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  • A word of advice: Be nice to your mother-in-law

    ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch Summer is the season for weddings. I know this because my refrigerator is full of magnet-attached invitations and the weekends on the calendar are filled. Having been married for lo-many years, I’ve learned a thing or two and would like to offer this bit of advice to all of…

  • Frank J. Muzzicato

    Mr. Muzzicato, 69, of Millstone Township, formerly of Freehold, died July 10, 2013, at home. He was employed as a financial planner/adviser for Investment Center Inc., Bedminster, for many years. He served as mayor, deputy mayor and committeeman from 1989 to 1995 in Millstone Township. Mr. Muzzicato assisted the West Monmouth Baptist Church of Freehold…

  • Eleanor (Dietrich) Maehrlein

    Mrs. Maehrlein, 89, of Freehold Township, died July 14, 2013, at the home she shared with her daughter and her family in Freehold Township. She worked during World War II at Bendix, Teterboro. She wrote the words and music to “New Jersey is the State for Me” for a competition and used it several times…

  • Freeholder: Support open space initiatives

    Drive north from New York into the Catskills and you find yourself in the sources of the Delaware River, where thousands of acres of open land protect the water supply of New York City. People in much of New Jersey have no such protected reserves. For decades, we have paved and built and settled in…

  • Cutting foreign language staff hurts pupils

    I could write this letter, article, rant, whathave you in Spanish. I am confident in my ability to understand and communicate in the language I studied from second through 11th grade. My worry is that my young Marlboro peers cannot, and now will never be able to. Upon learning that the Marlboro K-8 School District…

  • Freehold should receive Monmouth simulcast

    Why in heaven’s name is Monmouth Park racetrack refusing to send a TV signal to Freehold Raceway so that patrons at Freehold might be able to view and bet on Monmouth Park races via simulcast? Surely the people running Monmouth Park are not doing what is in the best interest of the public, but rather…

  • IN THE NEWS

    Dad gets an education about college in 2013 Mark Rosman This is an exciting time for me as the parent of a new high school graduate who is getting ready to head off to college. After 30 years of publishing the On Campus column reporting the accomplishments of other’s people’s children at college, I hope…

  • Pierce R. Capell

    Mr. Capell, 71, of Howell, formerly of Freehold, died July 11, 2013, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Prior to retiring, he was employed as a senior data processor for Monmouth County. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. A funeral Mass was offered at St. Rose of Lima Church, Freehold, followed by interment in Somerset…

  • Legislation could aid Holocaust survivors

    I n this time of political haggling in Washington, D.C., I want to call out an opportunity for our elected officials from across the aisle to come together and do some good for a population increasingly at risk — and at the same time to applaud our leadership in New Jersey for doing just that.…