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  • Community invited to pancake breakfast

    COLTS NECK — A breakfast to honor the community’s first aid squad members and firefighters will be held at the Colts Neck Community Church, 25 Merchants Way, from 8 a.m. to noon Jan. 21. Everyone is welcome to attend the pancake breakfast. There is no charge for the breakfast, but donations are welcome and all…

  • No injuries from fire that started in dryer

    BYAMY ROSEN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — Fire officials traced the source of a late-morning structure fire that occurred on Dec. 20 at 3 McCaffery Road to a dryer in the laundry room. Police were called to the home at 11:17 a.m. by a resident who reported a fire in a clothes dryer, according to a…

  • Teens may apply for humanitarian award

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The township Human Relations Council is seeking local high school students to be candidates for a humanitarian of the year award. The organization will recognize a high school student who demonstrates behaviors consistent with its mission to foster and promote goodwill, cooperation and conciliation among all the residents of Freehold Township. The…

  • Residents being asked to adopt a fire hydrant

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Firefighters in Freehold Borough and Freehold Township are asking residents to help local fire departments this winter by keeping fire hydrants near their home free of snow. The effort is part of a program called Adopt-a-Hydrant, according to Freehold Township Fire Prevention Bureau official Shaun Reilly. Freehold Township is…

  • Manalapan committee to hold reorganization

    BYMARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — The Manalapan Township Committee will hold its 2012 reorganization meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 2 at the municipal building, Route 522 at Taylors Mills Road. Republicans Susan Cohen and Don Holland will be sworn in to begin serving threeyear terms on the governing body. Holland was re-elected to the…

  • Santa’s helpers

    Pupils at the Barkalow Middle School, Freehold Township, help to load toys that were collected by the school community in support of the Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots campaign. Representatives of the Marine Corps Reserve picked up the toys on Dec. 15 and made sure they were delivered to children in time for Christmas.…

  • Officials investigate house fire

    FREEHOLD — Afire that occurred in a UnionAvenue house on Dec. 22 was suspicious in nature and remained under investigation on Dec. 23, according to Monmouth County Fire Marshal Hank Stryker III. Stryker said the home was vacant and no one was in the structure at the time of the fire. He said all of…

  • Former property manager facing seven-year jail term

    Theresa Tierney, 60, of the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, pleaded guilty on Dec. 15 to embezzling more than $400,000 from the Strickland Farms Homeowners Association, Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter E. Warshaw Jr. announced. The plea was entered before Superior Court Judge Richard W. English, sitting in Freehold. English is scheduled to sentence Tierney on…

  • Police investigate burglary at Verizon

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Freehold Township Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a vehicle and any persons seen with that vehicle during the time the Verizon Wireless store in the Colonial Plaza shopping center, 329 W. Main St., was burglarized on Dec. 17 just after 2 a.m. The suspect vehicle is…