• Board sets goals for new year

    BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer ENGLISHTOWN — At its meeting on Aug. 17 the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Board of Education approved board goals and district goals for the 2010-11 school year. Both sets of goals were approved by 8-0 votes by board members Joseph De- Pasquale, Lori Semel, Brian Graime, Diane Bindler, Michele Stipelman,…

  • Credit card companies facing tighter regulation on campus

    BY MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent Companies that offer credit card services often visit college campuses in an effort to attract new customers. In New Jersey, the Division of Consumer Affairs has notified all public and private colleges that a new law which took effect in May is regulating that practice. Under the Credit Card Solicitation Act,…

  • in the service •••

    Marine Corps Pfc. Jose A. Reyes, a 2009 graduate of Freehold High School, Freehold Borough, recently graduated from the Marine Aviation Supply Mechanized Course. During the course with Marine Aviation Training Support Squadron One, Naval Technical Training Center, Meridian, Miss., students learn ordering, requisition, inventory and stock procedures to perform as supply clerks in Fleet…

  • Police seek gas station bandit

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Freehold Borough police are seeking a suspect who robbed a Delta gas station at the corner of Broad and Throckmorton streets at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 22. The suspect is described as a white male with a thin build, between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet tall. COURTESY OF…

  • Freehold Jewish Center welcomes new cantor

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Alan Smolen FREEHOLD — The Freehold Jewish Center, Congregation Agudath Achim, is welcoming a new hazzan (cantor) as the synagogue prepares to celebrate its centennial year. The synagogue’s board of directors has hired Alan Smolen to join Rabbi Kenneth Greene as the religious leaders of the congregation. Smolen said…

  • Citizens may attend class at academy

    Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden has announced that applications are now being accepted for enrollment in the 15th annual Citizen Police Academy to be held at the Monmouth County Police Academy, Kozloski Road, Freehold Township. The Citizen Police Academy is designed to give attendees an overview of law enforcement services in Monmouth County. The academy…

  • Drug operation nets leader 25-year term

    O n Aug. 26, Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis A. Valentin and John G. McCabe Jr., acting special agent in charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, New Jersey Division, announced that Vicente Esteves, 37, of Manalapan, was sentenced to a 25-year state prison term in connection with his role as the head of an international narcotics trafficking and…

  • Rain gardens to be installed at Brookdale Comm. College

    MIDDLETOWN — To help keep pollutants from entering the Swimming River Reservoir, a source of drinking water for many, Monmouth County will begin building five rain gardens around one of Brookdale Community College’s parking lots that lies nearest the reservoir. The rain gardens are expected to cost $75,800 and will be paid for through a…

  • Old Bridge congregation will move to Marlboro

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Coincidence or divine intervention? Call it what you will, but just as the congregants of Bris Avrohom of Old Bridge were in need of a larger worship space, a house of worship in Marlboro went up for sale. Rabbi Yossi Kanelsky appeared with attorney Kenneth Pape before the…

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