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Freehold Borough resident charged with murder in Asbury Park incident
A Freehold Borough man was charged on April 19 in connection with the April 18 shootings of Orlando Rowe, 30, of Bridgeport, Conn., and a 23- year-old Freehold Borough man. According to information provided by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, Rowe was pronounced dead at a local hospital on the evening of April 18; the…
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datebook
The CentraState Medical Center Auxiliary will host a trip to Resorts Hotel- Casino, Atlantic City, on May 3. The cost of $28 includes $25 back in coin slots. No one under 21 will be allowed on the trip. Checks must be made out to the CentraState Hospital Auxiliary. Buses will leave from the Covered…
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The cicadas are coming
GUEST COLUMN MICHELE S. BYERS The last time “Brood II” hatched, Bill Clinton was in the White House, Justin Bieber was in diapers, and there was no Google, Facebook, Twitter or Wikileaks! Brood II are periodical cicadas (the genus Magicicada), which emerge only once every 13 or 17 years. This brood has been snoozing underground…
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Playing the blame game over school tax increases
CODA GREG BEAN News out of East Brunswick about the school tax rate was a real kick in the teeth to homeowners whose taxes support the community’s school district, and could be to anyone across the state who has seen the value of their home diminished significantly as a result of the rotten economy of…
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Legislation would permit restricted driver’s license
The proposed New Jersey Senate Bill S-2427 would permit a restricted driver’s license for persons suspended for driving while intoxicated so they would to be able to drive to work. The license would be used exclusively for traveling to and from the licensee’s place of employment or education when other transportation is not available, and…
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Cell phone’s roots can be traced to Manalapan
Richard Frenkiel helped create first cellular system in 1980s BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Richard H. Frenkiel MANALAPAN — Richard H. Frenkiel and his wife Maizie were sitting home in the dark in the midst of superstorm Sandy when the telephone rang. Someone on the other end informed him that he had been nominated for…
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Roosevelt Arts Project to celebrate 25th anniversary with special events
Beginning at 11 a.m. May 4 and running through the afternoon of May 5, the Roosevelt Arts Project in Roosevelt, Monmouth County, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a weekend-long series of events. The weekend’s activities will take place in, around and near the Roosevelt Public School, Route 571, which will be the site of…
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on campus
Amy Segen of Howell, a behavioral health major at Alvernia University, Reading, Pa., spent spring break working to help others in Tennessee through the college’s “Alternative Break” program. John McNulty of Manalapan has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the Rutgers Business School, Newark. The Honor Society of Phi Kappa…
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