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By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer ENGLISHTOWN — The cause of a fire that destroyed a home at 2 Park Ave., Englishtown, on the morning of March 9 remains unknown. “The cause of the fire is undetermined,” Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Charles Webster said this week. The investigation into the fire was conducted by the…

A Freehold Borough resident was sentenced to 20 years in a New Jersey state prison on July 14 for the 2013 shooting of two men in Asbury Park that left one man dead and another wounded, Monmouth County Acting Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced. Jamar Walker, 32, was sentenced to 20 years in state prison,…

MANALAPAN — One year after granting the Manalapan Soccer Club the right to use municipal property for soccer fields, the Township Committee will repeal the ordinance that put the agreement in place. At its meeting on July 8, the Township Committee voted 3-0 to introduce an ordinance repealing a 2014 law that gave the soccer…

HOWELL — The Howell Planning Board has unanimously approved an application proposing the construction of an age-restricted community on Route 33. The board took the action on June 18. In March, representatives of the applicant, Boulder Ridge, appeared before the board seeking approval to construct an active adult community consisting of 141 residential lots and…

By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer Public hearings concerning the proposed sale of two Monmouth County care centers are scheduled for August. One care center is in Freehold Township and one care center is in Wall Township. After decades of operation by the county, both facilities will be sold by public auction as the county steps…

By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer Steve Smith Business is good for Freehold Borough native Steve Smith, who owns two bars in the French Quarter in New Orleans with his business partner Brad Bohannan. In 2013, Smith and Bohannan were featured in an episode of “Bar Rescue” on Spike TV. Viewers who missed that episode of…

By JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer A fire has been burning for days at the DCH Collision Center on Livingston Avenue in North Brunswick since first igniting around 2:30 a.m. on July 22. PHOTO COURTESY OF KEN TERNLUND NORTH BRUNSWICK — Residents who were evacuated due to a massive warehouse fire in North Brunswick last week…

FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Freehold Township Education Foundation (FTEF) recently announced the recipients of the 2015 William J. Setaro Building Blocks for Innovation (BBI) grants program. A total of four teacher-written grants were funded, divided among three schools in the Freehold Township K-8 School District among the Joseph J. Catena School, the Laura Donovan School…

By PETER ELACQUA Staff Writer MARLBORO — The township is the recipient of a state Green Acres matching grant in the amount of $825,000 from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Garden State Preservation Trust through the Planning Incentive Grant program. Capt. Shital Rajan, who chairs Marlboro’s Open Space Committee, said…