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  • Circus brings colorful past

    The Russian Air Force will bring their high-flying talents to the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus when the Big Top show visits Freehold Township next week. to Freehold Twp. stopover Hundreds of circuses have come and gone since the mid-1800s. Circuses large and small, carried by horse-drawn wagons or on dozens of railroad cars, three-ring circuses…

  • Board prepares to give nod to shopping center

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta Board prepares to give nod to shopping center The Howell Planning Board is getting set to approve the community’s newest shopping center. A resolution of approval is being drafted that will permit the construction of Consumer Square at Route 9 north and Locust Avenue. The 240,000-square-foot project will be built…

  • Marlboro’s blue light special

    Staff Writer By bob fleming JEFF HUNTLEY Dawn Axen (r) and her mother, Wilhelmina Axen, of Marlboro, keep a blue light on hand to guide police and rescue personnel to their home in the event of an emergency. A county program makes the blue lights available to residents in all municipalities. A simple blue light…

  • Marlboro’s blue light special

    Staff Writer By bob fleming A simple blue light could mean the difference between life and death when every moment counts as emergency response team personnel head to the scene of a distress call. The blue light identification program, in existence for more than a decade in Monmouth County, has found a band of supporters…

  • Residents answer casting call

    Keith Eckert of Freehold Township, a production assistant with the film Grownups, helps Melissa Payr of South Brunswick and Nicole Sawyer of New Brunswick fill out applications for walk-on roles in the movie, to be shot in Freehold Borough and Freehold Township. FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Signups of extras and vendors for the independent film Grownups…

  • Exemption to be sought to parking restrictions

    By dave benjamin Exemption to be sought to parking restrictions FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — School district administrators will seek an exemption to a new law that prohibits parking on the street near an entrance to the West Freehold School. Meeting on July 26, the Township Committee, at the request of the Monmouth County Division of Engineering,…

  • How now, Brown Cow?

    Joshua Gottlieb, 15 months, of Middletown, in the arms of his mom, Janice, is surprised by the friendly lick he just received from a cow in the petting zoo at the Monmouth County Fair, Freehold Township.

  • Hose and Ladder Competition

    Firefighters from Engine Company No. 1, Freehold, work together in Sunday’s hose and ladder competition at the Monmouth County Fair, Freehold Township. The event was sponsored by the Monmouth County Firefighters Competition Association.

  • H.S. technology upgrades in progress this summer

    By dave benjamin There will be computers in all classrooms for the September opening of schools, according to a Free-hold Regional High School District administrator. In a progress report on an ongoing technology upgrade, Dr. Louis Talarico, deputy superintendent, explained what is occurring during the summer break. Speaking at the July 17 meeting of the…