuses on changes at Jersey Shore

    When historians consider the Jersey Shore in Monmouth County, they tend to think first about the 1870s and 1880s. That’s when the Jersey Shore, along with Newport, R.I., and Saratoga, N.Y., became one of the most popular vacation destinations on the Eastern seaboard, due in part to the hoopla surrounding Ulysses S. Grant’s summer home…

  • Therapy dogs deliver gift of compassion

    Youths enchanted as they learn about tasks dogs perform BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Furry friends visited children at the Marlboro branch of the Monmouth County Library on Oct. 9. ERIC SUCAR staff Andrew Ignarra, 7, of Marlboro, reacts to some affection being shown to him by border collie Belle during a program at the…

  • Kleinberg, Kay don’t meet in court

    MARLBORO – Mayor Robert Kleinberg and developer Eddie Kay did not face off in court last week as anticipated. It was reported in the Oct. 10 issue of the News Transcript that the two men would be in Holmdel municipal court on Oct. 10. It was learned after press time that the hearing would not…