• Evening of Excellence honors many students

    BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — Students, parents and administrators gathered in the Wemrock Brook School cafetorium on June 8 to join Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Board of Education members as they recognized student achievers at the annual Evening of Excellence. Principals from each of the district’s six elementary schools presented certificates to students…

  • CBA begins construction on new library, science labs

    Phase two of Project 50th expected to be completed by September 2011 BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer The campus of Christian Brothers Academy, Lincroft, is undergoing a three-phase renovation as part of Project 50th. Ground was broken June 12 for the new library and science facility. MIDDLETOWN — After celebrating the school’s 50th anniversary, administrators…

  • Manalapan students visiting Greece, Italy

    Three teachers and nine students from Manalapan High School are currently enjoying the trip of a lifetime: Greece and Italy. Friends and family members at home may follow the trip at the Internet website discoverystudentsadventures.com /destinations/blogs. Teachers Lisa Rizzo-Troxell, Jacqueline Wojtasczek and Travis Newman are accompanying students Cara Boxer, Danielle Carr, Lyndsey Cleary, Anita Hicks,…

  • Students & seniors share life lessons

    BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Students from the Catena School, Freehold Township, shared fun and friendship with residents of the Monmouth Crossing assisted living facility on June 14. FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — “Children bring life.” That is what they say at the Monmouth Crossing assisted living facility in Freehold Township. Monmouth Crossing was full of life…

  • on campus •••

    Daniel Halbstein of Freehold, who is a theory/composition major at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester. Stefanie Koenig of Freehold received a Bachelor of Arts in art history, summa cum laude, and Spanish, magna cum laude, from Tufts University, Medford, Mass. Samantha Saks,…

  • Freehold K-8 district presses case for additional state aid

    Sup’t: Schools are over capacity and not getting fair share of New Jersey funding BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — The Freehold Borough School District has been in trouble for some time, according to administrators, and a tough economy and rising enrollment have only made things worse. Freehold Borough’s pre-kindergarten to eighth grade…

  • Kathryn “Kay” Oesmann Shapiro

    Mrs. Shapiro, 73, of The Villages, Howell, died June 30, 2010, at home. She was born in Boston and was raised in Lexington, Mass., and Leonia. She was a graduate of Leonia High School and Brookdale Community College, Lincroft section of Middletown. Mrs. Shapiro retired from the Division of Developmental Disabilities, Freehold. Prior to that,…

  • Christine Eleanor Briggs Murrell

    Mrs. Murrell, 31, of Katy, Texas, died June 19, 2010, at home, after a short battle with lung cancer. She was a graduate of the Freehold Township High School class of 1997. She went on to graduate from Rutgers University, and then Syracuse University, where she earned a master’s degree. Mrs. Murrell was a junior…

  • Isabel Louise Lemcheck

    Isabel Louise Lemcheck, 90, of Howell, died June 21, 2010, at Care One at Wall. Surviving are four grandchildren, Louise Meserve, Raymond Curtin Jr., Joh’ni Kimberlin and Joseph Curtin; 11 great-grandchildren; and two great-great- grandchildren. A funeral service was held at the First Presbyterian Church, Freehold, followed by interment at Old Tennent Cemetery, Tennent section…

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