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School board memberfears town is losing its voice on FRHSD panel By dave benjaminStaff Writer Change in voting points irks Freehold board rep School board member fears town is losing its voice on FRHSD panel By dave benjamin Staff Writer Freehold Borough’s representative to the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education is not…

Family support since theage of 6 helps musiciantake center stage with ease By linda denicolaStaff Writer Family support since the age of 6 helps musician take center stage with ease By linda denicola Staff Writer VERONICA YANKOWSKI Competing against fiddlers from as far as West Virginia, Julianne Koserowski, 11, won the New Jersey State Fair…

John Carey brings loveof his craft to classesat Howell High School By clare marie celanoStaff Writer John Carey brings love of his craft to classes at Howell High School By clare marie celano Staff Writer VERONICA YANKOWSKI An example of artist John Carey’s work shows his use of texture to make images rise from a…

By linda denicolaStaff Writer By linda denicola Staff Writer Artwork by students at the Barkalow Middle School, Freehold Township, including this piece, “Terror Emerges” by Kaitlyn Buffone, was picked by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc. to become part of a project called ARTifacts: Kids Respond to a World in Crisis that represents…

JERRY WOLKOWITZ Members of Against the Grain, from left, E.J. Green, Eric Conceicao, J.J. Ferrito and Grant Herring, rehearse in Monroe recently. The Monroe Township-based rock band Against the Grain sent shock waves through The Saint in Asbury Park on a recent Sunday, then left the premises to finish their homework. The four teenagers —…

By clare MARie celanoStaff Writer Basile’s seeks OK to expand By clare MARie celano Staff Writer FREEHOLD — There will be more room at the inn, so to speak, if Basile’s Italian Restaurant on Park Avenue receives approval for a 1,209-square-foot dining area addition. The existing restaurant sits on an L-shaped 1.85-acre piece of property…

By dave benjaminStaff Writer Enforcement of ’75 policy has dance school owners kicking By dave benjamin Staff Writer The Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education’s decision to enforce a 27-year-old policy that prohibits its six buildings from being rented to businesses has upset the owners of at least one local dance school. In…

By dave benjaminStaff Writer Former A’s first baseman enthralls Pine Brook pupils By dave benjamin Staff Writer DAVE BENJAMIN Lou Limmer, who played first base for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1951 and 1954, signs an autograph for Meridith Reiter during a visit to the Pine Brook School to talk baseball. MANALAPAN — Pupils at the…

Film shot in Freehold to have world premiere in Red Bank Never Among Friends, a new independent feature film about life, love, friendship and betrayal, is set to open with two showings, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at the Clearview Cinema, White Street, Red Bank. Filmed in Freehold and surrounding areas, Never Among…