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  • Datebook

    • End-of-summer barbecue sponsored by Victory Christian Singles will be held Sept. 3, noon to 6 p.m., rain or shine, at 347 Georgia Road, Freehold Township. Children are welcome. The cost for the all-you-can-eat barbecue is $5. Details: Bob or Toni, (732) 409-3225. • Newcomers Club of Western Monmouth County will host a “meet and…

  • Marlboro council OKs affordable housing plans

    BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MARLBORO — The Township Council has approved the construction of 654 new homes which will include a total of 120 more affordable housing units in the township. Since the mid-1990s, Marlboro officials have been aware that second-round requirements for the provision of affordable housing in the…

  • Passenger dies from injuries

    BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MARLBORO — The driver of a vehicle that was involved in a fatal accident on Route 9 at about 2:50 a.m. Aug. 14 has been charged with driving while intoxicated and may face additional charges. A vehicle operated by Oleksiy Partin, 33, left the east edge…

  • Walling pleads guilty in theft from Friends

    BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer BY BRIAN DONAHUEStaff Writer Local history buff Richard Walling pleaded guilty on Aug. 22 to charges that he stole money from the Friends of Monmouth Battlefield, the organization he led for many years. The Friends support programs at Monmouth Battlefield State Park, Route 33, Manalapan, the site of the Battle…

  • In the Service

    Navy Ensign Kurt P. Munz, son of Elizabeth M. Schneider of Hope Valley, R.I., and Paul D. Munz of Howell, participated in the third annual Joint Air and Sea Exercise (JASEX) with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps in the Western Pacific while assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer, homeported in…

  • Yesteryear

    100 years ago Mrs. Elizabeth Coward, who is believed to have been the oldest living woman in New Jersey, died Thursday, Aug. 24, 1905, at 3:30 a.m., at the house of her son, Forman Coward, at Allen-town. Had she lived five days longer she would have been 104 years old. While her many friends and…

  • Freehold Twp. may limit offenders’ residences

    Officials call on state legislators to impose harsher sentences BY FRAIDY REISS Correspondent BY FRAIDY REISSCorrespondent Add Freehold Township to the list of towns seeking to limit where convicted sex offenders may live. The Township Committee at its Aug. 23 meeting introduced an ordinance that would prohibit convicted sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet…

  • Local streets fall outside sex offender restrictions

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer MANALAPAN — An ordinance which restricts the locations in which a convicted sex offender may live in Manalapan is now on the books. A map provided by the township of the restricted areas appears to cover about 75 percent of the municipality. By process of elimination,…

  • Day laborers migrating away from muster zone

    Daily quest for work brings men closer to downtown area BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff More and more day laborers are finding spots around Freehold Borough — like this location along the railroad tracks near Main and Throckmorton streets — to wait for job opportunities. Day…