• Gosh, the truck used to be big enough

    ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH We went out on a limb this past week and treated the Black Hills of South Dakota to five days of the Clinches. Yessir, there’s nothing like a bout with the Clinch clan to get a national park to rise to the occasion. The planning of a camping trip…

  • Freehold Twp. supports goal of new access road to mall

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP— Municipal officials have passed a resolution which supports the idea of creating a fourth access road into the Freehold Raceway Mall. At the present time, the mall can be reached from Route 9, Business Route 33 and Route 537. Township Administrator Peter Valesi said the resolution that was passed by the Township Committee…

  • FRHSD seniors say farewell

    The world awaits the Freehold Regional High School District graduates of 2011 as they embark on a path of higher education, military service or a career. Graduation ceremonies were held simultaneously at all six FRHSD schools on the evening of June 20. Colts Neck High School said farewell to 386 seniors. The school did not…

  • Expansion planned for 9/11 memorial

    Engraved brick pavers will be sold in Marlboro BY REBECCAMORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Additions at the township’s Sept. 11 memorial and the money to fund those improvements are coming in one brick at a time. Marlboro’s memorial to those who were killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is situated near the…

  • Freehold slates concert, fireworks

    Downtown Freehold invites families to celebrate the nation’s 235th birthday with its annual Fourth of July concert and fireworks to be held July 3 at Freehold Raceway, Freehold. More than just fireworks, this familyfriendly event, which begins at 5:30 p.m., offers live music, beginning with the Rock ’n’ Roll Chorus 6-6:40 p.m. and again at…

  • Town will not give up email sender’s address

    BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer HOWELL — Municipal officials blocked out the email address of the person who recently sent the Howell Township Council a message asking the governing body to take action against a private Internet website. In response to an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request filed by Greater Media Newspapers, the municipality…

  • American Legion asking for help in assisting troops

    We here at the American Legion are serving the Farmingdale and Howell area. We are asking you, our fellow citizens, to help us support our men and women in the armed forces, during this time of war in Iraq andAfghanistan. “Operation Troops in Need” is just one of our service projects in support of our…

  • This’ll make you view the neighbors in a new light

    GREG BEAN Here’s the tale of my only near brush with the fame that sometimes comes to people who witness mob violence firsthand: It was a sunny June morning in 1989, and I was the editor of an alternative newspaper serving the North Shore of Boston. My mother had been visiting, and I was driving…

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