Category: News Transcript Opinion
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Better flow of info about crime a must
The biggest armed robbery to hit downtown Freehold Borough in years took place on the afternoon of Aug. 26 and resulted in a virtual news blackout from law enforcement authorities for almost a week. When the News Transcript learned that Ballew Jewelers on West Main Street had been robbed, a reporter began calling Freehold Borough…
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Tax breaks could ease our pain at the pumps
Coda Greg Bean Who’s the hardest-working guy in New Jersey this week? Well, if you notice what’s been going on at your local gas station, it’s the guy who’s out there with a long pole, changing the prices every half-hour. I know this is a fluid situation, and Lord only knows what the price of…
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Business Briefs
Jeremy Garfield of Colts Neck has been promoted to air center manager for the Edison office of Ingersoll-Rand, a company with 40,000 employees worldwide. Garfield will oversee the operation of the air center, a branch of the air solutions group, which is a division of Ingersoll-Rand’s industrial technologies. Garfield’s duties include overseeing the sales, service,…
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Letters
New Jersey must protect, not kill, its wildlife For all those urban folk that moved from an overdeveloped area to escape congestion and the effects thereof on their quality of life, the expectation that all other previous inhabitants should move out to make room for them is self-serving, shortsighted and unrealistic. Bears inhabited New Jersey…
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School district continues outreach to community
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer FREEHOLD — Security cameras, iris scanning, anti-bullying videos and lockdown drills are just a few of the new additions to the borough school district’s five-year strategic plan, according to Director of Special Programs Jim Cosulich. Cosulich gave a presentation of the additions to the…
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Route 79 will never become Marlboro’s ‘downtown’ district
Marlboro’s Route 79 ordinance passed last week illustrates an interes-ting alliance, namely eminent domain. One could only wonder why Marlboro’s administration, in league with its reckless ordinance-driven Township Coun-cil, has joined forces to mirror the Supreme Court’s most egregious and ill-advised decision in recent years. The premise of the Route 79 ordinance is to suggest…
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Bonjavanni will leave school board
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — Board of Education Vice President Mark Bonjavanni is resigning from the panel to take a paid position with the New Jersey School Boards Association. Bonjavanni, who is a teacher in Asbury Park, had to resign from his volunteer position with the board because the…
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Board, teachers trying to settle new contract
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer FREEHOLD — It remains to be seen whether a new teachers contract will be settled by negotiation or by mediation. Teachers in the Freehold Borough School District are working under the terms of a contract that expired at the end of the 2004-05 school…
