• Higgins preparing to become mayor

    Local businessman has served Freehold Borough in numerous capacities over the years BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Nolan Higgins, a lifelong resident of Freehold Borough, is poised to become the mayor of his hometown. Higgins, 54, is running unopposed for a four-year term as mayor in the Nov. 8 election. His running…

  • business briefs 

    The Jersey Shore Association for Human Resources will host its annual legal seminar sponsored and presented by attorneys in the Jackson Lewis law firm from 8:30 a.m. to noon Nov. 10 at Jumping Brook Country Club, Neptune. The registration fee for the seminar and a full buffet breakfast is $60 for JSAHR members, $90 for…

  • Marlboro resident wins motorcycle

    COLTS NECK — Aaron Blufarb of the Morganville section of Marlboro was the winner of the Colts Neck Volunteer Fire Company No. 2’s Harley-Davidson Road King Raffle. The drawing was held Sept. 23. Blufarb bought a ticket on Father’s Day at Delicious Orchards in Colts Neck. Colts Neck Fire Department Deputy Chief Chris Quincannon said…

  • Take online classes with Universal Class

    Residents can take classes for free with the Monmouth County Library’s new Universal Class database and a library card. The Universal Class database offers hundreds of non-college credit continuing education courses ranging from history, art and math to real estate, computer technology and beauty lessons. Universal Class also offers courses to help homeschoolers, those who…

  • Bond ordinance will include new pumper

    BY REBECCAMORTON Staff Writer COLTS NECK — After discussing the matter with the deputy chief of the township’s fire department, members of the Colts Neck Township Committee are OK with the purchase of a new pumper truck for Colts Neck Fire Company No. 2. The pumper truck appears on a list of capital improvements that…

  • October: Damage control in the garden

    GREEN SCENE GOTTI KELLEY ‘A garden is never so good as it willbe next year.’ — Thomas Cooper T he garden is resilient! Rain falling for days on end, hurricane-force winds tearing at every leaf, bending plants and trees, boggy, soggy areas in your lawn squishing under each step … it was a wild ending…

  • Flesh-eating zombies are big this year for Halloween

    ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH Halloween. It is with great trepidation and the stifling of a blood-curdling scream that some mothers approach the day. When the kids were younger, it was more treats for me than tricks. I could put a sheet over their little heads and convince them that they were a ghost.…

  • Site owner seeks OK for new retail space

    BY REBECCAMORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — A new retail use next door to Costco on Route 9 north could bring about the conversion of a warehouse to a retail business. A plan for the conversion recently received preliminary approval from the Marlboro Planning Board. The placement of a billboard on the same property where the…

  • Kateri will present story of Irish Jack

    MARLBORO — Kateri Environmental Center, Marlboro, will present the story of Irish Jack on Oct. 28 and Oct. 29. For the 25th year, Kateri will present this live drama that tells the origins of Halloween. The woodland trails are lighted with more than 250 jack-o’-lanterns. Visitors walk through the woods and meet the characters along…

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