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Letters
New trail must not give way to rail line June 4 marked the 25th annual National Trails Day. On this day the Monmouth County Park System dedicated the southern extension of the Henry Hudson Trail, from Freehold to Matawan. Only the portion from Freehold to Marlboro will be officially open; work continues on the section…
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For the record
James McNamara is a veteran of Desert Storm and a retired Marine Corps corporal. Information about his rank and service were incorrect in June 1 photograph caption in the News Transcript.
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Republican machine has not made real changes
Your Turn Steven Sukel Guest Column Steven Sukel Guest Column The ultimate chutzpah is said to come from the person who kills his parents and then pleads for pity because he is an orphan. Marlboro Mayor Robert Kleinberg seems to have borrowed from that clich with a twist – the overwhelming corruption that has enveloped…
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Grads of 2005 should ‘endeavor to persevere’
Coda Greg Bean There’s a moment in the classic Clint Eastwood movie “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” when the old Cherokee warrior, Lone Watie, is talking about his tribe’s defeat at the hands of white soldiers. “I didn’t surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender,” Lone Watie says sadly. “They have him pulling…
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Student honored for science project in Intel competition
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Swarup Swaminathan FREEHOLD — A Multivariate Regression Model Estimating the Heats of Formation of Group 1 and 7 Molecules can sure sound like a mouthful of scientific jargon. But for Swarup Swaminathan, of Howell, a senior at Freehold High School, that was the name of the…
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Student’s recipe wins award
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Amanda Feldman FREEHOLD — For one student at Freehold High School, chocolate is the main ingredient in her education. “I won an award for a recipe I created that was based on chocolate,” said senior Amanda Feldman, of Howell. “It’s called a Chocolate Cheesecake Bomb and…
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Carol McKee enjoyed watching youngsters develop into adults
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Carol McKee FREEHOLD — Carol McKee’s 13-year tenure as the principal at Freehold High School is drawing to a close. McKee will retire effective July 1, after seeing her students grow up, go off into the work world or to college, get married and begin families…
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Obituaries
Zona G. Burlew Ms. Burlew, 68, of East Haven, Conn., died June 2 at home. She was born in Neptune and had lived in Freehold before moving to Connecticut. Ms. Burlew was a pediatric nurse practitioner at Connecticut Health Care Physicians, New Haven, for many years. She was a graduate of Freehold High School, Freehold…
