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Candidates sought to raise important issues
We thank all of our many supporters. From the outset, we knew it would be an uphill battle. However, we proceeded because we love our community and believe that raising public awareness about the many fiscal hurdles facing the township was worth the effort. Having walked countless hours and meeting thousands of residents, we feel…
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Time for action on pay-to-play in N.J. towns
A s the beginning of 2012 nears — the time when state legislative action will begin in earnest — Gov. Chris Christie and the legislative leadership need to make completing the unfinished agenda of pay-to-play reform a high priority. New Jersey has one of the strongest state-level pay-to-play reform laws in the nation. It has…
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Clean Sweep volunteers help clear garbage-strewn roads
HOWELL — Approximately 250 volunteers, including families, service groups and local businesses, participated in the sixth annual Clean Sweep event that was hosted by Howell’s Clean Communities program on Oct. 22. Clean Communities is a statewide litterabatement program created by the passage of the Clean Community Act in 1986. The program is managed by the…
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Board changes general counsel
From now through the date when the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education holds its reorganization meeting following the April 2012 school election, there will be new general legal counsel to the board. At its meeting on Nov. 14 the board appointed the Comengo Law Group, of Moorestown, to serve as general counsel.…
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Spa Day exclusive to cancer survivors
ABC Day Spa at CentraState and the Cancer Center at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township, will hold a Spa Day for Cancer Survivors from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 6 at the ABC Day Spa. The Spa Day for Cancer Survivors will pamper survivors with a menu of complimentary spa services such as massage…
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Town enters services deal with The Grande
BYMARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — The Township Committee has approved a municipal services agreement with the Grande at Battleground Community Association Inc., which represents a private residential community. Under the terms of the agreement, announced at the committee’s Nov. 9 meeting, Manalapan will reimburse the association the development’s costs for snow removal and street…
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Professor to lecture about dinosaurs in New Jersey
Dinosaurs that lived in New Jersey will be the featured Nov. 28 lecture topic at Brookdale Community College, 765 Newman Springs Road (Route 520), Lincroft. The lecture will be held from 6-9 p.m. in the Warner Student Life Center, lower level, Twin Lights room. Community members are encouraged to attend the free event that is…
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Panel trying to make certain signs are fine
BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Members of the Freehold Borough Historic Preservation Advisory Commission are trying to ensure that ordinances governing business signs in the downtown district are being enforced. Several long-time business owners attended the commission’s Nov. 10 meeting to discuss recent notices of violation they received from the borough’s Code…
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