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  • Michael John “Max” Maxfield

    Mr. Maxfield, 47, of Howell, died Aug. 29, 2010, at home. He was a graduate of Howell High School and had served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a self-employed truck driver. Mr. Maxfield was predeceased by his mother, Suzann Milocik Maxfield; and a brother, Eric John Maxfield. Surviving are his father and second…

  • Doris May Bellis Sleeper

    Mrs. Sleeper, 92, of Freehold Township, died Aug. 23, 2010, at Applewood Estates Healthcare Center, Freehold Township. She was born in Newark and had resided in West Long Branch before moving to Freehold Township. Mrs. Sleeper was a legal secretary before her retirement. During World War II she was a “Rosie the Riveter,” working on…

  • Call her anything but don’t call her ma’am

    CODA GREG BEAN Odds and ends as I pack for the Labor Day weekend. Should we go with flipflops and board shorts, or the rubber Wellies, raincoat and water wings? It’s unfortunate that all the rain expected as I write this will come too late to save my grass and all my expensive decorative plants,…

  • Alexandria “Tessie” L. Vitomski

    Mrs. Vitomski, 94, of Delaware, formerly of Howell, died July 22, 2010. She was predeceased by her husband, Frank, and a sister, Helen Beksi. Surviving are three daughters, Alexandria Vitomski of San Anselmo, Calif., Patricia Vistein of Belmar, and Virginia Sachs of Wilmington, Del.; two brothers, John Lowsky of Charlottesville, Va., and George Lowsky of…

  • Young man states views about Nov. 2 election

    As a young adult these days it is extremely difficult to maintain my political views. It is no falsely backed stereotype to say that most teenagers find themselves as political leftists and liberals. I am a young Republican. Mostly libertarian (with a lower case ‘L’), I have always found it the right of the people…

  • Janet Evanoff

    Mrs. Evanoff, 70, of Howell, previously of Old Bridge, died July 24, 2010, at UMDNJ University Hospital, Newark. Mrs. Evanoff retired in 1995 as a bookkeeper for Standard Confectionary, East Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph Evanoff Sr., and two brothers, Peter Lees and Clement Lees. Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Joseph…

  • Redevelopment project is a good sign for area

    IN THE NEWS MARK ROSMAN Every day on my way to and from the office I pass by a location that gives me some small measure of hope for the future. I look at something that I see all too infrequently these days. What I see is a construction crew hard at work redeveloping and…

  • FRHSD board should take action on asst. supt.

    Just when we thought the Breyer State affair with the Freehold Regional High School District was behind us with the retirement of H. James Wasser as superintendent, it reared its ugly head again at the Aug. 30 FRHSD Board of Education meeting with the reappointment of Donna Evangelista as assistant superintendent of curriculum. She is…