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  • Progress continues to be made in Freehold Borough

    My name is Jayne Carr and I have served as the executive director of the Freehold Center Partnership for the past seven years. The partnership is the self-assessing district of downtown Freehold by which the private sector has, with a unanimous vote, invested over $200,000 a year for its economic preservation and development. Anyone who…

  • For the Record

    For the Record The next meeting of Pressing Elected Officials to Preserve our Living Environment (PEOPLE) will be held on April 22 at 7 p.m. at the American Legion, Main Street, Freehold. A letter to the editor that was published in the April 7 News Transcript had an incorrect date for the meeting.

  • Supt.: Freehold Regional High School District works hard to ensure fiscal responsibility

    In response to inaccuracies about the Freehold Regional High School District budget presented in a letter to the editor by David Giffler, I would like assure the residents of our communities that administrators and Board of Education members worked diligently to develop a school budget that is fiscally responsible, keeps the tax levy stable and…

  • Writer offers PAAD information to local residents

    Eight years ago when I moved to Covered Bridge, I introduced a pharmaceutical program called PAAD (Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled) for middle-income and disabled residents residing in New Jersey. This program has been embraced and accepted by the majority, especially in Covered Bridge. Each year, I publish the new amounts. This year,…

  • Union’s demands are out of line in local school district

    I would like to praise the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Board of Education for trying to contain the cost of education (tax) via the contract process. I think the union needs a dose of what real life is about. The business world is and has been contracting its work force. The place I and my…

  • Obituaries

    Louise Delatush Brocklebank Obituaries Louise Delatush Brocklebank Mrs. Brocklebank, 74, of Freehold died April 1 at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. Born in Spring Lake, she was a lifelong Freehold area resident. She was a graduate of Howell Township schools, Freehold Borough High School and Jersey Shore’s Ann May School of Nursing, Neptune, through…

  • New engineer must not have conflicts

    New engineer must not have conflicts New engineer must not have conflicts Marlboro Mayor Robert Kleinberg has said that the April 2 resignation of William Schultz as municipal engineer will give his four-month-old administration a chance to review the structure and performance of the township’s engineering department. Kleinberg said he would ask the Township Council…

  • Amid happiness, time for reflection

    Amid happiness, time for reflection Amid happiness, time for reflection Cpl. Michael E. Curtin It is with pride and happiness that the News Tran-script reports this week on a soldier’s safe homecoming. Jeff Cantor of Marlboro went off to Iraq to serve his country as the United States sought to free the Iraqi people from…