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Freehold Area Open Door seeks donations
FREEHOLD — Freehold Area Open Door is joining other nonprofit anti-hunger organizations in competition for a share of $1 million offered by Rhode Island philanthropist Alan Shawn Feinstein. For the 16th consecutive year, Feinstein will divide $1 million among all those agencies using his offer to raise funds from March 1 through April 30, according…
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A booming business
Firearms retailers, local police departments see increased demand for guns, permits BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer A shooter takes aim at a target at the Shore Shot Pistol Range in Lakewood on March 5. Many gun stores have seen a spike in business in response to gun control discussion that is occurring at the federal…
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Manalapan committee taps McNaboe to fill open seat
BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — John “Jack” McNaboe has been selected by the members of the Township Committee to join the governing body and fill the seat left open by the resignation of Don Holland. Holland resigned from the committee and the other municipal boards on which he was serving in the first…
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Some Freehold Twp. homeowners will pay a hefty school tax increase
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer The Freehold Township K-8 School District Board of Education has adopted a tentative $71.93 million budget for the 2013-14 school year. A public hearing on the budget will be held at 5 p.m. March 22 at the school district’s offices on Stillwells Corner Road. The budget may be revised…
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Residents: Work has houses doing a whole lot of shakin’
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Residents of the Kingsley Square development in Freehold Borough want to know why a construction project near their neighborhood has their homes “rattling” and “vibrating.” The residents brought their concerns to a meeting of the Kingsley Square Townhouse Association on March 11 at the American Hotel. Kingsley…
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Marlboro K-8 creates post of supervisor of school security
Individual will train staff, develop a crisis plan BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer The Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education has accepted a list of recommendations — which are largely unknown to the public at this point — that are expected to improve security protocols in the school district. Marlboro Superintendent of Schools David…
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Commissioner orders principal removed from job
BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer The New Jersey commissioner of education has ordered Jeff Simon to be removed from his tenured position as principal of Manalapan High School due to unbecoming conduct and an inability to execute the responsibilities of the job. The Freehold Regional High School District filed tenure charges against Simon in February…
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Volunteers undertake cleanup of massive damage at Quail Hill
Scout reservation in Manalapan lost more than 1,000 trees BY JOSEPH SAPIA Correspondent Top photo: Adam Shumard (r), caretaker of the Quail Hill Scout Reservation, Manalapan, watches as Thom Ritchie flips a bean bag with line attached high into the tree canopy. The idea is to get the line over a fallen limb, then pull…
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Samaritan Center joins effort to end hunger
MANALAPAN — The Samaritan Center is again participating in the Feinstein Foundation Challenge to end hunger in 2013. This year’s effort is dedicated to Regina Finn, the center’s director who recently passed away. The Feinstein Challenge was one of Finn’s favorite projects. Founded in 1991 by Alan Shawn Feinstein, the Feinstein Foundation is dedicated to…
