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Winners announced at Monmouth art show
The individual works of five artists have been selected winners in the Monmouth County Arts Council’s 2006 Juried Art Show and Sale. The winners are: • Tim Gaydos, Paterson, for his acrylic painting “Park Morning II.” • Michael Lee, Neptune, for a photograph, “Ester.” • Robert Pillsbury, Long Branch, for a mixed-media work, “Broken Horizon.”…
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Yesteryear
100 years ago Washington’s Birthday was appro-priately observed in Marlboro High School, where Prof. Tiersas was the principal, and reflected much credit upon the professor and his efficient corps of teachers, Miss Clayton and Miss Lukens. The exercises were very delightful and entertaining and credibly rendered by the prepared pupils. The act “Columbia” was represented…
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Creativity on display
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Kali Palacino, 3, of Staten Island, N.Y., makes a bracelet during the West Freehold School, Freehold Township, fun fair on Feb. 4. School officials said the PTO raised $746 to donate to the Red Cross Katrina Fund. The fundraising bracelet kits were sold at the event for $1.
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Objectors state issues with housing proposal
Marlboro attempting to gain compliance with state regulations BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MARLBORO — Two official objectors to Marlboro’s affordable-housing plan may have an effect on the municipality’s ability to receive substantive certification from the state Council on Affordable Housing (COAH). Obtaining substantive certification would mean that the state deems…
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New twp. manager ready to get to work in Howell
HOWELL — There will be a new manager watching over the $40 million business of Howell. On Feb. 27, Thomas Czerniecki, 38, will take over the reins of government administration in Howell from Bruce Davis. Davis has held the dual role of township clerk and township manager for five years. He will return to the…
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County grants funding for parks, open space
Manalapan, Marlboro, Colts Neck awarded funds; Howell denied FRAIDY REISS Correspondent FRAIDY REISSCorrespondent What do a fitness trail in Colts Neck, two soccer fields in Marlboro and the last farmland in Eatontown have in common? They were among 13 projects approved this month for grants from the 2005 Monmouth County Open Space Trust Fund. With…
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Town still in pursuit of property
400-acre parcel housed psychiatric hospital for 60 years BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MARLBORO — Negotiations to purchase the 400-acre property on Route 520 near Conover Road that formerly housed the Marlboro State Psychiatric Hospital are continuing. Shortly after the hospital was closed by the state in the summer of 1998,…
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Accident closes Millhurst Road
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer MANALAPAN — A two-vehicle accident forced Millhurst Road to be closed on the morning of Feb. 16 so that damage to a bridge and a natural gas pipeline could be repaired. According to a press release issued by the Manalapan Police Department, Ugar Ceylan, 27, of…
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YMCA plans 85th annual gala
On March 17, the YMCA of Western Monmouth County, Freehold Township, will celebrate the 85th annual Black-tie Gala at the Battleground Country Club, Manalapan. The Gala Committee led by co-chairs Kenneth Thomson, of Caliendo, Manning and Thomson, Freehold, and Patrick Preston, of Merrill Lynch, Freehold, has announced the selection of honorees Jacque Preston of Raymond…
