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Board grants use variance to Quick Chek store, gas pumps
Next step will be for businessto present site plan BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Board grants use variance to Quick Chek store, gas pumps Next step will be for business to present site plan BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer In a split vote, Englishtown’s Unified Plan-ning and Zoning Board has granted a use variance to Quick Chek for…
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Pair charged following MV stop
BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Two borough residents were charged with various offenses after police stopped a vehicle at the intersection of Center and Hudson streets at 6:20 p.m. Feb. 14. A police officer was injured during the course of the motor vehicle stop. According to Freehold…
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Laureate earns honor
from scholastic assoc. BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer HOWELL — The American Scholastic Press Association has recognized the Howell High School literary magazine The Laureate as an outstanding publication. Students and staff members are proud of the honor earned by the spring 2003 edition of the literary magazine. Carla Lounsbury is the adviser to the…
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Old lumber yard will give way to business center
Kaempffer Realty Groupto demolish Gordon site,develop Route 9 tract BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Kaempffer Realty Group to demolish Gordon site, develop Route 9 tract BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff The Gordon Lumber Company, for years an eyesore on Route 9, Freehold Township, will be demolished and the land reused as the Colonial…
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$416M county budget scheduled for adoption
BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer For the first time, Monmouth County’s total annual operating budget will top $400 million. The Board of Freeholders introduced a 2004 spending package that checked in at $416,048,017 on Jan. 22. The 2003 budget totaled $392,441,251. The tax levy to support the 2004 spending plan is $260,845,000. The…
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Residents fear traffic from 382 apartments
BY LARRY RAMERStaff Writer Residents fear traffic from 382 apartments BY LARRY RAMER Staff Writer MARLBORO — Several members of the public believe that a proposed apartment complex on Lloyd Road just south of the Aberdeen border would make travel in this area of Marlboro very difficult. Meanwhile, a resident disclosed that developer Michael Weitz,…
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Muster zone ‘test’ irks Freehold officials
Immigrants rights groupwanted a way to gaugeresponse from officials BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer Immigrants rights group wanted a way to gauge response from officials BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff A group of men heads toward the site on Throckmorton Street, Freehold Borough, where an immigrants rights group sought to re-establish…
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Schools trying to keep up with changing job market ‘Outsourcing’ is new business model that
Schools trying to keep up with changing job market ‘Outsourcing’ is new business model that moves jobs from U.S. BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer Students from across Monmouth County recently took the test for admission into one of the Monmouth County Vocational School District’s highly regarded career path schools. One of those schools is the High…
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Youngsters display flair for creativity in artwork
BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer Youngsters display flair for creativity in artwork BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Elaine Smith has been sharing and passing on her passion for art with her students for more than 25 years. "Miss Elaine," as she is affectionately called by her young students as well as some…
