• Historical society to welcome Narozanick

    The Battleground Historical Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at the Village Inn museum, corner of Main and Water streets, Englishtown. Ted Narozanick, a former mayor of Englishtown and a former Monmouth County freeholder for seven consecutive terms, will be the guest. A DVD depicting his World War II experiences, which earned him…

  • Whole Foods coming to Marlboro

    MARLBORO — It’s official: Whole FoodsMarket is coming to Marlboro. Whole Foods executives recently signed a lease for 40,000 square feet in Marlboro Commons, a new retail center being built on the southwest corner of Route 9 and Route 520. Other leases in the shopping center are under negotiation. “I am excited that Whole Foods…

  • Scouts have chance to design new patch

    The Lakewood BlueClaws baseball team is looking for local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to design a patch that will be given out to scouts at BlueClaws scout nights this year. “In 10 years we have given out 10 different scout patches,” BlueClaws General Manager Geoff Brown said. “As we start our second decade, we…

  • Firefighters rescue 3 cats from smoke-filled home

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Freehold Borough police and firefighters discuss the situation outside the scene of a house fire on Oak Street on the morning of Feb. 19. Two people and a dog escaped the blaze and firefighters rescued three cats from the residence. PHOTO COURTESY OF FREEHOLD FIRE DEPARTMENT FREEHOLD — Firefighters…

  • Freehold class of 1991 preparing to reunite

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — The year was 1991. Patrick Kendrick played quarterback for the Freehold High School Colonials. Stacey Tetto was crowned homecoming queen and Matt Nichter was elected class president. If any of this sounds familiar and jolts a memory, Freehold High School graduate Carey Shutzer Snyder is looking for…

  • on campus 

    Shane Patrick Riley Delorme of Manalapan, a pre-medicine and biochemistry molecular biology major at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona section of Galloway, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester. Shane is a 2010 graduate of Manalapan High School and is the son of Cathy Riley-Snyder and Joey Snyder.…

  • Marlboro breathing easier with Supreme Court stay

    BY REBECCAMORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — The state Supreme Court has sided with Marlboro and has granted the municipality a stay which will temporarily put a halt to affordable housing lawsuits that have been filed against the township. The decision by the Supreme Court was filed on Feb. 15. In September 2010 the state Council…

  • Board names Sampson new superintendent

    Educator will lead FRHSD’s six schools, 11,800 students BY REBECCAMORTON Staff Writer Charles Sampson I t may have taken longer than expected, but the contract to have Charles Sampson lead the Freehold Regional High School District as the new superintendent has finally been approved by the state. With that approval in hand, the FRHSD Board…

  • New book chronicles black experience in Monmouth

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Brandon Williams, 11, of Manalapan, a member of the New Jersey Orators Club, presents his composition about the importance of reading, as part of a program at Barnes & Noble, Freehold Township, marking Black History Month. The struggles and achievements of African-American families in Monmouth County is the subject…

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