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  • SARAH DiBARTOLO, 92, of Freehold Township, died July 31 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in New York City, she lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Freehold Township in 1977. Mrs. DiBartolo was a homemaker and dressmaker. She was a member of St. Robert Bellarmine Roman Catholic Church and the Mercy Outreach Church,…

  • Local resident attends Johns Hopkins program

    Rachel Fee, 16, of Freehold Township participated in the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth "Geopolitics" program, held recently at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. The daughter of Laurel King and Thomas A. Fee, Rachel is an honors student at Freehold Borough High School. She also is the national youth co-chair for the annual conference…

  • JANE PIENTAK, 74, of Howell, died July 28 in CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Mrs. Pientak was born in New York City and had lived in Queens before moving to the Surrey Downs adult community in Howell in 1995. She was a homemaker. She was a communicant of St. Catherine of Siena Church, Farmingdale, and…

  • Manalapan Democrats have not shown leadership

    Where does the buck stop in Manalapan? Nowhere. I have lived in Manalapan over 25 years and have never seen the township’s leaders concerned more about their political future and less about the welfare of Manalapan residents. They are generally nice people with no leadership ability. Taxpayer money is missing and the response from the…

  • Mayor has served town well and deserves second term

    I have lived in Manalapan for 22 years and have known Rebecca Aaronson for the better part of that time. That is why I feel the need to respond to the letter from Andrew Lucas questioning why Rebecca would run for another term on the Township Committee. In all the years I have lived here,…

  • Resident wants a simple question placed on Nov. ballot

    Resident wants a simple question placed on Nov. ballot The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders (April 11) and the Ocean County Board of Freeholders (April 3) both refused my request to place the following question on their respective county ballots: "Is taxation thievery?" The question consists of only three words, but the impact of a…

  • Park’s name held special meaning for Freehold Township

    Your recent feature article on how the renaming of Liberty Oak Park came about was interesting and enlightening; so much so that it has prompted me to respond. Many township residents, myself included, were startled by the quite literally overnight name change of our most prominent park. Liberty Oak is, with little doubt, one of…

  • School officials need to review increases in spending

    The Marlboro superintendent of schools, Dr. David Abbott, seems to have taken the defeat of the school budget as a personal defeat. Shame on him. As an educated person, he should realize that in these unstable economic times there has to be some belt tightening — a reduction of less than 2 percent in the…

  • Society will benefit when school budgets are supported

    It saddens and angers me when I read about seniors who vote against their town’s school budget merely because they themselves no longer have children in school. Although I now have a 13-year-old and a 17-year-old in our school system, I have always voted to pass the school budget and will continue to do so…