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“Twenty Artists Remember 9/11, Six Years Later,” featuring works by local artists, will exhibit at Brookdale’s Western Monmouth Branch Campus, 3680 Route 9 south, Freehold, behind the Bank of America. An artists’ reception Sept. 11, 5-7 p.m., will open the showing. Light refreshments will be served. The works will be on display through Sept. 27.…
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Freehold zoners hear pitch for Olive Garden
Fate of Jersey Freeze remains up in the air pending board’s answer BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer GEORGE J. EVANS SR. Jersey Freeze has been a landmark on Manalapan Avenue at Route 9 in Freehold for over 50 years. This photograph shows a scene at the venerable ice cream stand and snack bar in…
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Pair target Hispanics in scheme
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD – The Freehold Borough Police Department wants residents to be aware that there has been a rash of what Detective Sgt. Timothy Jablonski called “bait and switch” crimes on the streets of the town. According to Jablonski, the crimes have occurred over the last six months on various…
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Police officer returns to Iraq
BY ELANA ARON Correspondent FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Jimmy Santiago sounds like the calmest man in the world. No one would believe that the 35-year-old Freehold Township police officer was speaking from Fort Benning, Ga., the location from which he would soon be headed back to Iraq – again. By the time you read this Santiago…
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Battle of the Bands Sept. 8
FREEHOLD – The Freehold Borough Recreation Commission and the Freehold Borough Educational Foundation will cohost Freehold Borough’s first Battle of the Bands on Sept. 8 from 4-8 p.m. in the Monmouth County Hall of Records parking lot, between Lafayette and East Main streets. Some of the bands scheduled to perform include Off 537, The Creetons,…
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Monmouth County wins settlement worth $7.7M
FREEHOLD – Monmouth County received a $5.4 million financial settlement from the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) on July 18. The financial settlement is based on the state’s underpayment to the county for the housing of state inmates at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution (MCCI), Freehold Township, dating back to January 1988. According to…
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Business owner attempting to save stately beech tree
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD – If trees could only talk, the stories they might tell; for instance, what would the magnificent European copper beech tree that stands in the backyard of Interstate Motor Carriers Agency, 55 E. Main St., have to say about the borough? The base of the tree now resembles…
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Father-son legal case continues
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – A state Superior Court judge has ruled that a legal matter between Drew Shapiro and his father, Murry Shapiro, may proceed in Superior Court. Drew Shapiro is a former member of the Manalapan Township Committee who served as mayor during his term on the municipal governing body. He…
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Brief makes claim GOP running mates have split
Ticket of Cohen, Lucas is seeking two seats in Manalapan race BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer MANALAPAN – Following state Superior Court Judge Richard W. English’s decision to let Manalapan proceed with a malpractice complaint against attorney Stuart Moskovitz, the News Transcript obtained and reviewed legal briefs that had been filed by the township’s counsel…
