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Board to review motor lodge site
MARLBORO — The Marlboro Planning Board will examine the Marlboro Motor Lodge property on Route 9 south as it considers whether that parcel could be deemed to be an area in need of redevelopment. In August, the Marlboro Township Council authorized the purchase of the Marlboro Motor Lodge property for possible use as an affordable…
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Colleges to offer training courses
Beginning in January, New Jersey’s community colleges, in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs and the New Jersey Business and Industry Association, will offer a series of training courses to meet the federal and state requirements for New Jersey contractors performing renovation, repair and painting projects that may disturb lead-based paint in…
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Freeholders will reorganize Jan. 6
The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders will hold a Sine Die meeting at 11 a.m. Jan. 6 in the Monmouth County Hall of Records, Main Street, Freehold. This meeting is held to conclude financial and other business matters for 2010. The Latin term Sine Die means the final adjournment of a legislative session, without adjourning…
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Man pleads guilty in crash that claimed father’s life
On Dec. 20, Samuel Perez-Ramirez, 40, of Freehold Borough, pleaded guilty to second-degree vehicular homicide and fourth-degree assault by auto before state Superior Court Judge Ronald L. Reisner, sitting in Freehold. In addition, Perez-Ramirez pleaded guilty to a motor vehicle offense of driving while intoxicated (DWI). According to a press release from the Monmouth County…
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Monmouth Worship Center celebrates 25 years, new home
Congregation excited to move to building on Vanderburg Rd. BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent MARLBORO — Twenty-five years ago, according to the Rev. Ken Jasko, the MonmouthWorship Center (MWC) started with a group of a few members that included himself, his wife, Louise, their sons, Timothy, 3, and Andrew, 3 months, and later a daughter, Christina.…
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Residents will be named to budget panel
FREEHOLD — Three Freehold Borough residents will be named to serve on a Citizens Advisory Budget Committee. The committee was established in a resolution passed by the Borough Council on Dec. 20. According to the resolution, the mayor and council “wish to use every opportunity to find ways to cut costs and to save tax…
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Items being collected for troops currently serving overseas
Members of the First Friday Fellowship of Crossroads Assembly of God Church in Englishtown, with the support of donations from the Englishtown American Legion Molly Pitcher Post 434 and its Women’s Auxiliary, were able to purchase Christmas gifts, decorations, toiletries and snacks for soldiers serving overseas this Christmas. As a result of the generous monetary…
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Family seeking to sell off set of 31 Koontz guitars
Late resident had collected hand-crafted guitars made by New Jersey’s Sam Koontz BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer It is a story that might make William Shakespeare proud. “We’ve got passion, we’ve got love, we have beauty, we have death and we have suicide … it’s everything that Shakespeare would have written about,” said Christopher Wylde,…
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Author attempts to capture essence of Christmas 1945
Book examines how throng of military personnel tried to get home for holidays after WWII BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Christmas is a special time of year for many families, but the Christmas of 1945 was special to the entire nation because it was the first Christmas after the end of World War II. Matthew Litt,…
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