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  • Lawsuit challenges test track approval

    Manalapan says plan BY SUE M. MORGAN andDAVE BENJAMINStaff Writers Lawsuit challenges test track approval BY SUE M. MORGAN and DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writers Manalapan officials have taken legal action against neighboring Old Bridge in an effort to reverse a decision permitting a new test track at Raceway Park. The lawsuit, filed in state Superior…

  • Fifth-graders get lesson in life

    by stocking food pantry shelvesLaura Donovanpupils keep uptradition of helpBY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer by stocking food pantry shelves Laura Donovan pupils keep up tradition of help BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Laura Donovan School fifth-graders Allyson Talbot (l) and Chelsea Waldron check the canned goods they have brought to the Open Door…

  • Attorney takes issue with

    Quick Chek application BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer ENGLISHTOWN — Members of the borough’s Unified Planning and Zoning Board may vote on an application for a Quick Chek convenience store when they reconvene at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24. Quick Chek is seeking a use variance that will allow the construction of…

  • Resident injured in one-car crash

    Resident injured in one-car crash MANALAPAN — A township resident was injured when his car slid off an ice-covered road just after midnight Feb. 5. The 12:02 a.m. accident occurred on Millhurst Road about one-half mile south of Station Street, in the vicinity of the Manalapan Englishtown Middle School and the Wemrock Brook School. Police…

  • Police, prosecutor eye school vandalism

    BY LARRY RAMERStaff Writer BY LARRY RAMER Staff Writer MARLBORO — Authorities have launched an investigation into racist and anti-Semitic graffiti that was found in a boy’s bathroom at the Marlboro Middle School, Route 520, on Jan. 30. Administrators in Marlboro’s K-8 school district are cooperating with police to find the person or persons who…

  • Lawsuit challenges test track approval

    Manalapan says plan BY SUE M. MORGAN andDAVE BENJAMINStaff Writers Lawsuit challenges test track approval BY SUE M. MORGAN and DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writers Manalapan officials have taken legal action against neighboring Old Bridge in an effort to reverse a decision permitting a new test track at Raceway Park. The lawsuit, filed in state Superior…

  • New recreation fees OK’d

    BY LARRY RAMERStaff Writer BY LARRY RAMER Staff Writer MARLBORO — The Township Council has unanimously approved fee increases for several programs administered by the Recreation and Parks Commission. The governing body passed a resolution authorizing the increases on Jan. 29. The fee for the teenage summer day camp will increase from $400 to $500.…

  • First-aiders press on with request for new building

    BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer First-aiders press on with request for new building BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — Members of the Englishtown-Manalapan First Aid Squad say they need a new building and would like to see that happen soon. At the Jan. 28 meeting of the Township Committee, squad President Letty L. Topp and…

  • Howell Road exit from bypass will stay closed

    State DOT nixes planto realign ramp that has never opened BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer State DOT nixes plan to realign ramp that has never opened BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer HOWELL — Although a published remark attributed to the commissioner of the Department of Transportation stated that a problem at the Howell Road exit ramp…