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Community invited to see ‘Laramie Project’
MANALAPAN — For the past few months, Manalapan High School student Gabrielle Cook has been participating in a Young Women’s Leadership Institute project sponsored by state Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande (RMonmouth and Mercer). As part of Gabrielle’s project, Manalapan High School, Church Lane, will present “The Laramie Project” on Oct. 23 and Oct. 27 at 7:30…
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Freehold Borough expects all of its state aid in 2010
FREEHOLD — Municipal officials expect Freehold Borough to receive 100 percent of its state aid this year based on answers they provided on the Local Government Best Practices checklist. The borough expects to receive $1.3 million in state aid in 2010. Municipalities throughout New Jersey were provided with the checklist and were required to fill…
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Foundation’s fundraising efforts off to good start
New organization was founded to provide opportunities in Manalapan-Englishtown K-8 BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer With reductions to school funding resulting in cutbacks to many school programs, the Foundation for Manalapan-Englishtown Regional Schools (MERS), in its inaugural year, has been working diligently to raise funds to offer students much-needed support. Foundation officials said about $50,000…
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Library will honor chef Dennis Foy
The Monmouth County Library will honor one of the nation’s foremost chefs, New Jersey’s own Dennis Foy, in a special program on Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan. According to a press release, Foy is aptly known as a founding father of American Cuisine, and has…
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District likely to hold funds until 2011-12
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — The Freehold Borough K-8 School District will receive $305,687 from the U.S. Education Jobs Fund, according to Patrick De George, the district’s business administrator and board secretary. DeGeorge said the Freehold Borough Board of Education has received a recommendation from Superintendent of Schools Elizabeth O’Connell to hold…
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Police investigating stabbing of two males
FREEHOLD — Police are investigating the apparent stabbing of two Hispanic males that occurred in front of the Rug Mill Towers apartment complex on Jackson Street, Freehold Borough, in the early-morning hours of Oct. 11. Officers were called to the scene at 12:54 a.m. Police headquarters are in the Rug Mill Towers. According to Freehold…
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Halloween greetings
Freehold Intermediate School eighth-grader Shannon McNulty paints a Halloweenthemed scene on the window of a store at the Borough Plaza shopping center on Broad Street, Freehold Borough, Oct. 13. JEFF GRANIT staff
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Apple and pumpkin festival aids children
COLTS NECK — The Ashley Lauren Foundation will host the second annual Apple and Pumpkin Festival on Nov. 6 at the Bucks Mill Recreation Area, Bucks Mill Road, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival will feature a Scottish- American highland games competition, a Civil War encampment, cider press demonstrations, blacksmithing and woodworking. There…
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Museum of contemporary art to debut with benefit
The New Jersey Museum of ContemporaryArt (NJ MoCA) will present its inaugural exhibition — “It’s All American” — on Oct. 23 at a benefit cocktail gala and after party at the historic Paramount Theatre and Convention Hall Mezzanine in Asbury Park. The evening will celebrate NJ MoCA’s entrance onto the cultural world stage and establish…
