• Roth bids farewell to Manalapan committee

    BYMARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — Township Committeewoman Michelle Roth thanked Manalapan’s department heads, police officers and municipal employees “who have worked under difficult circumstances” as she wound down her tenure on the Township Committee. Roth made her remarks during the final formal meeting of the governing body in 2011. The meeting was held on…

  • Resident finds unlikely inspiration in rescued dog

    BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer Macy, who was adopted by a Jamesburg couple, is the subject of her owner’s new book, “Macy the Lonely Pit Bull Finds a Home.” A knock on the door of the Jagemann home in Jamesburg, Middlesex County, is greeted by tremendous barking. As the door opens, the vision of a…

  • Planner to review all zones for automobile dealerships

    BYMARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — The Manalapan Planning Board has temporarily put the brakes on a businessman’s request to make an automobile dealership a permitted use on Route 9 north at Taylors Mills Road, Manalapan. At the conclusion of a three-hour meeting on Dec. 8, the board members voted 9- 0 to ask their…

  • NRG will play Dec. 23 show at Wonder Bar

    The popular local band NRG will play a show at the Wonder Bar, Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, on Dec. 23. This is an all-ages holiday show. Showtime is 8 p.m. Admission is $6. Special guests are expected to include the vocal group Stardust, consisting of Freehold Township middle school students, as well as former members…

  • Synagogue embarks on second century

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — The Freehold Jewish Center, Congregation Agudath Achim, has started on its second century of service to the Jewish community of the greater Freehold area. Members of the Freehold Jewish Center, Broad Street, Freehold Borough, have spent much of 2011 commemorating the synagogue’s 100th anniversary with a variety…

  • Organ transplant transforms strangers into good friends

    BY PATRICIAYOCZIS Correspondent Toby Kash Tom Carr and Toby Kash were strangers until a life-altering transplant operation forged their new friendship. In October 2010 at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, Carr, 61, donated one of his kidneys to Kash, who had been on dialysis and was on the National Kidney Registry waiting for…

  • Mayor Wilson saluted at final council meeting

    Freehold Borough official will conclude decades of public service at end of December BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — There were smiles and a few tears as Mayor Michael Wilson banged the gavel for the final time as he presided over his last Borough Council meeting in Freehold Borough on Dec. 5. Wilson,…

  • No Stigma group helps young adults with mental illness

    Facilitator, a Millstone mom, reflects on past two years, looks ahead BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Members of the “No Stigma” support group display their shirts and banner at the National Alliance on Mental Illness walk at Rider University in Lawrenceville. A lthough Shrabanee Shah’s No Stigma support group for young adults with mental illness…

  • FTHS student charged with locker thefts

    District spokeswoman declines to say if girl has been disciplined BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Freehold Township police officers arrested a 17-year-old female student on Nov. 16 at Freehold Township High School in connection with the theft of electronics equipment, cash and jewelry from gym lockers. The girl is a resident of Manalapan. Police…

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