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  • School administrators to update towns on land search

    ENGLISHTOWN — Representatives of the Land Acquisition Ad Hoc Citizens Advisory Committee of the Freehold Regional High School District will be meeting with municipal representatives in communities across the region. The meetings will be held to discuss the search for land for a possible new high school in the district. Meetings will include school administrators…

  • Samaritan Center says thank you to donors

    In this season of Thanksgiv-ing, Samaritan Center would like to thank all the wonderful people who donated food, gift baskets, turkeys and baked goodies, and made financial contributions to our ministry. Without all of you, we could not help those in need. God bless. Carol Puorro Director Samaritan Center Englishtown

  • Board decides to search for new achievement test

    Staff Writer By dave benjamin Board decides to search for new achievement test ENGLISHTOWN — The usefulness of the Metropolitan Achievement Test has been placed under scrutiny by a team of educators from the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District. In a report to the Board of Education’s Committee of the Whole, Jessica Gent, assistant principal of…

  • County freeholders planning to conduct hearing on recycling facility

    On Dec. 21 the Monmouth County Freeholders will conduct a public hearing on a plan to relocate an existing concrete recycling plant from Amboy Road in Marlboro to a site closer to the Route 520-Tennent Road end of Amboy Road. The applicant wants to relocate to avoid "potential nuisance impacts" to the new Bellemont housing…

  • Pacific Theater veterans will be honored at breakfast on Dec. 24

    Pacific Theater veterans will be honored at breakfast on Dec. 24 While New Jersey now appears to have programs and events to honor the survivors of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and the battles in the European Theater during World War II, we note that there don’t appear to be programs or events…

  • Pacific Theater veterans will be honored at breakfast on Dec. 24

    Pacific Theater veterans will be honored at breakfast on Dec. 24 While New Jersey now appears to have programs and events to honor the survivors of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and the battles in the European Theater during World War II, we note that there don’t appear to be programs or events…

  • Board reviews state’s new graduation requirements

    Staff Writer By dave benjamin HOWELL — The rules for graduation will be changing for students who will be starting high school in September, according to a presentation given to the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education on Dec. 4. "I wasn’t sure if the board was aware of some of the requirements…

  • Retired educators enjoy a homecoming at Howell

    Staff Writer By dave benjamin DAVE BENJAMIN Joseph Callaert Sr., assistant principal at Southern Freehold Regional High School (now Howell High School), who retired June 1983, stands with Ruth Elaine MacIntyre, choir director, who retired October 1999. The pair represent the longest retired staff member and the most recently retired staff member at a luncheon…

  • Parents must make their feelings known about transfer of principals

    The purpose of this letter is to inform all the parents of children who attend the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional Schools that our Board of Education will be voting on a proposal to transfer all of our children’s school principals out of their current positions and into other schools in the district. This vote is scheduled for…