• Freehold pupils link up with Ugandan youths

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Sylvia Allen, the founder of a nonprofit organization that provides children in Uganda, Africa, with services and necessities, recently put into place a program that now connects Ugandan youngsters with children in Freehold Township. The children are writing to each other as pen-pals. Recently, Freehold Township…

  • Uncertainty surrounds next FRHSD budget

    Pay-to-participate option is on the table as officials start work on spending plan BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer With certain information unknown, it is not easy to predict what the financial situation will be for the 2011-12 Freehold Regional High School District budget, but administrators are starting to look at ways to save money. The…

  • Test results show progress for FRHSD

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Students showed enough improvement on standardized tests to lift the Freehold Regional High School District out of a classification as a district in need of improvement. The designation is part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act that measures adequate yearly progress (AYP) made by students. FRHSD spokesman James…

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    First-graders enjoy ice cream and an array of toppings during the Adelphia School, Howell, first-grade night out and ice cream social held on Dec. 10. The special event included a disc jockey, ice cream, crafts and a Toys for Tots donation drive. LAUREN CASSELBERRY

  • Santa Clauses are coming to town

    FREEHOLD — The Monmouth County Historical Association presents a special loan exhibition of vintage Santas on view now through Jan. 15 at the museum and library, 70 Court St., Freehold. Santa figures and toys have been a part of holiday decorating since the 19th century. The examples on view were imported from Japan or Germany…

  • Guests welcome at MacKenzie Museum

    HOWELL — The MacKenzie Museum, 427 Lakewood-Farmingdale Road, Howell, will host an open house 1-4 p.m. Dec. 18. The museum is traditionally decorated for Christmas as the MacKenzie home may have been decorated in the early 1800s. Lynne Gillette of the Howell Historical Society said the open house allows guests to walk around and see…

  • Tree save plan at issue in subdivision application

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — An application that has been before the Jackson Planning Board since 2004 was back for another hearing at a recent meeting. The application known as Michael Rottenberg proposes a five-lot subdivision with four building lots and one lot for a detention basin off Clearstream Road, near Brewers Bridge…

  • Christmas show to raise funds for food pantry and veterans

    The Company of Music, Theatre and Dance and its performance workshop youth ensemble will bring a taste of Broadway to the Jersey Shore with its “Christmas and New Year’s Spectacular,” created and directed by Alison Gertner Mann, to be performed Dec. 18 and 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Millstone Performing Arts Center, Dawson Court,…

  • Televisions to be accepted for recycling at two Ocean County locations

    Beginning Jan. 1, Ocean County will accept used televisions free of charge at its regional recycling centers in Lakewood and Manahawkin. Televisions will join the list of other electronics, including computers, laptops, monitors, DVD players, VCRs, fax machines and desktop printers, recycled by Ocean County. “According to the state Department of Environmental Protection, starting the…

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