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  • Animal ordinance concerns Marlboro resident

    Attention, pet owners. Did you know that in Marlboro your neighbor has the right to have animal control set traps to take your pets away? I have been taking care of three cats for over 10 years. They are indoor/outdoor cats. They are registered with the township, I have had them spayed/neutered, given them their…

  • Letter impugned integrity of zoning board members

    Having one’s name disparaged in the press is one side effect of being active in municipal politics; however, if a person is to throw political mud in another’s direction, make sure you are throwing for the right reasons. After reading the recent letter signed by Max Brudner (News Transcript, Feb. 25), I was totally offended…

  • Obituaries

    Sidney K. Isaacs Obituaries Sidney K. Isaacs Mr. Isaacs, 77, of Freehold Township died Feb. 16 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was a 60-year resident of Freehold Township, where he had moved to with his parents in the early 1940s when they purchased a family farm. After spending his earlier years working in…

  • State should bite the bullet on bypass exit

    State should bite the bullet on bypass exit State should bite the bullet on bypass exit If the cost to taxpayers wasn’t millions of dollars, it would seem almost comical to report that a highway could be built with two exits and that one of those exits would never open. This must be New Jersey,…

  • Your Turn

    Dolores ForsythGuest ColumnImmigrants deserve to be Your Turn Dolores Forsyth Guest Column Immigrants deserve to be Dolores Forsyth Guest Column Immigrants deserve to be shown compassion in U.S. After reading Herbert Ward’s Feb. 18 Your Turn column regarding Mexican immigrants living and seeking work in Freehold, there is something I realized I must do —…

  • CentraState offers scholarships to volunteers

    CentraState offers scholarships to volunteers The CentraState Associated Auxiliaries Scholarship Program will offer three scholarships this year to community volunteers. Two will be to graduating high school seniors pursuing a career in the health care field. The third scholarship will be awarded to an adult returning to college to pursue a career in the health…

  • Teachers still without pact

    ENGLISHTOWN — The Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Board of Education and the Manalapan-Englishtown Education Association are still waiting for a response from a fact-finder. On Oct. 9, representatives of the 441-member MEEA and the board presented their cases to the state fact-finder. Until a new contract is signed and ratified, teachers in the district will…

  • Teachers, district close in on contract

    Teachers, district close in on contract new contract between the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education and the district’s education association may be close at hand. "The negotiation process started in the early part of the winter and it has been ongoing, Superintendent of Schools James Wasser said. "There appears to be a…

  • School project makes cents

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Pupils at the Laura Donovan School, Stonehurst Boulevard, have been challenged to collect 100 pennies each to mark the 100th day of school. Each class will use this project as a tie-in with the math curriculum through various activities. Students will count, weigh, sort by years minted, estimate amounts, measure and wrap…