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  • Auditions

    Six Flags is hiring ghouls for FrightFest, which will begin Sept. 30 at the theme park, Route 537, Jackson. No prior acting experience is necessary. The entertainment department is also searching for FrightFest stagehands, lighting and sound technicians, and makeup artists. Candidates must be 16 years of age and available to work weekends. Interviews will…

  • Federal commission votes to close Fort Monmouth

    BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer EATONTOWN — Fort Monmouth’s more than 5,000 civilian employees and over 2,500 military contractors are evaluating their futures in the wake of a federal panel’s official vote last week to close the more than 88-year-old U.S. Army base. By a 7-1 vote with one…

  • Youth week opens window on law enforcement careers

    With the command, “Drill sergeant, present the class for graduation,” 49 “recruits” who participated in Sheriff Youth Week marched into the gymnasium at the Monmouth County Police Academy, Freehold Township, for graduation ceremonies attended by approximately 200 friends and family members on July 22. Sheriff Youth Week provides Monmouth County students of high school age…

  • Recreation commission OKs idea for background checks

    Township Committee will received panel BY FRAIDY REISS Correspondent BY FRAIDY REISSCorrespondent FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – If Stephanie Samuels has her way, local parents will never have to worry that their child’s coach might be a convicted pedophile. And last week Samuels, herself a local mom with two children under the age of 10, got one…

  • Fourth Walk with Joe set

    MANALAPAN — The fourth annual Walk with Joe will be held on Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. at Battlefield State Park, Route 33. The walk started in 2002 as an opportunity to come together and show support for the family of Patrick “Joe” Driscoll, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93; the plane hijacked by…

  • Explorers will be washing cars

    MANALAPAN — Dirty cars are “wanted” by the Manalapan Police Explorers. Owners of cars, vans and SUVs are being asked to support the local fund-raisers to be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 4 at the Gordons Corner Fire Company, Tennent Road. Passenger vehicles will be cleaned for $5 and vans and SUVs…

  • Local conservation group awards scholarships

    Freehold Soil Conservation District has awarded three $1,000 scholarships to area college students majoring in a field related to the conservation of natural resources. Bruce Culver, of Wall Township, is the winner of the Neal W. Munch Scholarship. He is a junior at Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, majoring in plant science. Eric Spargimino,…

  • District to open doors on Sept. 6

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer ENGLISHTOWN — It’s back-to-school time for more than 5,600 children and staff members in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District. School will begin on Sept. 6. The following schedules will be in place: • Clark Mills, Taylor Mills and Milford Brook schools, 8:45 a.m. to 3:05 p.m.…

  • Campers, staffers recall good times at Ivy League

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer MANALAPAN — Old friends recalled happy days spent at summer camp when the Ivy League Day Camp, Gordons Corner Road, held a reunion on Aug. 13. Former campers, current campers, staff members, swim club members and people who played a role in the history of the…