• Students head back to class in Manalapan-Englishtown

    BYAMY ROSEN Staff Writer Students returned to class on Sept. 6 in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District and found some changes. Information provided by the district indicated that as of Aug. 25 there were 5,195 children enrolled in the district, which includes the John I. Dawes Early Learning Center; five first through fifth grade buildings,…

  • Young man faces tough road in coping with loss

    Corbin Mayo was 11 when his dad was killed at the World Trade Center BY JENNIFER LILONSKY Rutgers University Student Corbin Mayo Until the body of his father Robert was recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center a month or two after his death, Corbin Mayo of Marlboro could not accept the loss.…

  • Photo contest to capture five decades of open space preservation and park development

    A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many pictures would it take to capture the beauty of preserving 650,000 acres of open space and parks in New Jersey over the past 50 years? That is the challenge the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is putting into the shutter-happy hands of residents…

  • ‘Grow Monmouth’ initiative attempts to help businesses

    The Monmouth County Department of Economic Development is gearing up to help Monmouth County businesses grow and create jobs. A new “Grow Monmouth” initiative will also actively work to attract news businesses to the county. “It’s no secret that what our economy needs right now is jobs,” said Freeholder Thomas A. Arnone, liaison to the…

  • Town planning to use former school for rec programming

    BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer HOWELL— More ways to use space in the former Southard School are finally coming into play as the Howell Township Council and the Howell K-8 School District Board of Education enter into a shared service agreement. School administrators closed the 50- year old Southard School, Kent Road, in 2009 because…

  • Two bridges knocked out

    Jackson Mills Road over the Manasquan River in Freehold Township and Southard Avenue over the Manasquan River in Howell are two bridges and roads that will be closed indefinitely as a result of damage caused by Hurricane Irene, according to a press release from Monmouth County. Flooding and power outages that were the result of…

  • Join the Moment of Remembrance for the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001

    A mericans are being encouraged to come together as a nation for the Moment of Remembrance at 1 p.m. EDT on Sept. 11, 2011. The event will memorialize the lives lost during the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 with one minute of reflection marked by the ringing of bells, sounding…

  • The first casualty in an emergency: information

    CODA GREG BEAN There are a million stories in the naked city, and after last week’s storm, there are nine million tales of woe in New Jersey. Our family has its own stories, but ours are not as dramatic and heartbreaking as many others. The power at our house went out early Sunday morning, and…

  • for the record 

    Freehold Borough Patrolman Richard Schwerthoffer was stationed at the command center at the Freehold Fire Department and coordinated police and fire responses during Hurricane Irene. Acting Police Chief Capt. Glenn Roberts said Schwerthoffer’s position at the firehouse allowed for communications back and forth between the command center personnel at the police department and the fire…

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