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  • Scouts’ projects aid Manalapan senior center

    MANALAPAN — The Manalapan Senior Center has found its “Mr. Fix It” in the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of Manalapan. The presence of the Scouts permeates the building at 211 Freehold Road, where Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts) and Gold Award (Girl Scouts) projects have helped create an accommodating and recreational atmosphere. Coffee drinkers get…

  • Photo contest to capture five decades of open space preservation and park development

    A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many pictures would it take to capture the beauty of preserving 650,000 acres of open space and parks in New Jersey over the past 50 years? That is the challenge the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is putting into the shutter-happy hands of residents…

  • Boy Scouts trek through New Mexico wilderness

    A crew of 13 teenage Boy Scouts from Marlboro, Middletown and Holmdel, and their leaders, went on a lifechanging summer trek through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, N.M. Philmont covers 214 square miles of wilderness with trails that climb from 6,500 feet to as high as 12,441 feet. During…

  • WCTC sets 9/11 anniversary programming

    WCTC 1450-AM recently announced its schedule of Sept. 11 coverage to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. During her “Life Advice” program beginning at 6 a.m., Jennifer Lewis Hall will speak with a 9/11 survivor who wrote a book and with Shari Burkat, who runs the 9/11 support organization Voices of 9/11, which…

  • Young man faces tough road in coping with loss

    Corbin Mayo was 11 when his dad was killed at the World Trade Center BY JENNIFER LILONSKY Rutgers University Student Corbin Mayo Until the body of his father Robert was recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center a month or two after his death, Corbin Mayo of Marlboro could not accept the loss.…

  • Chinese festival set for Sept. 10 at Marlboro H.S.

    The second Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival will be held on Sept. 10 at Marlboro High School, Route 79, Marlboro, 2-4 p.m. A kite-flying contest and moon-cake sampling will highlight the family day. Stories about the importance of moon cakes will be told during the opening ceremonies at 2 p.m. According to a press release, Chinese experts…

  • Public rep. slams USPS decision to close facility in Freehold Borough

    Trailer was closed at the end of July; revenues were substantial By Clare Marie Celano FREEHOLD — A review of the United States Postal Service’s decision to close Freehold Borough’s postal facility was flawed, according to a review of the matter prepared by Richard A. Oliver, the public representative of the Postal Regulatory Commission. Oliver’s…

  • FRHSD debuts new academy

    The Freehold Regional High School District has announced the opening of the Regional Learning Academy (RLA) at Manalapan High School for the 2011-12 school year. According to a press release, the RLA is an innovative therapeutic program that will serve the emotional, social and academic needs of students residing in the eight FRHSD sending districts…

  • Testimony to continue on Freehold Borough 7-Eleven

    By Clare Marie Celano FREEHOLD — Testimony concerning a proposed 7-Eleven convenience store will continue on Sept. 14 at a meeting of the Freehold Borough Land Use Board at Borough Hall in Freehold Borough. The application seeking preliminary and final site plan approval was initially heard on Aug. 24. The applicant is HRC Investments of…