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  • Around Town

    Oh no! There’s a pack of teenagers coming your way! Amy Rosen “Ups and downs are always inevitable due to varied personalities and opinions. The key is how you choose to work things out.” Recently, my husband and I had the pleasure of escorting about 27 teenagers to Washington, D.C. When told we were chaperoning…

  • Belle Karp

    Belle Karp, 93, of Englishtown, died April 28, 2007, at Applewood Estates, Freehold. Born in Russia, she had settled in the United States in 1914, residing in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Englishtown 25 years ago. She was a bookkeeper in the garment industry. Mrs. Karp was predeceased by her husband, Murray Karp, in 1963.…

  • Coda

    No reason for neighbors to go to their beds hungry Greg Bean Although I’m in a business where most people don’t get rich, my working wife and I have managed to raise three kids, put food on the table and keep a roof over our heads. And while there have been plenty of times when…

  • Vivian Schmeling

    Mrs. Schmeling, 91, of Swainton, Cape May County, died April 28, 2007, at her son’s home in Swainton. She was born in Matawan and had lived in Holmdel before moving to The Villages, Howell, in 1986. A graduate of Matawan High School, she was a lifelong administrative assistant and spent the past 40 years of…

  • Rider grad making name as middle school teacher

    Emily Cappiello Although Emily Wikoff Cappiello of Allentown is in her first year as a teacher at Timberlane Middle School in Pennington, she felt well prepared for the transition from academe. Cappiello is a graduate of Manalapan High School and is the daughter of James and Maryann Wikoff. She graduated from Rider University in May…

  • Evelina “Pina” D. Wilbourn-Townes

    Mrs. Wilbourn-Townes, 49, of Freehold, died April 29, 2007, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in Long Branch, she was a longtime resident of the Matawan-Aberdeen-Cliffwood area before moving to Freehold in 1982. Mrs. Wilbourn-Townes had been employed at Sunshine Biscuit, Sayreville, until 1998, when the plant moved out of state. She graduated from…

  • Students showcase musical talent for township seniors

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Enhancing the relationship between the senior citizen community and the elementary and middle schools, Eisenhower Middle School students performed for seniors at the Freehold Township Senior Center, Jackson Mills Road, on April 18. Students sang and played various instruments during the recital under the direction of music teachers Christine Feldman and Jesse…

  • Stephen Cullen

    Mr. Cullen, 83, of Jackson, died April 29, 2007, at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he had lived there until moving to Freehold Township in 1985. He moved to Jackson in 2006. Mr. Cullen was a service technician for General Electric, Brooklyn, for more than thirty years, retiring in 1984. He was a World War…

  • Language arts honors program to be offered

    BY VICTORIA HURLEY-SCHUBERT Staff Writer BY VICTORIA HURLEY-SCHUBERTStaff Writer MARLBORO – A language arts honors program will be offered to middle school students beginning in September. “The purpose of the program is to provide a challenging language arts program for those exceptional students in area of language arts,” said Karen Kondek, supervisor of language arts…