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  • ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ to be performed on Freehold stage

    FREEHOLD — Mitch Albom’s bestselling book “Tuesdays With Morrie” will come to life for a limited engagement through June 17 at Center Playhouse, Freehold’s resident award-winning dessert theater company. “Tuesday with Morrie” is the autobiographical story of Albom, an accomplished and career-driven journalist, and Morrie Schwartz, his former Brandeis University professor and mentor. Sixteen years…

  • Junior to attend debate tourney

    Marlboro High School student Doron Darnov has secured a place at the 2012 Lincoln Financial Group National Forensics League National Speech and Debate Tournament. The tournament will be held from June 10-15 in Indianapolis, Ind. “TheMHS Forensics Team competed in a highly competitive two-day National Forensics League district (challenge) earlier in the school year where…

  • Howell resident looks forward to pursuing doctoral degree

    Michael Reca’s graduation with three majors at Rowan is only the beginning BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer Michael Reca HOWELL — For most young adults, college commencement marks the end of their formal education, but for Howell resident Michael Reca, the recent commencement ceremony at Rowan University, Glassboro, was only the beginning. Reca, who graduated…

  • Community invited to Family Fun Day

    MARLBORO — The Marlboro Educational Foundation will host Family Fun Day at the Marlboro Middle School, 355 Route 520, from 1-5 p.m. June 9. The rain date for the event is June 10. Family Fun Day will feature activities and games for people of all ages, including bounce houses, sand art, face painting, prizes, surprises…

  • Memorial Day ceremony honors WW II veteran

    Stockton Jones Jr., 90, presented with medals he earned during service BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Tom Garrett (r) presents a group of medals to Stockton Jones Jr., 90, of Freehold Township, on Memorial Day. Jones earned the medals during World War II, but he only received them several…

  • Organ donation was teacher’s final lesson

    Theresa Kling’s family will honor her memory at June 10 special event BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer In a photo from 2000, Theresa Kling is flanked by her daughter, Brittany, and son, Zachary. Kling, who died in 2007, was an organ donor whose unselfish act gave the gift of life and healing to many…

  • Bus driver charged with failure to maintain lane

    MANALAPAN — Police charged a Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District bus driver with failure to maintain her lane of travel after the bus she was driving got into an accident on the morning of May 22. Police identified the driver as Kristy Tufle, 37, and said she was transporting 37 first- through fifth-grade pupils to the…

  • Ethics board must estimate attorney’s fee for probe

    BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer MARLBORO — It is going to cost Marlboro a few extra bucks to continue an investigation into an ethics complaint that was filed against Township Councilwoman Randi Marder in the fall of 2011, officials said . Chris Dean, who was a Republican candidate for a seat on the Township Council…

  • Freehold Borough police will offer youth academy

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Young people between the ages of 12 and 16 will have the opportunity to see how real police officers train and work by signing up for the Freehold Borough Youth Police Academy. The Freehold Borough Police Department will hold its fifth annual Youth Police Academy from July…