• Bake sale will aid youngster fighting tumor

    Sanzio Salon and Day Spa will hold its ninth annual holiday bake sale from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 18-19 and from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 20 at the salon, 1008 Route 34, Matawan. This year, Mikey Richert, a 10-year-old cousin of a salon employee, is battling a medulloblastoma brain tumor. Mikey…

  • Supermarket will open in Freehold

    By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer FREEHOLD — A building that housed a supermarket for many years will have life once again as a supermarket. Plans are in place for the Freehold Fresh Market to open before the end of the year in a 26,000-square-foot store on Route 33 (Park Avenue). The building was previously occupied…

  • Batansky-Hertz

    Julie and Michael Hertz Julie Danielle Batansky, daughter of Toby Stolberg and Norman Batansky, of Philadelphia, married Michael Ira Hertz, son of Janet and Howard Hertz, of Marlboro, on June 28, 2015. Rabbi Marc Israel of Temple Beth Hillel– Beth El, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, performed the ceremony. The bride was given in marriage by her father,…

  • New law stiffens penalties for swatting perpetrators

    A bill that designates swatting as a felony and establishes more stringent punishments for the crime has been signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie. “It is time to send a message that this is not going to be treated lightly,” said Assemblyman Paul Moriarty (D-Camden, Gloucester), who sponsored the bill and was himself the…

  • Zoning change expected for Route 33 property

    By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Planning Board has signed off on a new planned adult community zone the Township Committee is expected to create by ordinance later this month. In a 6-0 vote on Dec. 2, the Planning Board gave its consent to an ordinance the Township Committee introduced in November.…

  • Englishtown bolsters police force with addition of special officers

    ENGLISHTOWN – The Borough Council has appointed Katelyn Kwiecinski and Michael Makwinski to serve as Class II special law enforcement officers with the Englishtown Police Department. According to Englishtown Police Lt. Peter Cooke, Kwiecinski and Makwinski both attended the Monmouth County Police Academy where they completed their instruction and earned their certification on May 14.…

  • Residents seeking info on housing

    MANALAPAN — The possibility of affordable housing being constructed on a tract of land near their neighborhood has residents of Rockingham Court and Blair Lane asking municipal officials for more information. Both streets are off Taylors Mills Road between Conmack Lane and Pease Road. During the Dec. 9 meeting of the Township Committee, Sheryl Cintron,…

  • Pedestrian struck, killed on Route 9

    MANALAPAN — Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a Manalapan resident. Police said that at 11:30 p.m. Dec. 8, officers responded to Route 9 south near the Gordons Corner Road bus stop for a report of a pedestrian who had been struck by a vehicle. According to Manalapan Deputy Police…

  • DATEBOOK

     A New Year’s Eve dinner dance will be held by the Old Bridge Columbian Club on Dec. 31 at 61 Pine St., Old Bridge (Knights of Columbus meeting hall), from 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Cost is $55 per person (in advance only). Details: 908-510-5693, 423-595-8211 or 732-707-3417.  The First United Methodist Church,…

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