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  • Carol Diane Mulhern

    Mrs. Mulhern, 69, died Sept. 8, 2009. She had lived in Hazlet before retiring to Manchester in 2002. Mrs. Mulhern, an artist and a teacher who worked with special-needs children, was a teacher’s aide with the Hazlet Public School System for eight years. She is survived by her husband, Raymond, of Manchester; her children and…

  • Officials, not TV, should control public comment

    In the News In the News • MARK ROSMAN I have been covering Manalapan municipal meetings since the beginning of the year and at every Township Committee meeting the mayor reads a statement regarding the policies of the Manalapan cable television channel which tapes the meeting for rebroadcast at a later date.   According to…

  • Mary Margaret Walsh McCann

    Mrs. McCann, 58, of Manalapan, died Sept. 19, 2009, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, after a three-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and resided there before moving to Manalapan 28 years ago. Mrs. McCann was a special-education teacher at the Manalapan Englishtown Middle School and a substitute…

  • In the bleachers, comfort trumps style

    Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH You’d be hard pressed to find a woman as classy as my friend Louise. She is always dressed to the nines. Her hair looks great, her clothes are impeccable and her makeup would have a cosmetologist asking for beauty tips. Throw in a pair of slim slacks and…

  • Muriel A. “Honey” Bedell

    Mrs. Bedell, 80, of Howell and formerly of Jackson, died Sept. 24, 2009, at Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. She was a bus aide for Trans Mobility Care, Ocean, for six years, retiring two years ago. Mrs. Bedell was predeceased by her husband, George Bedell, and two children, George and Dawn Bedell. Surviving are two sons,…

  • Thanks to those who reached out after tragedy

    Although the lights in the house at 64 Court St. in Freehold Borough are out and the innocent laughter has been silenced, it is still a home that we miss very much. Even in its irreparable state, our perception of home is even more apparent. We played, we laughed, we cried, we dreamed, did homework…

  • George Pushkal

    Mr. Pushkal, 89, a resident of Freehold Township for 47 years, died Sept. 24, 2009, at Whiting Health Care, Whiting. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, serving with the 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Prior to his retirement in 1983, Mr. Pushkal was employed as a mechanic…

  • Aaaah … early fall!

    Green Scene “One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.” W.E. Johns Iplan out my gardening chores like army maneuvers, inching up, day by day, to the final battle scene: fall cleanup. Predictably, our mature trees give us a bountiful harvest of leaves and most of them, in the…

  • Stosh Janczewski

    Mr. Janczewski, 74, of Freehold Township and formerly of Howell, died at home Sept. 26, 2009, after a battle with ALS and Lyme disease. Born in Gdynia, Poland, Mr. Janczewski served in the U.S. Air Force Reserves and owned and operated “Stosh’s Auto Body” in Farmingdale in the 1960s and 70s. Later he managed several…