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  • FRHSD seniors say farewell

    The world awaits the Freehold Regional High School District graduates of 2011 as they embark on a path of higher education, military service or a career. Graduation ceremonies were held simultaneously at all six FRHSD schools on the evening of June 20. Colts Neck High School said farewell to 386 seniors. The school did not…

  • Bertha Spevak

    Mrs. Spevak, 87, of Manalapan, died June 16, 2011, at Centrastate Medical Center, Freehold Township. She was raised on a farm and later owned a small poultry farm. Prior to her retirement in 1992, Mrs. Spevak was a school bus driver for the Manalapan-Englishtown School District for 34 years. She was predeceased by her husband,…

  • Gosh, the truck used to be big enough

    ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH We went out on a limb this past week and treated the Black Hills of South Dakota to five days of the Clinches. Yessir, there’s nothing like a bout with the Clinch clan to get a national park to rise to the occasion. The planning of a camping trip…

  • Martin Anzalone

    Mr. Anzalone, 75, of Keyport, died June 7, 2011, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. He resided inAberdeen for 40 years, before moving to Keyport. Mr. Anzalone, a graduate of Pratt University, worked in advertising as a graphic designer. He is survived by three sons, David Anzalone of Matawan, Adam Anzalone and his wife, Sabrina, of…

  • Some things are better left unread

    IN THE NEWS MARK ROSMAN No one, to my knowledge, has ever compared, or is likely to compare, Howell Township to Camelot, and I think about a line from the classic movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” when news comes out of that busy western Monmouth County municipality. With just a minor modification I…

  • Walter J. Carney Jr.

    Mr. Carney, 80, of Matawan, died June 9, 2011, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. He was a high school guidance counselor for Marlboro High School, retiring in 1986. A veteran of the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Mr. Carney was a graduate of LSU and received a master’s degree from Montclair State University. He…

  • Sheila Barbesh

    Mrs. Barbesh, 74, of Manalapan, formerly of Freehold, died May 29, 2011, at home. Her family owned and operated the Freehold Pharmacy for 70 years. She received a bachelor’s degree in fashion merchandising from Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., in 1958. Mrs. Barbesh was predeceased by her husband, Leonard Barbesh; a brother, Dr. William Sosnow; and…

  • This’ll make you view the neighbors in a new light

    GREG BEAN Here’s the tale of my only near brush with the fame that sometimes comes to people who witness mob violence firsthand: It was a sunny June morning in 1989, and I was the editor of an alternative newspaper serving the North Shore of Boston. My mother had been visiting, and I was driving…

  • Virginia Rae Bader

    Mrs. Bader, 66, of Freehold, died June 16, 2011, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in Brooklyn, she resided in Freehold for the past 40 years. Surviving are her husband, Barry; two daughters and sons-in-law, Darra andDavid Lipper of Manalapan and Lisa and Paul Vick of Basking Ridge; a brother and sister-in-law, Tom and…