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  • Business ethics come into focus at Team Challenge

    BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer Several Freehold Regional High School District (FRHSD) students recently navigated their way through ethical dilemmas that sometimes pose problems for even the most successful business executives. The 2011 Team Challenge, sponsored by the Greater Monmouth Chamber of Commerce’s Education Committee, called for groups of students to tackle case studies that…

  • Raise for police officers OK’d

    BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer COLTS NECK — Members of the Colts Neck Police Department will receive a salary increase in 2012 after agreeing to postpone their raise in 2011. Officers will now see the 4.25 percent raise that was called for in their contracts in 2011, Township Administrator Robert Bowden said at the Jan.…

  • Freehold Twp. opens camp to nonresident children

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP— Beginning this summer, Freehold Township’s summer day camp program will be open to nonresidents. The program will be open to children age 4 through eighth grade who live in Freehold Township or any other municipality. Superintendent of Recreation Sue Mc- Gough said 2012 marks the first time…

  • Distracted driver hits utility pole on Rt. 522

    MANALAPAN — Patrols responded to a one-car motor vehicle accident on Route 522 (Freehold-Englishtown Road) at 1:22 p.m. Feb. 2. According to information provided by the Manalapan Police Department, an investigation of the accident determined a Monroe Township resident was attempting to use a GPS device in his vehicle when he realized that a vehicle…

  • Complaint halts farmland preservation application

    BYMARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — A combination of state, county and township funds totaling $1,152,000 for a local farmland preservation application is on hold pending the resolution of an ethics complaint that has been filed with the state. Manalapan Township Committeeman Andrew Lucas is seeking to sell a development easement on the property of…

  • Blues and jazz on bill for St. Peter’s concert

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Throckmorton Street, Freehold Borough, will continue its Downtown Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18 with a performance by Dave Clive and the Nawlins Funk Band. The concert will offer something that musical director and church organist Mark Hyczko said is a bit…

  • Liquor licenses may be available

    MARLBORO — An increase in population has given Marlboro officials the option to sell two new liquor licenses, Township Council President Jeff Cantor said at the Jan. 19 meeting of the governing body. Census data revealed an increase of 3,793 people in Marlboro, as the municipality’s population climbed from 36,398 residents in 2000 to 40,191…

  • Bully in New Jersey

    Marlboro native writes novel from bully’s point of view BY ELLEN MONTEMARANO Staff Writer A hot topic these days, bullying is in the media, in the classroom and even in the courtroom. While we often hear the stories of children who have been bullied, we rarely hear stories from a bully’s point of view. Michael…

  • Community garden gears up for spring

    FREEHOLD — To many people, February is a harsh winter month, but to people who love to garden, February means that spring is just around the corner. The arrival of spring will bring with it the reopening of the Freehold Community Garden on Lloyd Street. Individuals who are interested in tending a plot at the…