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  • Freehold High School Hall of Fame inductees to be honored

    FREEHOLD — The newest inductees into the Freehold High School Hall of Fame will be honored in a celebration to be held at 5:30 p.m. April 23 at the American Hotel. Tickets are $50 per adult. For tickets, contact Jerrilynn Acevedo at 732-431-8360. Tickets must be purchased by April 14. The honorees are:  Former…

  • Freehold Borough K-8 budget totals $24.5M

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Correspondent FREEHOLD — The Freehold Borough K-8 School District Board of Education has adopted a tentative budget of $24.5 million for the 2015-16 school year. A public hearing on the budget will be held in the Park Avenue Elementary School cafetorium at 7 p.m. April 27. “To address under-adequacy in state…

  • Monmouth fire academy graduates new firefighters

    The Monmouth County Fire Academy, Howell, recently graduated 46 firefighters from the Firefighter I program. Graduates were divided into two classes: Class 104 and Class 105. Both ceremonies were held at the fire academy earlier this year. Graduates worked 188 hours over 30 sessions and received training in rescue; fire extinguishment; hazardous materials response; cardiopulmonary…

  • Howell K-8 school board adopts $114.9M budget

    By TAYLOR M. LIER Staff Writer HOWELL — Ron Sanasac, the business administrator of the Howell K-8 School District, said the tentative budget the board has adopted for the 2015-16 school year is a “work in progress.” “We are ensuring that the budget is going to have long-term sustainability for the district and we are…

  • Marlboro school budget includes new positions

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN and MARK ROSMAN Staff Writers MARLBORO — Several new positions will be added to the Marlboro K-8 School District as part of the 2015-16 school year budget. The new positions are two math facilitators (one at each middle school); two data specialists (one for English language arts and one for math); one…

  • Soil district to award college scholarships

    The Freehold Soil Conservation District will award three $2,000 scholarships in the summer of 2015 to students majoring in a conservation-related field. The Neal Munch, Mac Clark and Bill Schauer scholarships are awarded annually to honor their years of dedicated and distinguished service to conservation and to the Freehold Soil Conservation District, according to the…

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    MATT DENTON Easter cupcakes are ready to be served following the Millstone Township Easter Egg Hunt at Wagner Farm on March 28.

  • Sports serve an important purpose for youths

    I take strong issue with the nonsensical letter to the editor that was published in the March 12 edition of this newspaper entitled “Competitive Sports Reject the Golden Rule.” The author of the letter explained that competitive sports are a rejection of the Golden Rule and that politicians and religious groups have yet to catch…

  • Writer offers defense for board member

    I would like to take this opportunity to say a word in defense of Victoria Dean, since even those who voted against asking for her resignation from the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education did not seem to support her right to strongly disagree with the idea of closing Marlboro’s schools for the Chinese…