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  • School community offers support to teacher in walk

    FREEHOLD — On April 17, Freehold High School Spanish teacher Rennie Rankin along with 150 of her students, colleagues, family and friends will walk in the MS Walk to end the devastating effects of MS (multiple sclerosis). Rankin will captain the Freehold High School team with a goal of raising as much money as possible…

  • Obituaries

    Dorothy Eleanor Engebretson Mrs. Engebretson, 75, of Colts Neck, died March 6 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She courageously battled lymphoma for 13 years. Born in Newark, she had resided in Matawan before moving to Colts Neck 30 years ago. Prior to retiring after 30 years of service, she was employed by…

  • Obituaries

    Clint Warrington Sr. Mr. Warrington, 67, of Allentown, died March 7 at home. Born in Milton, Del., he came to the New Jersey area in the late 1950s to drive horses at Freehold Raceway and other area racetracks, such as Pocono Downs in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. His longtime career involved breaking colts and training racehorses for…

  • A credit to their school

    You really have to laugh a bit at federal regulations known as the No Child Left Behind Act that deem the entire Freehold Regional High School District to be a district in need of improvement. As acknowledged in a recent letter to the editor from FRHSD Superintendent of Schools James Wasser, the district received that…

  • Henry Hudson Trail Extension, not passenger train service, adds to a community’s quality of life

    I am 37 years old and have grown up here in central New Jersey. I (always had) a very clear image in my mind of what my home would look like, what we would talk about at the dinner table each night, and how my family would grow and the love my children would feel…

  • Train plan a total mess

    It seems like a good idea — simple, effective, necessary. That probably means it will never happen. The idea to restore passenger rail service to interior Monmouth and Ocean counties has been kicking around for almost two decades. As Route 9 is choked with commuters on a daily basis and more people are moving to…

  • Manalapan residents must start asking officials tough questions about proposed development on Route 33

    It’s springtime, and hope springs eternal. At least that’s the hope of the deal makers and the developer with the grandiose plan to build a huge mall at the intersection of Route 33 and Millhurst Road in Manalapan. Richard Brunelli is the main spokesperson, president and partner of Manalapan Retail Partners, the company that proposed…

  • All the laws in the world won’t stop bad behavior

    Greg Bean Coda Memo to members of the New Jersey Assembly: Your highly touted ban on talking on a cell phone while driving is a dismal failure, at least judging by the numbers of people I see happily flouting the law on my way to and from work every day. This morning, I actually saw…