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  • Mary McMorrow

    Mrs. McMorrow, 92, of Monroe, died Jan. 30, 2010, in The Manor, Freehold Township. She was predeceased by her husband, John Reilly McMorrow; a daughter, Margaret Gribben; a son, John Reilly McMorrow Jr.; four brothers; and three sisters. Surviving are a son and daughter in-law, William and Rosanny; two daughters and sons-in-law, Elizabeth and Thomas…

  • New Jersey racetracks need slots right now

    However you look at it, the state of New Jersey must allow the installation of slot machines at our horse racing tracks. We must catch up with surrounding state competition and install these slot machines at once or face doing nothing and losing our state’s horsemen’s futures, open space, farmland and other agriculture jobs, revenue…

  • Help available for teenagers who are in a tough situation

    On Jan. 28 the U.S. Senate passed a resolution designating February as National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. This is an important acknowledgment of a situation that deserves the community’s full attention. It has never been more difficult to be a teenager on the dating scene. The very means of communication that help…

  • Looks like we survived the ‘storm of the decade’

    Coda • GREG BEAN By the time this column sees print, the Great Blizzard of 2010, nicknamed “Snowpocalypse” by some creative member of the national press, will just be a memory. You know, before we moved to the East Coast, I used to believe that folks out here were scared of only one thing, and…

  • Students get dose of reality at school’s hunger banquet

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent COLTS NECK — The eighth-grade class at the Cedar Drive Middle School expected to attend a school assembly on Jan. 14, but instead of watching an assembly the pupils participated in a surprise banquet — a hunger banquet. According to Ileen Stoner, the Colts Neck K-8 School District service learning coordinator,…

  • On Campus

    Kristina M. Berg of Freehold has been named to the deans’ list at the State University of New York, College at Oswego. She is a sophomore majoring in zoology. Hollie Ann Hubbs, the daughter of Tina and Harold Hubbs of Howell, has earned a spot on the dean’s list for the fall semester at High…

  • Chad Michael Horne

    Mr. Horne, 22, of Freehold Township, died Jan. 28, 2010, in Bethlehem, Pa., from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was a graduate of Freehold High School, and had been working toward a degree in political science at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft. Mr. Horne had completed an internship at Disney World and was planning…

  • John Steven Hancheck Jr.

    Mr. Hancheck, 77, a resident of Manalapan for 42 years, died Jan. 22, 2010, at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold Township. Before retiring he was employed at Keystone Plastics in South Plainfield and then Unlimited Auto in Keyport. Mr. Hancheck was a communicant of St. Gabriel’s Roman Catholic Church, Marlboro. Surviving are his wife of…

  • Bernard “Benny” W. McDermott

    Mr. McDermott, 80, of Howell, died Jan. 29, 2010, at Bartley Healthcare, Jackson. He was born in Queens, N.Y., and had lived in West Palm Beach, Fla., and Iron Mountain, Mich., prior to settling in Howell in 1990. He had owned Benny’s Janitorial Service in Iron Mountain, Mich., and owned and operated Atomic Power Washing…