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  • Traffic light planned near new Home Depot

    BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer BY TALI ISRAELIStaff Writer MARLBORO — A new traffic signal may be installed by the fall at the Union Hill Road entrance to the Cambridge Square shopping center. On Jan. 20, a Home Depot home improvement center opened at the shopping center, which is at the intersection of Route 9…

  • Auditions

    Community Christian Choir, an interfaith group of singers from New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, will hold open auditions at 7 p.m. Jan. 28 and Feb. 4 at the Allentown Presbyterian Church, Route 539, Allentown, which is where the group rehearses. The choir will be rehearsing a variety of contemporary Christian music for a series of…

  • New health care clinic begins serving Freehold

    Paul M. McGuire facility offers care to uninsured residents BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer FREEHOLD — Freehold Borough’s newest free health care center that will assist the uninsured and working poor opened its doors to patients on Jan. 21. The Paul M. McGuire Family Health Care Center, sponsored by…

  • ‘Bowl-for-Kids’-Sake’ event set for Feb. 13

    Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth County will hold its 23rd annual “Bowl-for-Kids’-Sake” event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Fort Monmouth Bowling Center, Fort Monmouth, Eatontown. BBBS needs participants and sponsors to make the event a success — more than 500 bowlers are expected to heat up the lanes to…

  • Appointments hinge on judge’s decision

    Citizens complaint alleges Manalapan panel violated laws BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer A state Superior Court judge’s ruling this week could determine if people who are charged with making the law broke the law. A hearing was held Monday in state Superior Court, Freehold, before Judge Lawrence M. Lawson. The judge…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Secretary Miriam Cruz and nurse practitioner Graceann Barrett review a list of the patients who came to seek care at the Paul M. McGuire Family Health Care Center, Freehold Borough, on its first night of operation, Jan. 21. See page 18.

  • Marlboro Dem leader fires back at new club

    Reform club founders answer charges BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer BY MARK ROSMANStaff Writer The “old guard” of the Marlboro Democratic Party has fired a shot directly across the bow of a new Democratic faction. Democratic municipal leader Marty Siskel took aim at the founders of the Reform Demo-cratic Club of Marlboro, Town-ship Councilman Barry…

  • King’s words echoed in commemoration

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer For some people, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just another Monday holiday. But for many, including more than 200 people who attended an annual memorial breakfast on Jan. 17, it is a day that should be spent reflecting on the legacy of a great civil…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Kristen Cizek and Jen Lopes (rear, l-r), both of Manalapan, push shopping carts through the parking lot at ShopRite, Marlboro, with the help of a co-worker as a snowstorm hits western Monmouth County on Jan. 22. More than a foot of snow eventually covered the region.