Category: News Transcript News
-

Applications now taken for VSA/NJ awards
The nonprofit VSA arts of New Jersey (VSA/NJ), New Brunswick, is accepting applications for the 2005 Arts Achieve-ment Awards and “Art Par Excellence” statewide touring exhibit. The achievement awards include the Student Arts Excellence Awards and Education in the Arts Awards. Deadline for application is Jan. 7. The excellence awards are given to students age…
-

Yesteryear
100 years ago The main courtroom in Freehold was filled last Friday night when the meeting to hear the report of the factory committee and transact such other matters of business as might come before the meeting was called to order by John Enright. Mr. Enright reported that a lease had been executed between the…
-

Children’s author tells pupils to pursue dreams
BY LARRY RAMER Staff Writer BY LARRY RAMERStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Author Dan Gutman signs copies of his books for pupils during a visit to the Frank Defino Central School, Marlboro, on Nov. 23. MARLBORO — A well-known author told pupils at the Frank Defino Central School to pursue their passions. Author Dan Gutman…
-

School auditorium dedicated in name of Marlboro teacher
MARLBORO — A teacher who taught in Marlboro’s K-8 school district for four decades was honored on Dec. 14. The auditorium at the Marlboro Middle School, Route 520, was named the Vincent A. Parrini Center for Performing Arts in honor of Parrini, who taught in Marlboro schools from 1962-2001. Parrini had announced his retirement, but…
-

Pupils to perform at arts center
BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The eighth grade voice performance class at the Eisenhower Middle School, Burlington Road, has been invited to perform at the PNC Bank Arts Center Holiday Lights Spectacular in Holmdel on Dec. 21. The students will sing at the Holiday Village at 7 p.m.…
-

Inventor plants seeds of creativity in pupils
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer FREEHOLD — The pupils in Sharon Hennessy’s fourth-grade class at the Freehold Learning Center, Dutch Lane Road, did something amazing in November — they became inventors. Hennessy teaches an enrichment program at the school, and as part of her invention unit lesson, she invited…
-

Bill would hit landlords hard for overcrowding
Mayor calls on residents to contact legislators and push for passage BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer FREEHOLD — A bill pending in the state Assembly would — if it is ever signed into law — hit the people that Mayor Michael Wilson calls “the slumlords of Freehold” right where…
-

Youngsters get a ‘sense’ of Hanukkah celebration
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer DAVE BENJAMIN Brooke Mauro rolls a ball of clay into a candle holder as she works on her project to create a Hanukkah menorah at Temple Beth Shalom, Manalapan. MANALAPAN — Youngsters at Temple Beth Shalom, Route 522, used all of their senses as they prepared…
-

Noontime Optimist Club honors church youth
The Noontime Optimist Club of Free-hold recently honored the Youth Club of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, New Monmouth. Led by Noontime Optimist Club chairperson Carole Robinson and co-chair Ann Denise Rubino, the event honored the young adults for their service projects, including visiting nursing homes, preparing lunches for the homeless in New York City, raking…
