• State finds fault with FRHSD’s 2011 legal services contract

    Board president says changes have been made By JACK MURTHA Staff Writer Legal bills incurred by the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education in 2011 contained several faults that could have cost taxpayers money, according to a report released last week by the Office of the State Comptroller. The report outlines five areas…

  • Board plans to fill open seat

    By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer PLUMSTED — Candidates are being sought to fill a vacant seat on the Plumsted Township School District Board of Education. Board Vice President Jon Hauge recently announced he would be leaving the panel because he is moving out of town. Hauge was serving the first year of a threeyear term…

  • Updated curriculum plan takes effect in Howell school district

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer HOWELL — The Education Committee of the Howell K-8 School District Board of Education recently heard the details of a new 36-month curriculum action plan that district staff members have put together. The plan provides an overview of all the curriculum and programs throughout the district. It maps out how…

  • Areas off I-195 seen as possible development sites in Jackson

    By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer JACKSON — The recent completion of a study by the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA) and the New Jersey Institute of Technology College of Architecture and Design has Jackson officials — and in some cases, prospective business owners — excited for what could be on the horizon in the…

  • New Egypt resident enters Peace Corps and journeys to Rwanda

    PLUMSTED — Darcy Suzanne Forlenza, 29, the daughter of Donna and Bob Forlenza of New Egypt, has been accepted into the Peace Corps and has departed to Rwanda, Africa, to begin training as a health care volunteer. Forlenza will live and work in a community to alleviate health concerns involving HIV/AIDS, malaria and malnutrition, and…

  • Feds raise Sandy reimbursement, cutting Jackson residents a break

    By ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer JACKSON — Following a decision by President Barack Obama to allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to increase funding for recovery efforts in the wake of superstorm Sandy from 75 percent to 90 percent, Jackson officials expressed a feeling of relief. The total estimated cleanup and restoration costs incurred…

  • DATEBOOK

     Shark Week will be celebrated at the Jackson Library, 2 Jackson Drive, Jackson, with the following events: Jaws hoodie arts and crafts, for ages 12-17, 3 p.m. July 29. Attendees should bring a hooded sweatshirt; a shark presentation with Dean W. Fessler Jr., education director at the Shark Research Institute, Princeton, 7 p.m. July…

  • Plan to increase New Jersey-born horses advances

    State Assemblyman Ronald S. Dancer’s bipartisan plan to increase the number of Standardbred horses in New Jersey was recently approved by the state Assembly. “It’s a shame that a state whose state animal is the horse has just three stallions and a few hundred mares left when it wasn’t that long ago that New Jersey’s…

  • Moms taking action to promote gun reform

    By JACK MURTHA Staff Writer Robin Nowicki of Manalapan is serving as the ambassador for Monmouth County with the New Jersey chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. The women are lobbying members of Congress to support common-sense gun reform. You probably heard the tale of the mother who lifted a 3,000-pound…

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