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Uncertainty surrounds next FRHSD budget
Pay-to-participate option is on the table as officials start work on spending plan BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer With certain information unknown, it is not easy to predict what the financial situation will be for the 2011-12 Freehold Regional High School District budget, but administrators are starting to look at ways to save money. The…
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Marlboro honors fossil hunter
BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Behind houses, secluded in the woods, is an area of Marlboro hiding secrets that include the fossils of creatures long extinct. The Big Brook area of the township is known in the science world for the many fossils hidden in the waterbed. The Big Brook area along Boundary…
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‘Homeward Bound’: 12 months of heartwarming stories
MCSPCA calendar raises funds for shelter BY DAN HOWLEY Staff Writer Kim Ruane’s 2-year-old purebred Maltese, Lilly, is the proverbial lucky dog. She was once confined to a cage in a home that housed 82 other animals, her white coat discolored and matted to her skin as a result of being forced to live in…
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Pope names new bishop for Diocese of Trenton
Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Bishop John M. Smith as head of the Diocese of Trenton, it was announced on Dec. 1 in the Vatican. Bishop David M. O’Connell Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., who was named coadjutor bishop six months earlier by Pope Benedict, now succeeds to the diocesan see as…
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Art speaks for students
HOWELL — Art is a form of expression and for those who may not be able to express themselves verbally, speaking through art can get a person’s point across and the effort itself can be soothing to the individual who produces the art. Students who are enrolled in the Autism Spectrum Program at Howell High…
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Arcadian Chorale plans holiday show
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Area residents are invited to enjoy the resonant voices of the Arcadian Chorale during a holiday concert to be held at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, 18 McLean Street, Freehold Borough, at 8 p.m. Dec. 11. The Arcadian Chorale’s holiday concert has been a part…
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FRHSD board: Contract for new supt. in works
Name of district’s new leader will not be revealed until a deal has been reached BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Anew superintendent of schools for the Freehold Regional High School District has been selected by the district’s Board of Education, but his identity will not be revealed to the public until the details of his…
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Meals will be offered on Saturdays
FREEHOLD — The Sanctuary Program, which provides breakfast and lunch for the working poor, families, and immigrant laborers on Saturdays during the winter months, will begin its seventh year on Dec. 4 serving breakfast and lunch at the Reformed Church, 67 W. Main St., Freehold. According to the organizers of the program, there is great…
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Two-term councilman was in on ‘renaissance’
FREEHOLD — Eric Foster Jr., who served on the Borough Council from 1983- 88 when the redevelopment of Freehold Borough, dubbed the town’s “renaissance,” was beginning to take shape, died on Nov. 19. Foster, 67, was living in Freehold Township at the time of his death. Foster was a graduate of Freehold Regional High School,…
