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Wine-tasting event will benefit charity
Colts Neck Lions address blindness that is preventable and curable BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent COLTS NECK — Enjoy wine, music and food at the third annual wine tasting benefit sponsored by the Colts Neck Chapter of the Lions Club to treat preventable blindness. The event will be held at the Colts Neck community center in…
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Federal funding sought to deal with water woes
MARLBORO — Municipal officials are answering the federal government’s “Economic Recovery Program for 2009 Call for Projects” and are looking to obtain some stimulus funding to help with the Marlboro Multi-Watershed Restoration/Protection Project. At its April 30 meeting the Township Council unanimously passed a resolution authorizing a professional services agreement between Birdsall Engineering and Marlboro.…
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Plan for eight homes gets Howell go-ahead
BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer HOWELL — After three years of hearings, the Howell Planning Board has voted to approve the subdivision application of Bel-Aire Estates, a nine-lot property along Friendship Road. The 6.7-acre parcel will be divided into eight lots for residential development and one lot for storm water management purposes. The project has…
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Multimedia show features Hambletonian
The Hambletonian, America’s richest trotting race, is featured in a multimedia museum exhibit in the historic town of Cranbury, Middlesex County, where the Hambletonian Society office relocated four years ago. The exhibit, “The Hambletonian: Its Trotters, Their Connections and the Racing Event 1926-2009,” features trophies, posters, memorabilia, ephemera and photographs from the 84 editions of…
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Rec center expansion to be dedicated May 16
BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — Township officials have announced that the new expansion to the Manalapan Recreation Center, Route 522, will be dedicated in a ceremony to be held at 1 p.m. May 16. Speaking at the April 22 meeting of the Township Committee, Mayor Richard Klauber said officials will also recognize the…
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Knowledge Beginnings gains board’s approval
Approval conditioned on suitability of detention basin BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Knowledge Beginnings has received Planning Board approval to construct a 9,975-square-foot child care facility with an outdoor play area at the corner of Route 79 and Old Mill Road. The facility will be on a 3-acre lot. The property is owned…
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Woman dies on Route 18
MARLBORO — A resident of Hillsborough, Somerset County, who had exited her vehicle was struck in a lane of traffic on Route 18 on April 21 and died later that same day of injuries she sustained in the incident. Marlboro police said that at about 4:30 p.m., Stefanie Graham, 36, pulled her vehicle onto the…
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Officers are on time to deliver early baby
Freehold Twp. policemen had all the right training to assist local couple BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Four township police officers made a new friend on April 7. His name is Kian Esmalla and the four officers helped to bring the 6-pound, 12- ounce baby boy into the world. Calling the…
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Bomb threat suspect arrested
BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer HOWELL — A suspect has been apprehended in connection with a series of phoned-in bomb threats to the Wal-Mart department store on Route 9 south at Lanes Mill Road. Brian Chadwick, 29, whose address was given as the Moon Motel, Route 9, was arrested at about 2:45 p.m. April 21…
