• Foundation plans programs at state parks

    The Conserve Wildlife Foundation is partnering this year with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to conduct interpretive programs at three state parks, with a goal of enhancing visitors’ awareness of the state’s natural resources and offering educational program for students, while providing more meaningful experiences for all park users, DEP Commissioner Bob…

  • Community garden returns for third year

    FREEHOLD — The Freehold Borough community garden is continuing to bring neighbors together and to grow more than crops, according to Debbie Keelan. “We are also growing friendships,” said Keelan, who chairs the Neighborhood Pride Committee (NPC). The community garden is sponsored by the NPC. Now in its third year at a lot on Lloyd…

  • ‘Smokin hot’ photo used on greeting card

    BYAMY ROSEN Marlene Brooker shows the greeting card that features a photograph of her greatgreat grandfather. Hallmark Cards selected the photo and an accompanying phrase as a winning entry in a recent contest. When Marlene Brooker’s greatgreat grandfather posed for a photo while smoking his pipe many, many years ago, he most likely never envisioned…

  • in the service 

    Air Force Airman Edward G. Hauff, son of Edward G. and Barbara Hauff of Freehold, graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen…

  • 3-, 4-year-olds eligible for preschool program

    MARLBORO — The Marlboro K-8 School District offers a half-day integrated preschool program for 3-year-olds and 4- year-olds who are residents of Marlboro. The program is designed to bring special needs preschoolers and regular preschoolers together in an integrated environment. Research has shown that all students benefit from this type of program, according to a…

  • budget comes at a time when the Monmouth County Library System is experiencing tremendous growth in circulation as well as in the number of programs, patrons and lending materials, including books, DVDs, CDs and other items. The Monmouth County Library System, with 12 branches and 40 member towns, is the largest circulating library in the…

  • Driving course to benefit Haiti

    MANALAPAN — The Community Refuge Church, 4 Sobecko Road, off Pension Road, Manalapan, in asking for assistance as it helps the people of Haiti continue to recover from an earthquake that struck the Caribbean island nation in January 2010. The church is offering a defensive driving class to raise funds. The class is certified by…

  • Foundation awards teachers mini-grants

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — The Freehold Borough Educational Foundation is continuing its mission to support the Freehold Borough K- 8 School District. The foundation, which was organized in 1999, offers grants to teachers at the borough’s three schools for projects it believes will benefit students. The projects are not funded by…

  • Infrastructure upgrades planned

    MARLBORO — State Sen. Jennifer Beck, Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon and Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande (all R-Monmouth and Mercer) have announced that the Assembly Agricultural and Natural Resources Committee passed a bill that would appropriate $3.6 million from the Clean Waters Fund for sewerage infrastructure improvements at the Route 520 property that formerly housed the Marlboro State…

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