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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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Failure to deposit cash results in guilty plea
On Oct. 14, Izrail Zeygman, 57, of Staten Island, N.Y., appeared in state Superior Court, Freehold, and pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree theft by failure to make required disposition of property. According to a press release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, the charge relates to Zeygman’s conduct while employed by the owner…
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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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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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Monmouth Park needs short-, long-term answers
Locals cautiously optimistic at final gaming summit BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Just days after state legislators held the third and final gaming summit, Oceanport Mayor Michael Mahon sees answers coming soon for the future of the Monmouth Park thoroughbred horse racing track in Oceanport. Mahon, who gave the opening address at the Sept. 29…
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Parents warned of new synthetic marijuana use
BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer The danger of a new synthetic form of marijuana known as Spice or K2, among other things, was the focus of a program recently presented by the Manalapan Englishtown Community Alliance to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Led by Lisa Harmon Mollicone, the coordinator of the alliance, the program was…
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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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Convenience store proposal examined
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer The owner of a gas station and motor vehicle repair center at the intersection of Throckmorton and South streets, Freehold Borough, is seeking municipal approval to convert the repair facility into a convenience store. CLARE MARIE CELANO FREEHOLD — A plan that proposes improvements to a Citgo gas station…
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Manalapan police chief and veteran detective to retire Dec. 31
By Mark Rosman MANALAPAN — Police Chief Stuart Brown and Detective Eric Schmidt, both of whom have worked in the Manalapan Police Department for multiple decades, will retire on Dec. 31. Mayor Andrew Lucas announced the retirements of Brown and Schmidt at the Oct. 13 meeting of the Manalapan Township Committee. He thanked both men…
