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Panel sets deadline for applications
FREEHOLD — The Freehold Borough Neighborhood Pride Committee has announced the deadline for applications for two community projects. The community garden has quite a few plots available for amateur gardeners seeking to create and cultivate flowers, herbs or vegetables in the garden at Ford Avenue and Lloyd Street. Applications for plots need to be filled…
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SAVE wins Air/Climate challenge
Members of Manalapan High School’s Students Against Violating the Environment club (SAVE) won the Air/Climate challenge, sponsored by Lexus and Scholastic, with their Project Blue Sky initiative. The prize from the national contest is $10,000 in scholarships and funds for the school. Project Blue Sky is SAVE’s action plan to benefit the environment of local…
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FRHSD introduces $187M budget
Administrators wait to see how much state aid will be provided in 2010-11 BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Without hard and fast numbers from the governor as to the level of aid that will be delivered from Trenton for the coming school year, the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education has introduced a…
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Marlboro will reapply for grant
MARLBORO — After the state cancelled a grant from 2000 that would have brought improvements to a portion of School Road East, the Marlboro Township Council has authorized a new grant proposal to be submitted for the project. In 2000, Marlboro was the recipient of a New Jersey Department of Transportation Trust Municipal Aid Program…
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Gala of Hope will help fight cancer
Ten years ago a group of Monmouth County women connected by the bonds of friendship and a shared cause came together to organize a fundraiser to fight cancer and support the needs of local cancer patients. Through their hard work, dedication and creativity, the first Gala of Hope benefiting the American Cancer Society’s Jersey Shore…
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Pair charged in connection with murder
Rodney Keys was shot as he sat in a car BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Two men have been arrested and charged with murdering Freehold Borough native Rodney Keys, 39, on Throckmorton Street, Freehold Borough, on May 3, 2008. Monmouth County First Assistant Prosecutor Peter E. Warshaw Jr. said Terrell Ryans, 23, of Trenton,…
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Police search for possible mountain lion in Manalapan
By Rebecca Morton MANALAPAN — When people hear the word cougar nowadays they may think of an older woman on the prowl for a younger man, but in this case there appears to be a real cougar roaming the Manalapan and Marlboro area. On March 11 a male driver called the Manalapan Police Department at…
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Administrators explain meaning of test results
Editor’s note: Due an error in the editing process, this article did not run in its entirety in the March 3 issue of the News Transcript. The article did run in its entirety at www.gmnews.com on March 3. Today, we are publishing the final paragraphs of the article, which deals with Marlboro High School being…
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Museum to exhibit art of mother & daughter
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — “From Generation to Generation: The Enamel Art of Marilyn Druin and Erica Druin,” a spring art exhibit of nearly 50 enamel jewelry, goblets and other art objects created by the late Marilyn Druin and her daughter Erica Druin, will run from March 23 through April 25 at the Jewish Heritage Museum of…
