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  • County sought incinerator as way to handle garbage

    It’s likely that no issue has ever evoked more emotion, pro and con, in Monmouth County than the incinerator the county proposed to build at its Tinton Falls landfill about 15 years ago. The incinerator would have been used for the disposal of solid waste. The issue reached fever pitch during the summer of 1991…

  • Hearing on condos continues

    BY FRAIDY REISS Correspondent BY FRAIDY REISSCorrespondent FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Three hearings and several hours of testimony later, the issue of jurisdiction still has not been resolved. The Zoning Board of Adjustment on Feb. 23 again carried the matter of Richard J. Colasuonno’s application and the question of whether the board has jurisdiction over it.…

  • Solid waste coordinator has grown with job

    Larry Zaayenga learned on the job and helped to build county operation BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Monmouth County Solid Waste Coordinator Larry Zaayenga oversees operations at the county landfill in Tinton Falls. Zaayenga has been with the county for 28 years. Larry Zaayenga jokingly refers…

  • Courtesy busing question to appear on school ballot

    Parents, officials express concern with extra cars on road & pupils walking BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MARLBORO – Residents’ concerns were shifted away from an impending tax hike when K-8 school administrators announced a plan to remove courtesy busing from the 2006-07 school budget. The decision to leave the fate…

  • Gold Star program presented

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Mon-mouth County Undersheriff Tom Pegut and Rich Dalfonzo, field representative from the Office on Aging, presented the Gold Star Senior Travel Program to approximately 35 members of the Molly Pitcher Women’s Club at the Old Country Buffet, Route 9, on Feb. 21. According to the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office, the program provides…

  • On Campus

    Gabrielle Chapman, daughter of Karla and Allan Chapman of Manal-apan, was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a 2005 graduate of Manalapan High School. Michelle Torres, daughter of Julia and Fernando Torres of Manalapan, was named to the dean’s list for the fall…

  • Hunt for Nazis topic of talk

    MANALAPAN — A special Yom Hashoah program is being planned for April 24 at 7 p.m. at Congregation Sons of Israel, Gordons Corner Road. Peter Black, director and senior historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies since October 1997, will be the guest speaker. His topic for the evening…

  • Buchalski’s capable service on local board remembered

    FREEHOLD — More than 400 people filled St. Rose of Lima Church on Feb. 14 to say good-bye to borough resident and sitting Planning Board Chairman Michael Buchalski. A mother came to say good-bye to a precious son, loving brothers and a sister came to say good-bye to a sibling, saddened children came to say…

  • Bill would require signs on proposed building sites

    A state assemblyman from Middlesex County wants to require towns to erect signs notifying residents of proposed building applications. Democratic Assemblyman Patrick J. Diegnan Jr. introduced legislation on Feb. 6 that would require the signs and alert communities about upcoming public hearings. The effort comes in the wake of a Feb. 2 Appellate Court decision…