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  • Release of official’s unpublished number was wrong

    I understand, as the wife of an elected official, that the day my husband (Manalapan Committeeman Drew Shapiro) was elected certain things would change. I knew that occasionally … people might come up to me and ask what my husband’s views were on certain issues. It comes with the territory. However, when the local school…

  • Acceptable solution can be found by reasonable people In all the fire and rhetoric, the statistics and nit-picking in the letters about redistricting in the Freehold Regional High School District a few things have emerged for me:

    Acceptable solution can be found by reasonable people In all the fire and rhetoric, the statistics and nit-picking in the letters about redistricting in the Freehold Regional High School District a few things have emerged for me: • Few people in the fray seem to have a sense of history. The original regional solution was…

  • Budget trimming will lower tax hike from 7.5 to 7 cents

    Staff Writer By linda denicola Budget trimming will lower tax hike from 7.5 to 7 cents FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — It appears that members of the Township Committee and the Board of Education will agree on cuts to the board’s 2002-03 budget that will lower a projected 7.5-cent tax increase to 7 cents per $100 of…

  • Lafayette Mills teacher honored

    Staff Writer By dave benjamin DAVE BENJAMIN Toby Karten discusses ideas with Christopher Downing, a fifth-grader at the Lafayette Mills School, Manalapan. Karten has been selected as the New Jersey Council of Exceptional Children’s “Teacher of the Year.” MANALAPAN — A teacher at the Lafayette Mills School has been honored by a group of her…

  • Clark Mills School pupils set sights on Odyssey world title

    Staff Writer By dave benjamin Clark Mills School pupils set sights on Odyssey world title MANALAPAN — A team of third-graders from the Clark Mills School will be heading to the University of Colorado, Boulder, to compete in the Odyssey of the Mind 2002 World Finals from May 22-25. Odyssey of the Mind is an…

  • Words of hate must be heard and answered

    Words of hate must be heard and answered Last week, hate hit very close to home. Fliers promoting anti-minority and anti-Israel sentiments were distributed on cars parked at the park-and-ride lot at Wyckoff Road and Route 9 north in Howell. The fliers were purportedly left by representatives of the National Alliance — described by watchdog…

  • Obituaries

    Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. HELEN MICKEY BROWN, 67, of the Port Monmouth section of Middletown died May 3 at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Born in Jersey City, she resided there until…

  • New Monmouth drug court is expected to provide tangible benefits

    We are pleased that the Superior Court in Mon-mouth County began its Drug Court program on April 1. With the strong support of Assignment Judge Lawrence M. Lawson and with Judge Paul F. Chaiet presiding, Monmouth’s Drug Court hopes to work with at least 110 offenders during its first year. Research demonstrates that drug courts…

  • Information about FRHSD schools was basis of resident’s comments

    During the last several weeks I have read a number of letters to the editor and quotes in news articles which refer to comments I made at a recent Freehold Regional High School District meeting on redistricting. Some of these letters and articles characterized my remarks as ignorant, inflammatory, slanderous and even racist. This was…