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  • Freehold bonds to upgrade infrastructure, buy trucks

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Construction improvements on Throckmorton Street and a variety of engineering projects are in the borough’s future. The Borough Council voted June 3 to introduce a bond ordinance appropriating more than $1.1 million to fund road, parking lot, sidewalk and park improvements, and construction work. The ordinance authorized…

  • Woman hurt trying to end fight

    MANALAPAN — A resident of Manalapan sustained a compound fracture to her left leg as she attempted to break up a fight at the clubhouse at the Knob Hill golf course and country club, Route 33, on the evening of May 23. No charges were filed against the participants in the brouhaha. According to information…

  • Youth police academy to return

    FREEHOLD — The Freehold Borough Police Department will hold its sixth annual Youth Police Academy program this summer. The program will run from July 22 through Aug. 2 and is available to children between the ages of 12 and 16. According to a press release, the Youth Police Academy is a condensed version of the…

  • Holocaust survivor tells chilling tale to students

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer Abraham Chapnick HOWELL — Abraham Chapnick was saved by his father during the World War IIera Holocaust, liberated from a Nazi concentration camp by Gen. George S. Patton, and started a new life in Howell after it was all over. “What brings me around to speak at places of education…

  • Special economic uses will be permitted in ARE-2 zone

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer HOWELL — The Howell Township Council has taken action that will permit special economic development (SED) uses to be placed on a piece of property at the intersection of Route 524 and Squankum-Yellowbrook Road. At the time the governing body adopted an SED overlay zoning ordinance in mid- March, the…

  • Center Stage to offer summer dance camps

    Center Stage Dance and Theater School, with locations in East Brunswick, Marlboro and Ocean Township, will begin its summer program classes in the next few weeks. Stage Struck is a musical theater camp for ages 5 and up in the East Brunswick studio on Tices Lane that includes musical theater, dance, acting and voice. Instructors…

  • Young woman wins PAL award

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer HOWELL — A Howell resident was recently presented with a 2012 Youth of the Year scholarship award from the National Police Athletic League. Antoinette Gingerelli, 18 — or Toni, as she is known — is a senior at Freehold Township High School, She was flown to San Diego, Calif., for…

  • Doctors receive board’s OK for building on Route 520

    By JACK MURTHA Staff Writer MARLBORO — A pair of doctors have received permission from the Planning Board to build a two-story professional office building off Route 520, Marlboro. The applicants, Abraham Sadon and Ludmila Ridlovsky, gained approval to construct a 12,000-square-foot facility on a 2-acre site at 186 Route 520, between Evan Drive and…

  • Event at iPlay proves a hit for education foundation

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Freehold Township Education Foundation is one step closer to reaching its goal of providing interactive classrooms in each of the Freehold Township K-8 School District’s schools. The foundation recently sponsored a fundraising event at iPlay America, Schanck Road, which raised $19,000, according to Ampy Vasquez,…