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  • Domestic violence volunteer victim advocates needed

    For more than 30 years, 180 Turning Lives Around (180), a private nonprofit organization, has been dedicated to ending domestic violence and sexual violence, which affects the community . Starting in March, 180 will be conducting a training course for Domestic Violence Response Team (DVRT) volunteers. Applications are being accepted for the program and interviews…

  • FRHSD may institute pay-to-participate plan in September

    High school students may be required to pay for sports and activities By Rebecca Morton Athletics and activities may come at a cost to families in the Freehold Regional High School District under a pay-to-participate plan that Board of Education members are considering for the 2011-12 school year. The plan as introduced by Business Administrator…

  • FRHSD board names Sampson new superintendent

    Educator will lead district’s six schools, 11,800 students By Rebecca Morton It may have taken longer than expected, but the contract to have Charles Sampson lead the Freehold Regional High School District as the new superintendent has finally been approved by the state. With that approval in hand, the FRHSD Board of Education approved Sampson’s…

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    Pupils from the Fidelity Chinese School, Marlboro, perform the Dragon Dance during a celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year on Feb. 12 at the Marlboro Middle School. The Asian celebration marks the end of the winter season. The actual date of the holiday was Feb. 3, and 2011 has been designated as the Year…

  • Vote on red light cameras put off until July

    Resident is concerned vehicle owners will not have a way to contest a summons BYMARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Manalapan may join the list of Garden State municipalities that take photos of drivers who allegedly run a red light and then issue a ticket to the owner of the vehicle. On Jan. 12 the Manalapan Township…

  • Colts Neck police OK salary freeze

    Municipal officials say decision averted layoffs BY REBECCAMORTON Staff Writer Members of the Colts Neck Police Department have agreed to a salary freeze for 2011 and will forgo a 4.25 percent increase that had been agreed to in a contract for the year. The Township Committee approved an agreement between PBA Local 333 and the…

  • Storyteller’s art at Art Alliance

    “Le Petite Fille” The themes of the February show at the Art Alliance of Monmouth County, Red Bank, are Black and White and Original Artists’ Books. The show includes work by members and nonmembers of the Art Alliance. The window artist is Katie Ann Stone, whose work is primarily concerned with the act of storytelling…

  • St. Rose of Lima School to celebrate 135 years

    BY PATRICIAYOCZIS Correspondent First Communion Class on May 30, 1938, in front of the old St. Rose of Lima School on McLean Street, Freehold Borough. The oldest parochial school in Monmouth County, St. Rose of Lima School in Freehold Borough, is preparing to celebrate its 135th anniversary with music, liturgy and a dinner-dance April 9.…

  • County TV show kicks off fourth season

    ‘M onmouth in Focus,” the county’s monthly televised program, is on television and YouTube this February with a look at the county’s 2011 Organization Day that took place in January. “The fourth season of ‘Monmouth in Focus’ begins with at a look at what residents can expect from the Board of Freeholders this year,” Freeholder…