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  • Board gives OK to two contracts

    MARLBORO — No one from the public offered any comments about the contracts for Assistant Superintendent Marc Gaswirth or Business Administrator Cindy Barr-Rague for the 2011-12 school year when they were given the opportunity to discuss those employment agreements during a recent meeting of the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education. At the board’s…

  • FTHS alumna honored with Peabody

    Amy Tardiff recognized for radio documentary BY PATRICIAYOCZIS Correspondent Amy Tardiff I n early April, a postcard addressed to Amy Tardif, FM station manager and news director for WGCU Public Media in Fort Myers, Fla., was the first indication that she was the recipient of a 70th annual Peabody Award, an international competition that honors…

  • Vote expected on supermarket’s move

    Mellon Farms owner wants to use building that formerly housed Silvert’s furniture BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Members of the Freehold Borough Land Use Board have directed their attorney, PatrickAccisano, to prepare a resolution of approval for an application that would, if approved, see the Mellon Farms supermarket move into the South Street, Freehold Borough, building…

  • Moving forward at Brookdale Community College

    Retired state police major aims to restore duty, discipline, credibility to president’s office BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer William Toms, of Millstone Township, is the interim president of Brookdale Community College. The Brookdale Community College Board of Trustees believes it has found the perfect leader in William Toms. Toms, 47, of Millstone Township, is a…

  • Photo contest to capture five decades of open space preservation

    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’s the challenge the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is putting into the shutter-happy hands of residents and…

  • Creative youngsters produce ‘Habitat Heroes’ in Marlboro

    BY REBECCAMORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Children in Ilene Brudner’s third-grade class at the Robertsville Elementary School got animated recently as they presented their cartoon feature “Habitat Heroes.” Using a grant provided by the Marlboro Educational Foundation, Brudner and media specialist Brenna Greer combined lessons in science, language arts and more into a fun, interactive…

  • First step taken on plan to buy new ladder truck

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — A new piece of firefighting equipment is in the pipeline for the Freehold Fire Department. Freehold Borough officials have taken the first step toward the purchase of a new ladder truck as part of a six-year capital improvement plan for the fire department. A bond ordinance appropriating…

  • Browsers and buyers welcome at book sale

    Turn off the electronic reader, pull the little ones away from their Nintendo Wii and return to a time when the only way to shop for books was to stroll through a bookstore, look at a book’s cover and feel the texture of the pages that held words of magic and mayhem, romance and mystery,…

  • ‘Collages’ and ‘Dreams’ at Art Alliance

    “Through the Forest, Through the Trees II” by Jane Craven The themes of the June show at the Art Alliance of Monmouth County in Red Bank are “Collages” and “Dreams.” The Mary Cooper Memorial Award show includes work from members and nonmembers of the alliance. Featured in the window gallery are images from the “Through…