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  • A name from the past stirs up mat memories

    In the News Mark Rosman I’m well aware that time marches on, and there isn’t a thing I can do about stopping it, or even slowing it down. I am reminded of that fact every day as I see people I know and love getting older, and, of course, I realize I am being swept…

  • Warshaw promoted to first assistant prosecutor

    BY SUE MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE MORGANStaff Writer FREEHOLD — As 2006 begins, two longtime law enforcement officials take on new leadership positions with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Peter A. Warshaw Jr., a 19-year veteran of the prosecutor’s office, and Michael Pasterchick Jr., a career federal special agent, were sworn in as first…

  • Small acts of kindness can make a difference

    Coda Greg Bean There was a moving letter to the editor in last week’s edition of one of our newspapers, the Suburban, from a woman named Rosemary Mulvanerton, who wanted to thank the staff of a local Wendy’s restaurant for making her husband a cheeseburger. It seems Ms. Mulvanerton’s husband had been in the hospital…

  • Cap’n Tightwad puts a lid on family spending

    Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch Sometimes I think my beloved spouse would have fared better if he’d chosen to live out a meager existence as a lonely old miser. He could have spent his golden years staring at his stacks of coins and rooms full of money. When the harsh winter winds blew, he…

  • Obituaries

    Joan Freedman Mrs. Freedman, 71, a lifelong resident of Freehold, died Dec. 30 at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in New Brunswick, she had been living at Applewood Estates, Freehold Township, since 1990. Mrs. Freedman attended Freehold Borough public schools, graduated from Miss Fine’s School in Princeton and was an alumna of Wellesley College,…

  • Letters

    School officials need creative budgeting ideas I agree with Marlboro school officials that S-1701 was not well thought out by our legislators in Trenton, and that it has forced school districts like Marlboro to take extraordinary measures to deal with the rising cost of fuel. Although in the law’s first year, homeowners received property tax…

  • Letters

    It In a recent letter to the editor the writer voices concern that she found no media coverage about “why” the Freehold Borough schools are overcrowded. I think it’s self-evident that the schools are overcrowded because of the influx of immigrants with children. Is this so different from the surrounding suburbs with their burgeoning new…

  • H.S. district honors teen for dad’s Sept. 11 sacrifice

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Special recognition has been given to a Marlboro High School student by the Freehold Regional High School District. Corbin Mayo lost his father, firefighter Robert J. Mayo, during the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City, on Sept. 11, 2001. In presenting the…