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  • Yesteryear

    100 years ago Liquor licenses again occupied the attention of Judge John E. Foster in court in Freehold Monday when he sat to listen to the petitioners and remonstrants in the license applications of Barney Feltman for a hotel at Clarks-burg (Millstone Township), Thomas Collins of Manalapan and Louis Troper for a hotel on South…

  • ‘Eddie Cantor’ to visit university

    LAKEWOOD – From impoverished youth to international star of stage, radio and screen, Eddie Cantor traveled a long way from his boyhood home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. In May and June, Georgian Court University (GCU) will host an interactive theater production with its presentation of “Mrs. Gould Welcomes Eddie Cantor.” As part of GCU’s…

  • FRHSD board taps Wright to fill Freehold Twp. seat

    BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer To fill the vacant Freehold Township seat on the panel, the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education has found Mr. Wright. At their May 8 meeting, the board members selected Michael A. Wright Sr. to represent Freehold Township. In March, former Freehold…

  • Plan for bank to be heard

    BY ELANA ARON Correspondent BY ELANA ARONCorrespondent FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – A proposal has been made to demolish a long-abandoned gas station and construct a Valley National Bank in its place. The gas station at the corner of Route 9 north and Three Brooks Road has been abandoned for many years because of soil contamination. According…

  • Benefit yard sale planned

    HOWELL – On May 20, a charity yard sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 25 Carol Lane to support a 3-year-old girl who is battling a rare form of cancer. Carol Lane is off Stanley Boulevard, which intersects Route 9 south just south of Interstate 195. Vanessa Cunha, of the…

  • Courtyard takes on life

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – With the help of teachers and the school’s PTO, students at the Laura Donovan School, Stonehurst Boulevard, have been working on an ongoing project to beautify a courtyard at the school. On Arbor Day, fourth-graders planted annuals and perennials as part of the effort which also allowed them to apply some of…

  • A moment frozen in time

    DON WOOD On the sunny afternoon of Oct. 20, 1957 – the clock in the old Ben Alpern real estate office reads 2:50 p.m. – the last steam passenger special on the Pennsylvania Railroad crossed West Main Street at Throckmorton Street in Freehold Borough. The picture was taken by Don Wood, of Matawan, who has…

  • Village shows life in 1830s

    On May 21 from 1-4 p.m., Allaire Village Inc. will present Village Life at the Howell Works. Admis-sion is free. Owned and developed by James P. Allaire during the 1830s, the Howell Works was a thriving industrial town, iron producing being the main industry. The houses and businesses will provide visitors with insight into what…

  • Committee kills plan for purchase of parcel

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer MANALAPAN – In a 3-2 vote, the Township Committee has directed the Planning Board to rescind a resolution the board recently passed. The resolution adopted in March by the Planning Board called for 50 acres of a 135-acre tract at Route 33 and Mill-hurst Road to…