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Lawyer gets five years in prison
A ttorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced that a lawyer from Marlboro was sentenced to prison last week for his role in a scheme to steal more than $2.6 million from lenders by filing fraudulent mortgage loan applications. The lawyer, Mark J. Bellotti, 56, of Marlboro, was sentenced to five years in prison by state…
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Fifty years after murder, women honor grandad
Woody’s Roadside Tavern in Farmingdale will host special Oct. 25 fundraiser BY ANGELA SANTORIELLO Staff Writer Word War II veteran Walter Patterson was living a full life before he was murdered 50 years ago. Patterson’s life was taken on Nov. 23, 1962, when he was beaten and shot at the Wall Township gas station he…
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Burglar surprised by resident in Manalapan home
MANALAPAN — A resident returning to her Manalapan home found a burglar in her residence at 7:57 p.m. Sept. 24. According to information provided by police, officers responded to a residence on Monterey Lane in Manalapan. Monterey Lane is in a residential development off Symmes Road. According to police, the 40-year-old woman entered her home…
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Two charged with assault at Blenheim Rd. home
MANALAPAN — Two men were charged with aggravated assault after police officers responded to a report of a fight at a home on Blenheim Road in the Holiday Park development. According to information provided by Manalapan police, at 4:47 p.m. Sept. 26, officers responded to the home for a report of people fighting with baseball…
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Resident endorses Close for Freehold Regional H.S. District board
I applaud Dave Sherman’s letter in the Oct. 10 News Transcript regarding the reorganization of the Freehold Regional High School District administration. Mr. Sherman pointed out something that I and several other members of the public have spoken out about at previous meetings, and that is the granting of generous salary increases to administrators by…
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Dismayed to read of punishment in U.S. schools
A s a visitor to the United States, I was pained to read Greg Bean’s column, “Classroom Punishments: American Horror Stories” (News Transcript, Sept. 12). It is shocking that such punishments are meted out to children in a child-centric society like the United States. Subsequent to my father’s transfer, I went to Washington, D.C., in…
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Swastikas are more than random vandalism
The Sept. 26 News Transcript included a letter to the editor from Raymond Kostanty, wherein he expressed his views on how vandalism can get upgraded to a “hate crime.” I would first ask Mr. Kostanty to familiarize himself with the legal definition of a “hate crime.” A “hate crime,” also known as a bias crime,…
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