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  • EBC Radio completes acquisition of Greater Media’s WWTR-AM

    EBC Radio has completed its acquisition of Greater Media’s 1170 WWTR-AM in Bridgewater, N.J. The Greater Media property is in the Middlesex-Somerset-Union New Jersey market, which is ranked 40th by Arbitron. EBC has been operating WWTR-AM for several years under a time brokerage agreement with Greater Media and features a South Asian format for the…

  • Higgins preparing to become mayor

    Local businessman has served Freehold Borough in numerous capacities over the years BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Nolan Higgins, a lifelong resident of Freehold Borough, is poised to become the mayor of his hometown. Higgins, 54, is running unopposed for a four-year term as mayor in the Nov. 8 election. His running…

  • Bond ordinance will include new pumper

    BY REBECCAMORTON Staff Writer COLTS NECK — After discussing the matter with the deputy chief of the township’s fire department, members of the Colts Neck Township Committee are OK with the purchase of a new pumper truck for Colts Neck Fire Company No. 2. The pumper truck appears on a list of capital improvements that…

  • Mazzola will lead Kiwanis

    Carol Mazzola MARLROBO — The Kiwanis Club of Marlboro will install its new slate of officers Nov. 16. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Bella Vista Country Club, 100 School Road East, Marlboro. Dinner and refreshments will be served. According to a press release, Marlboro resident Carol Mazzola will take over as…

  • ‘Shoot. Cut. Paste’

    “Acropolis with Man” The M. Christina Geis Gallery at Georgian Court University, Lakewood, will present “Shoot. Cut. Paste,” an exhibition of digital photographs and collages by Geraldine Velasquez, from Nov. 1-11, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Nov. 5 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Two receptions will be held in conjunction…

  • Take online classes with Universal Class

    Residents can take classes for free with the Monmouth County Library’s new Universal Class database and a library card. The Universal Class database offers hundreds of non-college credit continuing education courses ranging from history, art and math to real estate, computer technology and beauty lessons. Universal Class also offers courses to help homeschoolers, those who…

  • Marlboro to move ahead with tax break program

    Local businesses will have option to offer discounts that would lower residents’ taxes BY REBECCAMORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — A program that will reward residents for spending money with Marlboro businesses has been given a green light by the Township Council. When the program begins, a resident will be issued a card that is similar…

  • Residents may dispose of old medicine

    MARLBORO — The township will be hosting an Operation Take Back New Jersey local collection site as part of the Operation Take Back New Jersey medicine disposal day. The event will take place at the Marlboro Police Department, 1979 Township Drive, off Wyncrest Road, Marlboro, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 29. This initiative,…

  • Board wants to meet with chickens’ owner

    Freehold panel says fowl are not permitted in town BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — In Freehold Borough, it does not matter which came first, the chicken or the egg. The chickens, according to local officials, have to go. During the Oct. 13 meeting of the Freehold Area Health Department, the board’s secretary,…