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  • Sheriff Youth Week seeks applicants

    Monmouth County Sheriff Joseph W. Oxley announced that applications are being accepted from Monmouth County high school aged students for participation in the 15th annual Sheriff Youth Week program. Deadline for applications is June 30. According to a press release, this challenging weeklong program, to be held at the Monmouth County Police Academy, Freehold Township,…

  • Reports shed light on mayor’s link to PAC

    BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer MONROE – In response to allegations that he was involved in a conflict of interest, Monroe Township Mayor Richard Pucci has decided to discontinue his consultant work for a political action committee. Pucci said he will also take a series of other steps as a way…

  • 100 years ago

    The determination of those having the matter in charge to hold the next Memorial Day services on the coming Sunday, instead of the day set apart for that purpose by law has a sound reason in this matter in which the day has come to be observed in these later years. The original idea of…

  • ‘Guys and Dolls’ to be staged

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – There is a shuffling from behind the curtain, and then the music begins. Gabrielle LaSpisa, 14, walks onto the stage and belts out a song, soon to be joined by other members of the cast. Welcome to “Guys and Dolls,” another musical theater production performed by eighth-graders at the Barkalow Middle School,…

  • Rauschenberg posters: an artist’s response to social issues

    Show of ‘Protest Posters’ at Monmouth Museum through July 23 BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer “Signs” Renowned artist Robert Rauschen-berg has been called an “artist-citizen” for good reason. He believes that artists must be engaged in determining the fate of the earth.” And that is not just talk. Since the 1960s,…

  • Volunteer service commended

    The Monmouth County Board of Rec-reation Commissioners honored Freehold Township resident Irene Mihaly with its Volunteer of the Year award at a dinner held at the Freehold Gardens, Freehold Township. According to a press release, Mihaly is a member of the Freehold Township Senior Center where she serves as a volunteer instructor for several weekly…

  • Board OKs budget cuts

    The Manalapan-Englishtown Re-gional School District Board of Education has accepted a reduction in the 2006-07 school year budget. Board President Anthony Manisero said the cuts that were adopted in unanimous votes by the governing bodies of Manalapan and Englishtown were cuts that had actually been proposed by the school board. Manisero said everyone involved in…

  • Grant to help county plan future of panhandle region

    FREEHOLD – Monmouth County has obtained a $75,000 state grant to help municipalities in Western Monmouth County’s panhandle region develop a framework for future growth and land preservation, Freeholder Theodore J. Narozanick announced. According to a press release from the county’s public information office, the grant is the largest amount awarded to any of the…

  • Manalapan boy charged with sending threats by computer

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer A 17-year-old boy from Manalapan has been charged with four counts of making terroristic threats and one count of computer theft in connection with an incident that involved Freehold High School, Freehold Borough. The juvenile was arrested on May 9, according to Monmouth County…