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  • Legislation would permit restricted driver’s license

    The proposed New Jersey Senate Bill S-2427 would permit a restricted driver’s license for persons suspended for driving while intoxicated so they would to be able to drive to work. The license would be used exclusively for traveling to and from the licensee’s place of employment or education when other transportation is not available, and…

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    Amy Segen of Howell, a behavioral health major at Alvernia University, Reading, Pa., spent spring break working to help others in Tennessee through the college’s “Alternative Break” program. John McNulty of Manalapan has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the Rutgers Business School, Newark. The Honor Society of Phi Kappa…

  • Playing the blame game over school tax increases

    CODA GREG BEAN News out of East Brunswick about the school tax rate was a real kick in the teeth to homeowners whose taxes support the community’s school district, and could be to anyone across the state who has seen the value of their home diminished significantly as a result of the rotten economy of…

  • The cicadas are coming

    GUEST COLUMN MICHELE S. BYERS The last time “Brood II” hatched, Bill Clinton was in the White House, Justin Bieber was in diapers, and there was no Google, Facebook, Twitter or Wikileaks! Brood II are periodical cicadas (the genus Magicicada), which emerge only once every 13 or 17 years. This brood has been snoozing underground…

  • Pupils learn important lessons about animals

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — A group of students in the Freehold Borough K-8 School District’s 21st Century Program were treated to an afternoon visit from several certified pet therapy dogs on March 22. The dogs taught the children a valuable lesson — that animals have feelings. Reilly, a pit bull, Lily,…

  • Board confirms Angelozzi as Manalapan principal

    FRHSD superintendent says tenure case against Simon cost about $350,000 BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer The dust is beginning to settle after more than a year of uncertainty in the administrative ranks of Manalapan High School. At its April 8 meeting, the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education voted to change the status…

  • Student lands leading role

    Kelsey Seaman of Howell is playing Hope Harcourt in Phoenix Productions’ presentation of “Anything Goes,” which concludes this weekend at the Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank. Kelsey is a student at the Fine and Performing Arts Academy at Howell High School. She has been a member of the All- Shore Chorus from 2010 to 2012…