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  • Springtime recreation

    SCOTT PILLING staff Virginia Stone, a resident of the Marlboro Greens adult community, Marlboro, starts off a game of bocce by rolling the Pallino (target ball). Residents began their ninth year of bocce competition on May 3.

  • Adult community approved

    MONROE — Stonebridge at Greenbriar, a 946-unit adult community, can be built in full. The second and final phase of the development, to be built at Federal and Applegarth roads, was recently approved by the Planning Board. The phase comprises 327 units (325 single-family homes). The first phase, approved in August, included plans for a…

  • New meeting room debuts

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer ENGLISHTOWN — They’re calling it an extreme makeover and indeed it is. On May 2, members of the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education held their first meeting in the newly reconstructed meeting room at the district’s administrative offices at the former Pine Street…

  • Bartleson items to be auctioned

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer FREEHOLD — A silent auction featuring items salvaged from the John Wesley Bartleson mansion at 83 South Street is scheduled for the morning of May 14. The 1836 Bartleson mansion is one of a handful of pre-Civil War homes remaining in the borough. Despite…

  • Feds charge Spalliero with bribing officials

    BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer BY MARK ROSMANStaff Writer MARLBORO — Mayor Robert Kleinberg said that given what he has read in local newspapers over the past few weeks, he was not surprised to learn that developer Anthony Spalliero had been arrested by federal agents on May 3. Kleinberg said it was “no shock to…

  • Police, public works & parks consume budget

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Township Committee has introduced a $33.6 million municipal budget for 2005 and with that spending plan will come a 4.6-cent increase in the municipal tax rate. A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for May 24. The budget calls for a…

  • Grants to boost local projects

    Manalapan MANALAPAN – Mayor William Scherer announced at a recent meeting of the Township Committee that Manalapan has received a $150,000 grant to reconstruct a portion of Union Hill Road from Pease Road to Country Oaks Drive, a distance of three-quarters of a mile. Curbs and sidewalks will be added in areas where they are…

  • Zoning chair, councilman debate builders’ donations

    BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MARLBORO — The chairwoman of the zoning board found herself in the middle of a debate with a member of the Township Council last week. During a public comment session at the zoning board’s April 27 meeting, Republican Councilman Jeff Cantor asked board Chairwoman Sherry Hoffer…

  • Talented young musicians will be featured in concert

    Three winners from the Young Artist Concerto Competition will be featured at the Manalapan Battle-ground Symphony concert to be held May 7 at the First Presbyterian Church, West Main Street, Freehold. The competition, held recently, involved 36 musicians between the ages of 9 and 18 and was held at the Jacobs Music Center, Lawrenceville. “This…