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  • For the Record

    A municipality’s total debt load is computed based on the equalized assessed value average over the past three years. Manalapan by law may have a total debt load as high as 3.5 percent of that amount. Manalapan’s average equalized assessed value for 2005, 2006 and 2007 is $5,716,900,825. Manalapan’s total current debt load is one-quarter…

  • Ah’ sai Ha’mere Woolfolk

    Ah’ sai Ha’mere Woolfolk, a 2-month-old child of Shaniece Whiting and Art Woolfolk Jr. of Freehold, died Aug. 31, 2008. He is also survived by a sister, Shiandria Woolfolk; two brothers, Asaivion Whiting and Ah’sere Whiting; his paternal grandparents, Yvette Whiting and Betty Butts and her husband, Zackery Butts; three uncles, Zackery Butts Jr., Briheem…

  • Memories linger after baseball season’s final out

    It was that time of year again. Spring had just about left us and for most boys in Freehold, it meant that baseball would as well. The Little League season had come to an end and as most of its players left Michael J. Tighe Park after the last game of the season, you couldn’t…

  • Rosario “Joe” Leonardi

    Mr. Leonardi, 88, of Boca Raton, Fla., whose son lives in Morganville, passed away Sept. 12, 2008, at Care One at Holmdel. He lived in Brooklyn for more than 65 years before moving to Boca Raton, Fla., and then to Morganville earlier this year. Mr. Leonardi was a World War II veteran, a Golden Gloves…

  • Drinking age debate important to future of young lives

    Behind the fusillade of faulty arguments proffered by the Amethyst Initiative in support of lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18 lurks an inconvenient truth: doing so would only exacerbate the current epidemic of underage drinking, further jeopardizing young lives at a critical juncture in their physical, social, and emotional development. What we know…

  • Dennis E. Botlick, 64, of Neptune,

    Dennis E. Botlick, 64, of Neptune, died Monday, September 8th at King Manor Nursing home in Neptune. Dennis was born in Patterson, NJ and graduated Hawthorne High School in 1963. He was an avid fisherman and loved the outdoors. Dennis had a gentle smile and had many dear friends. He was predeceased by his parents…

  • A sister’s love, and a bucket of toads

    Are We There Yet? LORI CLINCH Motherhood. It’s certainly not for the faint of heart. Over the years, I’ve watched our boys cover themselves in mud for no apparent reason. I’ve seen them chase birds across the yard, throw rocks at the sky and work tediously and continuously to develop a complicated system of highways…

  • Donna A. See

    Mrs. See, 59, of Hazlet, died Sept. 2, 2008, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was a secretary at Arnold Walter Nursing Home, Hazlet. Prior to that, she was a secretary at Riverview Medical Center for 15 years. She was predeceased by her parents, Annamarie and Julius Muentnick; and a brother, Dennis Mentnich, in…

  • Notice about Red State/Blue State and Coda

    Greater Media Newspapers Executive Editor Greg Bean will be taking a temporary leave from writing both his Coda column and Red State Blue State because of the death of his son Coleman, 25. We will be reprinting some of his past Coda columns, the first of which appears in this week’s paper.