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  • Hitting the right note

    CHRIS KELLY staff Manalapan High School marching band member Melanie Penney, 17, plays her bass guitar during a performance prior to the start of the Braves’ football game at Middletown North High School on Oct. 6.

  • Towns should be responsible for deer pick-up

    Was the deer who came dashing across my path last week as I was driving on Route 520 in Marlboro on his way to a rendezvous with some lovely young doe? Just missing him, I stopped to again marvel at the carnal drives that energize deer. Presently a battle rages by three political combatants –…

  • Manalapan candidate should have been aware of sign regulations

    I chuckled after reading Larry Furman’s letter to the editor about Nikki (Pezzullo’s) signs, first because of the similarity of our names, and then because of the similarity of our views. Mr. Furman uses some strong language in his letter, stating that Nikki’s signs “violated the law” and were “illegal.” Accordingly, I did some fact…

  • Resident supports Walsh, Dalton, Howell for council

    Once again the Republican “insiders” in Howell are spreading untruthful statements. I guess the election campaign, or silly season as I call it, has begun. In Howell it’s the Republicans vs. the Independents. The “insiders” are using the strategy of the last election, which by the way they lost, not directly but indirectly through people…

  • Coda

    Even if we build it, they’ll still come Greg Bean As communities in central New Jersey like Freehold Borough and Lakewood struggle with the thorny problems arising from illegal immigration, about the only solace we can take is that the federal government is doing an even worse job of finding a solution than we are.…

  • Obituaries

    Joel Opatut Mr. Opatut, 82, of the West End section of Long Branch, died Sept. 23 at home. He was a Holocaust survivor, as were his three brothers. Born in Szadek, Poland, he arrived in the United States with his wife and son in 1949. He and his brothers purchased a chicken farm in Freehold,…

  • Are We There Yet?

    Mom feels pretty smug, but it is short-lived Lori Clinch I haven’t always enjoyed going to a supercenter. No sir, back in the day when the boys were young, a trip to the supercenter was the anatomical equivalent of having my eyebrows plucked during a root canal. My boys were like hellions in the produce…

  • Towns may use county contract for deer pickup

    Freehold Borough FREEHOLD – In view of a ruling over who is responsible for removing dead deer from local roads, Monmouth County officials are urging all municipalities requiring this service to take advantage of a contract the county awarded to a vendor who will charge $55 per dead deer. On Sept. 26, the state’s Council…

  • Superintendent search will be on board agenda

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer MANALAPAN – The Manalapan-Englishtown School Board was scheduled to have a special meeting Thursday evening aimed at starting the search for a new schools superintendent. School board President Anthony Manisero said that since current Superintendent of Schools Maureen Lally has informed the board she will leave…