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  • Women broke free from prisons at home

    Editor’s note: The following are the stories of three area victims of domestic violence. The names of the victims and others mentioned in their accounts have been changed to guard their identities. Their situations are recounted at times in graphic detail. BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Lisa was 18 years old when she met her…

  • Playground to be named for retiring principal

    Barbara Longo is joined by mascot Apples and Superintendent of Schools William Setaro at the groundbreaking ceremony for a playground that will bear her name. FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Members of the PTO at the C. Richard Applegate School recently honored their principal, Barbara Longo, by dedicating a new playground at the school in her name.…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Sister Lucia Iannizzotto, a missionary in Madagascar, was visiting Freehold Borough on Kruise Nite, June 28, and took some time to get behind the wheel of a 1958 Chevrolet Corvette that is owned by Marvin Katz of Freehold Township.

  • Youngsters donate baby items

    Danielle Blitzer (l), Layna Fromkin (c) and Justin Belasco with Liz Donahue, director, CentraState’s Family Medicine Center, and gift bags containing baby items that their fourth-grade Bet class at Temple Beth Shalom, Manalapan, donated to the center for their tzedakah (charity) project. FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – The fourth-grade class at Temple Beth Shalom, Manalapan, recently donated…

  • Marlboro council adopts $32.6M budget

    Municipal spending plan is up $2.3 million over 2006 budget BY ERIN O. STATTEL Correspondent BY ERIN O. STATTELCorrespondent The Marlboro Township Council approved the adoption of a $32.6 million municipal budget for 2007 on June 28. According to information provided by the council, the revenues that make up the budget are: $6.6 million from…

  • Town will give trees close look

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer MANALAPAN – Jim Lawlor finds himself between a tree and a hard place and he has turned to the Township Committee for help. Lawlor lives on Locust Grove Lane in Holiday North, the oldest residential development in Manalapan and a neighborhood that is known for its…

  • Thesis documents how sports impact earnings

    Danielle Goldberg Recent Lafayette College graduate Danielle Goldberg of Marlboro was a member of the women’s soccer team her first two years on the Easton, Pa., campus. But when she stopped playing soccer at the end of her sophomore year, she began noticing changes in those around her. “The beginning of my junior year marked…

  • Five indicted in plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix

    Five men arrested last month for allegedly plotting an armed assault on Fort Dix in Burlington County were indicted last week, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Christopher J. Christie announced. The five defendants are charged with conspiracy and other charges related to their plans to kill as many soldiers at the Army base as possible.…

  • ‘The Foreigner’ arrives at Priedaine in Howell

    A side-splitting comic gem with a social conscience? An in-your-face comedy that tackles topics like morality and prejudice? That’s exactly what the troupe from The South Street Players of Freehold delves into with their upcoming dessert theater production of “The Foreigner” by the late playwright Larry Shue. The play will run on the New Jersey…