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  • Your Turn

    Guest ColumnDr. Fred M. JacobsScience supports call to bansmoking in N.J. restaurants Your Turn Guest Column Dr. Fred M. Jacobs Science supports call to ban Guest Column Dr. Fred M. Jacobs Science supports call to ban smoking in N.J. restaurants Would you take your family to eat in the middle of a chemical factory? Or…

  • Vote to abstain on plan shows no leadership

    What has transpired in Marlboro would be funny if it were not so sad. When the Democrats gained control of the Township Council they bragged how they would make Marlboro "better, not bigger." I do not think the voters thought that "better" meant approving a use variance that enables a housing development to be built…

  • Resident offers an update on Marlboro’s municipal maneuvering

    It’s time to make the township citizenry mindful of the contemporary crop of sinuous "municipal shticks" imposed upon Marlboro rank and file by two contrived "collateral damage" governmental scenarios. These tomfoolery actions make it appropriate to establish a "township homeland security program" protecting us from agenda-driven maneuvers now taking on a life of their own…

  • Resident looks up to find the farm next door will be gone

    This is written to the residents of Manalapan and all of those in a similar situation. When my family moved to this area one of the most important reasons was that it was suburban. We weren’t in the city or even Staten Island, where houses border each other with no grass in between. This surely…

  • Our View

    Newspaper Our View Newspaper’s policies for political letters updated Newspaper’s policies for political letters updated With election time quickly approaching and letters regarding local candidates for office already streaming into the newsroom, we would like to alert our readers about the policies we have in place for our opinion page. We will not publish letters…

  • Relay for Life an important event in fight against cancer

    The American Cancer Society Relay for Life movement has swept across Freehold and surrounding communities. The cancer survivors, caregivers, family and friends who participated in Relay for Life at Freehold Raceway on June 7 were joined by hundreds of thousands more across the country. Throughout the United States, Relay for Life participants joined together with…

  • Obituaries

    Obituaries JOSEPH J. STRANO, 65, of Atlantic Highlands died July 21 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. Born in Newark, he resided in Holmdel prior to moving to Atlantic Highlands five years ago. He was a professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, since 1959, and received its Excellence in Teaching Award…

  • Our View

    Administrators don Our View Administrators don’t have much time to sell project Administrators don’t have much time to sell project Administrators in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District will have their work cut out for them as soon as the summer vacation ends. There will not be a lot of time for Board of Education members…

  • Jewish Federation welcomes cease-fire pact

    The Jewish Federation of Greater Monmouth County, the umbrella organization for the organized Jewish community in Monmouth, welcomes the cease-fire agreement brokered by [Palestinian] Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. We urge him to move quickly to dismantle all terrorist groups as mandated by the "Road Map to Peace." As President George W. Bush and Secretary of…