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  • 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…

  • Even the playing field in school negotiations

    Guest Column • Dr. Marc Gaswirth No major political figure in the state today other than perhaps the new governor, Chris Christie, appears ready to tackle and finally act on a significant public policy question. Can hundreds of local school boards without the financial, professional and legal resources available to them effectively compete today at…

  • Kathleen T. Mangan

    Mrs. Mangan, 60, of Wellington, Fla., formerly of Freehold Township, died Feb. 1, 2010, at Wellington Regional Medical Center, Wellington, Fla. She was a beautician for Salon Malise, Wellington. Prior to that, she was employed at Yorktown Salon, Freehold Township, for many years. Surviving are her husband, John R. Mangan; three daughters, Kristin Stelli Emerick…

  • Barbara Griffiths Willis

    Mrs. Willis, 86, a lifelong resident of Freehold Township, died Jan. 18, 2010, at CentraStateMedical Center, Freehold Township. She was employed at the A. & M. Karagheusian Rug Mill, Freehold, and later Foodarama Supermarkets, Freehold. She was predeceased by her husband, George Lawrence “Larry” Willis, in 1994. Surviving are her children, Lawrence and Helen Willis,…