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Committee decides to let chairman stay on board
June 28 hearing focused on letter sent to applicant BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer MANALAPAN – Following a contentious hearing that started at about 8 p.m. and lasted until well after midnight, no action was taken by the Township Committee against Herb Lazar, chairman of the Planning Board. At a special…
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Spalliero arraignment delayed due to ill health
BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer FREEHOLD – Health issues once again kept developer Anthony Spalliero out of the courtroom on June 26, resulting in the adjournment of his arraignment on attempted kidnapping charges. The arraignment was postponed until the end of July. According to Spalliero’s attorney, Michael Pappa, Spalliero was back…
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Commercial project under way
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Site work is nearly complete on a project that will eventually see the construction of a day-care center, an office building and a storage facility on Route 537. Village Partnership was granted preliminary and final site plan approval by the Planning Board in May 2004 on an application that includes the construction…
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Close vote denies plan for retail/office building
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer FREEHOLD – The Planning Board has denied an application for a retail/office building to be built at the corner of East Main and Spring streets. Attorney Mark Williams, of the firm Mehr, La France and Williams, Freehold Borough, represented Rakesh Kumar, principal owner of…
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Housing is million-dollar baby
County report details soaring prices in Monmouth market BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer Homes in the Buckley Estates at Marlboro development (top) are priced between $1.25 million and $1.65 million, and are in line with the rising price of new homes in Monmouth County. Photo by CHRIS KELLY staff The Monmouth…
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Candidate wants to eliminate partisanship on committee
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer MANALAPAN – Nikole Pezzullo, the Republican candidate for a seat on the Township Committee, said that as a girl she was inspired by Ronald Reagan and can remember wanting to run for office in order to fulfill what she saw as the Reagan legacy. Pezzullo, 35,…
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Rockin’ sounds come to town
MARLBORO – As part of Marlboro’s annual concert series, Bill Haley’s Comets and The Odyssey Band will be performing at the Marlboro Recreation Community Center, Wyncrest Road, on July 9 at 6 p.m. Bill Haley’s Comets feature John “Bam Bam” Lane, who joined Haley and his Comets more than 40 years ago. The group’s song…
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Yesteryear
100 years ago The entire section of Western Monmouth County has suffered large losses this past week from two severe electrical storms, the most recent storm, that of Tuesday, being accompanied by one of the heaviest rains in years. While there were numerous farm fires as a result of the electrical storms, it is thought…
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Marching into battle
Clockwise from top left- The sights and sounds of the American Revolution were heard in Manalapan on the weekend of June 24-25 as the Battle of Monmouth was re-enacted. At top left, American soldiers advance toward the British. Top right, British troops take the field, and above, fire a cannon. At left, members of the…
