Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Maybe it’s time for Manalapan, Marlboro to leave FRHSD
I attended the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education meeting on Jan. 28 in order to learn more about the proposed redistricting. Statistics provided at the meeting disclosed the following information: • There are problems with overcrowding in two schools, specifically Manalapan and Marlboro high schools. • There is room for additional students…
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Resident baffled over closing of medical center program
I believe there is a health-care mistake in the making. The issue to which I refer is the Rehabilitation Cardiovascular Fitness Program at Freehold Township’s CentraState Medical Center in which seniors have been participating for years. Now we are told to go find another setting, to work out on our own or at the local…
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Careless dog owners spoil neighborhoods for everyone
With spring approaching, I think it’s a good time to remind people that along with owning a dog comes a sense of responsibility and respect for other people’s property. My puppy has been given a spot in the yard that he is brought to a few times a day. I think it is disgraceful some…
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Officials should cut spending instead of raising taxes
It’s mind-boggling to come across a taxpayer — not a politician — who: a) advocates a tax increase and expansion; 2) doesn’t fully understand how that increase will affect the general population; 3) perceives it as a way to reduce the state’s budget deficit. In his Jan. 9 letter to the editor, Sidney Alpert blames…
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Those who serve the public good are truly appreciated
On Jan. 10 we were leaving a friend’s apartment on Covered Bridge Boulevard in the Covered Bridge II senior condominium association in Manalapan. The time was about 8:30 p.m. and to our dismay, a man was lying unconscious at the bottom of the steps — possibly having suffered a heart attack. With a call to…
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New school welcomes pupils Wemrock Brook School will house 546 children in grades four, five, six
Staff Writer By dave benjamin New school welcomes pupils Wemrock Brook School will house 546 children in grades four, five, six MANALAPAN — The Wemrock Brook School, Millhurst Road, was expected to open its doors to 546 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders yesterday morning. Administrators in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District had hoped to open the…
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Early end to game is not fair for Manalapan youngsters
At 5 p.m. on Jan. 26 with three minutes left on the clock at my son’s basketball game, Manalapan rec staff and Clark Mills School custodial staff shut down the game and asked everyone to leave the Clark Mills gym. It seems that they are only contracted to work until 5 p.m. This is unconscionable…
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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. JEANNETTE BEERS WELLINGTON, 79, of Jackson, formerly of East Brunswick, died Jan. 8 in Jackson Healthcare Center, Jackson. Mrs. Wellington was born in Newark and lived in…
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Public discussion needed on panel’s recommendation
Public discussion needed on panel’s recommendation A committee made up of staff members and administrators from the Freehold Regional High School District, as well as citizens from the district, has concluded that in order to accommodate the district’s increasing enrollment a seventh high school must be constructed. The committee is recommending that the new school…
