• Resident says funds were needlessly spent

    A llentown taxpayers have been asking our elected officials to find innovative ways to reduce spending. In Allentown, our former chief financial officer of over 20 years recently retired, reducing a once 40-hours-per-week position to a half-time, 20-hours-per-week CFO position. The full-time CFO position that was costing (in today’s dollars) approximately $100,000 per year with…

  • Group seeks sponsors to help donkeys, horses

    This holiday season, please consider extending your compassion and generosity to poor people and exhausted animals in India by becoming an Animal Rahat sponsor. (“Rahat” means “relief” in Hindi.) Throughout India, thousands of bullocks, horses and donkeys are forced to pull heavy carts for miles. Many suffer from muscle strain and painful sores. The exhausted…

  • Retail world encroaching on family life

    Black Friday should be limited to just that — namely, Black Friday. Unfortunately, for those of us who have family in retail, it has crept into our lives on Thanksgiving. We are prime examples of this with our two college students who work parttime in retail. Much to our dismay, Thanksgiving came to a close…

  • Key word in marijuana debate is compassion

    The elected leaders of New Jersey demonstrated political courage in enacting the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act. They demonstrated their compassion toward those who suffer the consequences of various diseases. The expedient thing to do was not allow the use of medical marijuana. Those who passed this legislation did right in spite of…

  • U.F. residents fear reefer madness from medical marijuana facility

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent UPPER FREEHOLD — While the audience was not as large as at previous Township Committee meetings where a possible medical marijuana facility was discussed, the majority of residents at the Dec. 15 meeting made it clear that they supported an ordinance later passed by the governing body that prohibits any entity…

  • Allentown blaze leaves home partially uninhabitable

    Elementary school reworks dismissal due to road closure ALLENTOWN — A fire that tore through a borough home across from the Upper Freehold Regional Elementary School on High Street last Wednesday left one side of the house uninhabitable and caused school officials to have to rework the dismissal process due to road closure there, according…

  • New Jersey pols come through for veterans

    CODA GREG BEAN Soldiers won a couple of big ones last week, and on Dec. 13, my wife and I were in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., to see one of those victories in the making. Since our son, Coleman — a U.S. Army sergeant and veteran of two combat tours in Iraq —…

  • Dutch ancestry group seeks members

    The Holland-America Group brings together Dutch-speaking people in Central Jersey for three to four lunches annually at restaurants in Monmouth and Ocean counties and during the summer for a barbecue. A New Year’s Eve party for members will be held Jan. 1 at a member’s house in Freehold. Dutch-speaking people who are interested in joining…

  • Charity makes year-end appeal for funds

    Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth & Middlesex Counties (BBBSMMC) is in the midst of its year-end appeal for funds so the agency can continue to provide children with academic, social or economic challenges with caring volunteer Big Brothers and Sisters .“ Every donation whether large or small helps” saidWilliam Salcedo, Executive Director of BBBSMMC.…

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