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  • Howell named model school for arts education in state

    Howell High School, home to the Freehold Regional High School District Fine and Performing Arts Academy, has been named a model school for arts education as part of the New Jersey Model Schools in the Arts Project. Only 12 other high schools in the state received this honor, according to a press release. The New…

  • One more failing grade on the federal math test

    Coda Coda • GREG BEAN I was in my senior year of college when I got called to the administrator’s office for some bad news.   Seems that in almost four years of higher education, I had managed to avoid passing a single math class. Sure, I’d started several but dropped before the failing grade…

  • School board or prosecutor should have dealt with supt.

    Each time I see an article about the continuing saga of Freehold Regional High School District Superintendent of Schools James Wasser, I ask myself which of the inmates is running the asylum. Now the FRHSD Board of Education has issued a subpoena to try to identify those contributors to a website that contained criticisms of…

  • Friends in life & death

    In the News • MARK ROSMAN Can you imagine doing something in your life that leaves such an impression on people that they refuse to forget you, even 60 years after you have died? Philip Reynolds, a native of Freehold, never walked on the streets of his hometown after the age of 20. Yet, there…

  • Local leaders seem intent on costing taxpayers more money

    As I read about the inability of Manalapan Police Chief Stuart Brown and Manalapan Township Committeewoman Michelle Roth to reach a settlement regarding Brown’s one-day suspension for him referring to her in a “hostile” way by calling her “lady,” I couldn’t help making the connection to another situation we are all familiar with, the Freehold…

  • Nothing to eat? There’s always Jell-O!

    Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH I loathe buying groceries. With a household of growing boys, a hungry man and one famished dog, it’s impossible for the average shopper to keep up. I stock up in the produce section, pack in the meat from the butcher and don’t get me started on what it…

  • Steps must be taken now to halt Iran’s nuclear path

    The international community should feel very afraid right now. A nuclear Iran is a major threat, not just to Israel, which is bad enough as it is, but to the entire world. Until Iran halts its nuclear program, every country should stop doing business with companies that supply refined petroleum to Iran. Due to a…

  • Resident is starting to question his vote

    Recently there was a story on News 12 whereby Marlboro Mayor Jon Hornik seemed to use his influence as mayor to stop a fundraiser for the Republican candidates opposing his friends on the Marlboro Township Council. In the story, Mayor Hornik did not deny the allegation and used some very “lame” excuse about how he…