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  • Friendship Circle seeking volunteers to help youths

    The Friendship Circle is inviting any teenager from eighth grade and up to its sensitivity training for new volunteers and a refresher course for previous volunteers. The training will be held on Sept. 14 from 7-8:45 p.m. The teens will learn about sensitivity to the needs of children who have special needs. The training will…

  • Pedestrian’s death lands driver, 39, in prison

    On Aug. 27, Dineshkumar Patel, 39, of Ocean Township, was sentenced to a three-year state prison term for the second degree crime of knowingly leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in death. The charge stems from a fatal motor vehicle vs. pedestrian hit-and-run collision which occurred during the early morning hours of…

  • Photo

    A Marlboro High School ball carrier gets smacked by a Colts Neck High School defender during a scrimmage Sept. 2 in Marlboro. Both teams will open the 2010 football season this week. For more, see Sports and Photo Galleries at www.gmnews.com. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Monmouth Museum hosts Anique Taylor exhibit

    The Monmouth Museum is hosting “New Jersey Emerging Artists Series — Anique Taylor: Mixed Media.” The exhibition, which will run through Sept. 19, features mixed media sculptures rich in color and detail that are psychological portraits of women in various stages of their lives. “Uncertain Spring” Taylor uses a variety of media, including paint, colored…

  • Firemen gather voters’ signatures

    Freehold Borough group seeking to establish a fire district in town BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Firefighters in Freehold Borough are in the process of going door to door to solicit signatures on a petition that supports the establishment of a fire district in town. Michael Burtt, a former chief of the Freehold Fire…

  • A last look at summer fun

    Lauren Stoltzfus, 2, explores the Colts Neck Country Fair on Aug. 19. Check out those shades! Andrew Shockley gets blasted during water wars at the Freehold Township Recreation Department summer camp on Aug. 6. The camp was held at Michael J. Tighe Park, Freehold Township. Elvis Presley impersonator Keith Gipson greets patrons at the Colts…

  • Board does not act on plan for winter track

    Sept. 13 FRHSD meeting scheduled for discussion on pay-to-participate model BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Aplan to offer winter track and field as a pay-to-participate sport in the Freehold Regional High School District was put on hold by the district’s Board of Education on Aug. 30. Action on the pay-to-participate proposal for winter track and…

  • Marlboro Scouts attend Jamboree

    MARLBORO — On July 25 seven Scouts from Boy Scout Troop 86 of Marlboro left for Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, to attend the 17th National Scout Jamboree for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The Troop 86 members joined the Monmouth Council contingent of 100 Scouts and 16 leaders participating in this special event. Since…

  • In words and drawings, soldiers leave their mark in time

    Vietnam Graffiti Project tells story of soldiers en route to Vietnam BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer Vietnam veteran Dan O’Leary still remembers the day he departed from the western shores of the United States on a packed troopship to Vietnam, a 7,000-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean almost 45 years ago. Art Beltrone, co-curator, prepares…