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    Fredo’s Italian Restaurant is celebrating its debut as it breathes new life into the former Ferrari’s restaurant. Located in A&MPlaza, 3475 Route 9 north. (corner of Three Brooks Road), Freehold Township, Fredo’s is still owned by Freehold residents Mary and Louie Thompson, who have updated the 3,000-square-foot facility to reflect a more casual, family friendly…

  • IRS offers income tax advice to students with summer jobs

    Some high school and college students with summer jobs may not realize that they have to pay taxes on their income. The IRS is offering tips for students about income earned while working a summer job. All employees fill out a W-4, Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate, when starting a new job. Employers use this form…

  • Conservation projects could gain funding

    State Sen. Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth and Mercer) announced the unanimous passage of her Green Acres bill by the state Senate on June 9. The bill, S-2859, appropriates $45 million from the 2009 Green Acres Fund and $12 million from the 2009 Blue Acres Fund for state acquisition of lands for recreation and conservation purposes, according…

  • If I didn’t say it before, Pop, thanks for the cheeseburgers

    CODA GREG BEAN On Father’s Day, my boys took me out for a wonderful brunch, and we passed a few fine hours laughing, and planning for upcoming, happy events. I consider myself blessed to have such fine sons. But I also spent a lot of the day thinking about my own father, who died in…

  • Parents offer praise for Marlboro H.S. staff

    Our daughter Niki is graduating from Marlboro High School after four years that were marked by her recovery from numerous sports-related head injuries. She entered high school with a dream to play basketball. That dream ended early in her sophomore year when the doctors told her she would never play again. Devastated and forced to…

  • More information needed about Obama

    Greater Media Newspapers columnist Greg Bean makes very valid statements regarding a presidential candidate’s personal background and historical knowledge being released and questioned in order for them to run and be elected to our highest office, but he seems to only point to the Tea Party candidates or for any Republican candidates for this office.…

  • Lack of news coverage inspires help for tornado-ravaged Alabama

    Area woman reports back with message that people are still suffering there BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent Liz Blaso searches for family photographs in the remains of an 86-year-old woman’s home in Hackleburg, Ala. The homeowner survived the April 27 tornadoes that destroyed 90 percent of the structures in her town because she had been in…

  • Freehold Borough resident aids Joplin, Mo., recovery

    Nicholas Emanuel FREEHOLD — Nicholas Emanuel of Freehold Borough has deployed to Joplin, Mo., as part of a local U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planning and response team that has been tapped to support recovery efforts in southwest Missouri following the devastating tornado that struck there on May 22. The corps has been assigned by…

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