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Colts Neck students to appear on ‘Challenge’
All-star student scholars from Colts Neck High School will challenge Vernon Township High School in the first round of the 11th season of Cablevision’s “The Challenge,” an academic quiz show designed to test students’ knowledge in a Jeopardy-style format. The first-round match-up between Colts Neck and Vernon Township will air exclusively on News 12 New…
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Election winners are committed to serving community
We would like to take this time to thank all of the voters of Freehold Borough for their continued support on our recent election victory. Your votes ensure us another term to serve this town. It is our mission to continue to strive and do what is best for this town in the years to…
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Max Spanover
Mr. Spanover, 90, of Manalapan, died Dec. 19, 2007, at home. Born in New York City, he had lived in the Bronx, N.Y., and Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Manalapan 34 years ago. Mr. Spanover was an accountant with the Veterans Administration, Brooklyn, for a number of years, retiring many years ago. He later became…
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Thomas J. Ferrell
Mr. Ferrell, 44, of Freehold Township, died Dec. 31, 2007, at home. He was born in Neptune Township and was a lifelong resident of Freehold Township. A graduate of The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in Florida, Mr. Ferrell was a designer for his firm, Ferrell Media, located in Freehold Township. He was predeceased by…
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Time to take care of people here at home
Last night I was out walking my dog, it was around 11 p.m., raining cats and dogs and very, very cold. Recently there were two news stories that I heard on the radio, the first being that 80 percent of the homeless on the streets of New York City are veterans and that the number…
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School enrollment holding steady in Marlboro district
BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO- Pupil enrollment for the 2008-09 school year in Marlboro’s schools is projected to remain generally flat, according to Assistant Superintendent Marc Gaswirth. A presentation of the K-8 school district’s enrollment projections was offered during the Board of Education’s workshop meeting on Dec. 11. In a subsequent telephone interview, Gaswirth…
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Getting the job done
In a May 23, 2007, editorial, the News Transcript made the following statement: “Is it reasonable to assume that legislation proposed by Democrats from New Jersey will ever find the support it needs to make it through Congress and gain the signature of a Republican president of the United States? Perhaps not.” It turns out…
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Baseball has lost its appeal to the inner 8-year-old child
Iam writing in regard to the recently issued Mitchell report concerning the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and its possible impact on the fans. With baseball being a sport where the statistics of one era are used to compare the efforts of players to another era, (part of the “integrity” so often spoken of),…
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K-8 district may profit from sale of old school
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD – A local landmark that has been in a state of disrepair for years may be brought back to life in the near future. The brick building on Bennett Street that was first a school and later housed the town’s police department has been vacant for several years…
