• Upper Freehold re-elects Mount and Moslowski

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — Incumbents LoriSue Horsnall Mount and Stanley Moslowski Jr. were both re-elected to the Township Committee in the Nov. 3 election. M oslowski, the current mayor, was the top vote getter with 1,599 votes. Mount, the current deputy mayor, earned 1,572 votes. Both ran as Republicans in the…

  • Millstone considers developing electronic waste drop-off site

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — The governing body wants more information regarding liability before committing to set up an electronics drop-off site at the public works yard on Sweetmans Lane. Larry Zaayenga, the solid waste coordinator for the Monmouth County Planning Board, appeared at the Nov. 3 Township Committee meeting to explain how the…

  • U.F. postpones hearing on rezoning land near Allentown

    Proposal would allow for mixed-use affordable housing development BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent UPPER FREEHOLD — Over a dozen township and Allentown Borough residents appeared at the Nov. 4 Township Committee meeting, only to find that the public hearing they came for had been postponed indefinitely. The cancelled hearing was on an ordinance, No. 237-10, that…

  • Republicans earn Allentown’s vote of confidence in election

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — Audrey Mount and Jean Hunter bested Wayne Smith and Robert Johnson in the Nov. 2 election. The two Republicans earned the two open three-year term seats on the Borough Council. Mount, the incumbent, won the most votes with 330, while her running mate garnered 299. Democrats Smith and…

  • History exhumed from Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery

    Tombstone readings and re-enactors bring U.F.’s past forward BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent Some of the township’s founding members lie in the Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery. Eugene Hough, president of Heritage Guild Works and a Revolutionary War re-enactor, hosted a cemetery preservation clinic at the Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery in Cream Ridge on Nov.…

  • Police side with parents; bus stops will be moved

    Multiple stops expected to move back onto internal roads of developments this week BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer The Upper Freehold Regional school District will move about 40 bus stops back into housing developments after an evaluation of the Stacey Drive bus stop by the New Jersey State Police. When Stacey Drive parents filed complaints…

  • One hundred years of mitzvahs and memories

    Perrineville Jewish Center celebrates its centenary BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent One hundred years ago, a group primarily consisting of Jewish chicken and potato farmers founded the First Hebrew Farmers Association of Perrineville. Sheldon Schevelowitz, rabbi of the Perrineville Jewish Center since 1989, reflects on the history of the synagogue during a board meeting on Nov.1.…

  • Central Jersey Hawks seek one more player

    The Central Jersey Hawks girls U13 basketball squad is looking to complete its spring 2011 roster by adding one eighth-grader to play center/power forward. Candidates should email [email protected] for more information.

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