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Professionals interview for municipal positions
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Manalapan MANALAPAN — As one of its final pieces of business in 2006, the Township Committee held a special meeting on Dec. 27 to interview candidates for the position of township administrator and for professional appointments (i.e. attorney, engineer). At least one professional was surprised to…
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Police dept. achieves accreditation
MANALAPAN — Police Chief Stuart C. Brown and Capt. Louis Moreto went before the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police accreditation commission Dec. 14 after having put the Police Department through an independent audit of the agency in an effort to comply with what are nationally recognized as best practices for the law…
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Costco due at Planning Board
Marlboro MARLBORO — Representatives of Costco Wholesale are expected to appear before the Planning Board in February. Representatives of Costco, a membership shopping club, will seek site plan approval to build a 145,267-square-foot facility in the Regal Cinemas Plaza on Route 9 north near Texas Road. A public hearing on the Costco application was scheduled…
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In the Service
Air Force Senior Airman Bryan P. Feuerstein has deployed overseas to a forward-operating location in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official name given to military operations involving members of the U.S. armed forces and coalition forces participating in efforts to free and secure Iraq. Mission objectives focus on force protection,…
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Dog’s amazing story has payoff for town
Lulu BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Hal and Peggy Eisen of Manalapan have a lot of love for Lulu, their 9-year-old Lhasa apso whose barking alerted them to a problem that turned out to be a house fire. MANALAPAN — When Hal and Peggy Eisen turned over a $7,500 grand prize…
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Freehold Twp. getting set to open Opatut Park fields
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The community’s athletes will soon have a new place to play. Members of the Township Committee announced at the Dec. 19 meeting that Opatut Park, East Freehold Road and Route 79, will have its official opening in July. The land for the park, 130 acres, 85 of which remain undeveloped, was donated…
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Responders brush up on emergency coordination
Training session held for fire departments, police & first-aiders BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer Members of Marlboro’s police department, fire companies and first aid squads used this tabletop layout of a city during a seminar that focused on the coordination of emergency responders during a crisis situation. MARLBORO — A training…
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Whitman sampler
Walt Whitman impersonator visits BCC English students BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer KAREN BOWES Walt Whitman impersonator Darrel Blaine Ford reads from “Leaves of Grass” at Brookdale Community College on Dec. 14. In the background hangs an 1887 photo of Whitman. Everywhere he goes, Walt Whitman gets the same…
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In the Service
Army Reserve Pvt. Brandon Harrold has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission and received instruction in drill and ceremonies, rifle marksmanship, weapons, map reading, tactics, armed and unarmed combat, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, Army history,…
