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  • Md. couple charged with endangering boy’s welfare

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Earl Dwayne McCutcheon, 40, and Latoya Maria Debose, 27, both of Baltimore, Md., were charged on June 20 with endangering the welfare of a child, a second degree crime. McCutcheon was also charged with possession of under 50 grams of a controlled dangerous substance believed to be marijuana, a disorderly persons offense.…

  • Down Memory Lane

    A dejected Michael Wilson of Freehold Borough is consoled by Jack McGackin just after Wilson lost his first bid for a seat on the Borough Council in the November 1980 election. That night, McGackin was re-elected to a second term on the council. McGackin was elected mayor in 1983. Wilson remained involved in local politics…

  • Church members shocked at Katrina’s devastation

    Mission to New Orleans shows area residents overwhelming disaster BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer PHOTOS COURTESY OF MONMOUTH WORSHIP CENTER Members of the Monmouth Worship Center, Marlboro, were shocked to see the devastation that remains in New Orleans almost one year after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and left the…

  • Applicant seeks OK for 5 homes

    MARLBORO – Testimony began in front of the Planning Board last week on an application that seeks to construct five homes on Route 520. Representatives of Richmonde Meadows appeared before the board on June 21 seeking preliminary major subdivision approval. The 27-acre tract is in a land conservation (LC) zone on Route 520 just west…

  • Karcher: Town had chance to comment on sign bills

    BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MARLBORO – Democratic State Sen. Ellen Karcher believes the all-Republican Township Council is playing politics with its recent passage of a resolution that requests an amendment to pending state legislation. The state Senate recently passed two bills which if signed into law by Gov. Jon Corzine…

  • Open space at Village divides town officials

    Manalapan committee wants planning chair to answer questions BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer MANALAPAN – In a point-counterpoint maneuver, the Planning Board responded to a Township Committee directive with one of its own, according to Planning Board Chairman Herb Lazar. In a 3-2 vote last month, the committee moved to revoke…

  • Labor atty.’s pact increased

    MARLBORO – The Township Council has passed a resolution amending the contract between the municipality and its labor attorney. The resolution was passed at the governing body’s June 15 meeting. The 2006 contract for Matthew Giacobbe, of the firm Scarinci and Hollenbeck, LLC, to provide legal services to Marlboro on labor matters was for an…

  • Yesteryear

    100 years ago An execution not on the calendar occurred at the Monmouth County jail last Saturday afternoon when a Long Branch man slashed his stepson on the neck with a razor and then cut his own throat. He later died from the effects of the wound. The son was taken to the Long Branch…

  • Gazebo provides new venue for Main St. entertainment

    FREEHOLD – One look around the borough easily reveals summer is here. Diners are relaxing outside the town’s eateries, and Kruise Nite has returned on the last Thursday of the month. Adding to the summer landscape this year is a new gazebo that has made its home in front of the Metropolitan Cafe on East…