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  • Optimists present awards

    The Noontime Optimist Club of Freehold held its annual Youth of the Year Award luncheon recently to honor one male and one female graduating senior from the Freehold Regional High School District. Each honoree gave a two-minute presentation about their accomplishments and future goals. Melissa Ventre, of Manalapan High School, and Jeffrey Cheng, of Freehold…

  • Plans under way to start new Community Bank

    BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer Freehold Township FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – If all goes according to plan, there will be a new bank on Route 9 by January. A board of directors has already been sworn in and an application has been submitted to the state Department of Banking and Insurance, said…

  • Candidates for U.S. Senate seat agree to Web debate

    The Hall Institute of Public Policy-New Jersey has launched an initiative to encourage and increase citizen participation in the electoral process. An online “virtual debate” between New Jersey’s candidates for the U.S. Senate began on July 4 on the Hall Institute Internet Web site at www.hallnj.org. The virtual debate – the first of its type…

  • Howell offers to bail out league with $140K loan

    Concession stand will be finished at No. Howell site BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer HOWELL – With an agreement between the township and officials of the North Howell Little League worked out, a concession stand project will not become the $410,000 home run some residents feared it could turn…

  • On the road in pursuit of the spirit of New Jersey

    ‘Driving Jersey’ aims to define the state through stories of its residents BY KATHY HALL Correspondent BY KATHY HALLCorrespondent Steve Rogers of Red Bank plans to travel the state, stopping to record the unique stories of people he encounters. To paraphrase a former governor, New Jersey and the automobile are “perfect together.” Whether it’s the…

  • Yesteryear

    100 years ago A correspondent of the Asbury Park Journal is running Monmouth County Sheriff Asa Francis for Governor of New Jersey and Gov. Edward C. Stokes for United States Senator. He swears the Governor is a great “reasoner,” and Mr. Francis is a “brilliant Mayor” and suggest that no “insurance man” need apply again…

  • Author relates life story of Cuban leader Batista

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer Frank Argote-Freyre It was difficult to tell who was more excited seeing Frank Argote-Freyre’s book siting on a shelf at Barnes & Noble, the author himself or his daughter, Amanda, 10. Either way, the experience was amazing, according to the author. Argote-Freyre, 46, of…

  • Truck co. execs face indictment

    Brothers were prominent in O’Grady trial testimony BY KAREN E. BOWES and COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writers BY KAREN E. BOWES and COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writers NEWARK – Operation Bid Rig officially spread into neighboring Ocean County on Friday when a grand jury handed down another indictment charging illegal payoffs between local governments and contractors. The co-owners…

  • Park system eyes airport for possible purchase

    BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MARLBORO – The Monmouth County Park System has identified the former Marlboro Airport site on Route 79 as one of five possible locations to be acquired as potential county park sites. A draft document of the county’s open space plan is currently before the Mon-mouth County…