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  • The right song at the right time in the right movie Hollywood doors swung open for musician after 1987 Academy Award

    Staff Writer By gloria stravelli The right song at the right time in the right movie Hollywood doors swung open for musician after 1987 Academy Award JERRY WOLKOWITZ Franke Previte shows off the Academy Award he won in 1987 for the song “(I’ve Had) the Time of My Life” from the movie Dirty Dancing. At…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ Middletown High School South’s Megan Kiefer slides around Freehold Township catcher C.J. Teufel to score the Eagles’ only run during an April 16 softball matchup at Freehold Township High School. The Patriots won the battle of the top two teams in the Shore Conference, 2-1.

  • Partnership planning full slate of Freehold events

    Staff Writer By Clare Marie celano Partnership planning full slate of Freehold events FREEHOLD — A resolution adopting the 2002-03 budget for the borough’s Special Improvement District (SID) was unanimously approved by Borough Council members on April 15. According to Jayne Carr, director of the Freehold Center Partnership, which oversees the SID, the organization has…

  • Family: Tape proves passengers fought back Hearing final moments of Flight 93 emotional for Driscoll family

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta Family: Tape proves passengers fought back Hearing final moments of Flight 93 emotional for Driscoll family On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Patrick Joseph Driscoll, 70, boarded United Airlines Flight 93 at Newark Airport. The longtime resident of Man-alapan was headed for his annual hiking trip out west. Joe…

  • State record tree commands attention at new retail center

    Staff Writer By karl vilacoba State record tree commands attention at new retail center The developer of a shopping center on Route 9 south, Marlboro, will build the project around this state record-holding river birch. The tree was recently pruned and had damaging vines removed from its limbs. MARLBORO — Standing alone in an area…

  • Hometown heroes honored

    Staff Writer By Clare Marie celano Hometown heroes honored FREEHOLD — Under a sunny blue sky on the morning of April 13, the new day brought what many people consider to be the official kickoff of spring — opening day of a new Little League baseball season. As the Freehold Little League prepared to open…

  • Town offers support for constitutional convention Solutions may be sought for reliance on property taxes to fund education

    Staff Writer By linda denicola Town offers support for constitutional convention Solutions may be sought for reliance on property taxes to fund education FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Voters in 19 out of 54 Monmouth County school districts rejected proposed 2002-03 school year budgets in the April 16 election. Districts in which budgets went down include the…

  • Officials push for renewal of Superfund cleanup tax

    Staff Writer By karl vilacoba Officials push for renewal of Superfund cleanup tax MARLBORO — On a hot and windy day, the pungent odor of oil in Burnt Fly Bog’s soil carried through the air. This Texas Road site, named two decades ago to the Superfund list of the nation’s most polluted areas, is ordinarily…

  • Defeated FRHSD budget

    in hands of local gov’ts. Voters in seven towns combine to reject $126M spending plan By dave benjamin Staff Writer Voters in the Freehold Regional High School District overwhelmingly defeated the Board of Education’s proposed 2002-03 school year budget in the April 16 election. The tax levies proposed to support the district’s $126.5 million budget…