• Census 2010: Will Roosevelt be counted?

    Onus placed on residents due to unique mail situation BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer The U.S. Census Bureau claims the country can’t move forward until residents have mailed their census forms back, but it never sent questionnaires to Roosevelt. Census Day, the climax survey day for the rest of the U.S. population, came and went…

  • New middle school near completion

    Project on time and under budget BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Upper Freehold Regional elementary and middle school students won’t have to squeeze into school come September. JEFF GRANIT staff Upper Freehold Regional Middle School Project Manager Bill Skillman explains how the solar panels on top of the new middle school will generate energy and…

  • Movie tickets: You’ll have to hock the family jewels

    CODA GREG BEAN I try not to sound like one of those old geezers who bore the pants off younger folk by telling them over and over again how much better things were back in the Olden Days.   But I will take a little skip down memory lane by noting that the first time…

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    Sky Blue FC will celebrate its 2009 championship at its April 11 home opener when it hosts the Chicago Red Stars at Yurcak Field on the campus of Rutgers University, Piscataway. The current schedule has 24 matches, four more than last year. For a limited time, Sky Blue FC is offering an exclusive season ticket…

  • Redbirds’ QB Eccles receives scholar-athlete-leader award

    Allentown’s Sean Eccles was honored at the annual Delaware Valley Chapter of the College Hall of Fame Scholar-Leader-Athlete Awards Banquet. In this event, a football player from each school in the area is recognized for his academic achievement, leadership and athleticism. Eccles was selected this year to represent Allentown. Eccles was a four-year player who…

  • Freehold Raceway raises purses

    For the second time is six weeks, Freehold Raceway will be raising its purses, bringing the total increase to 60 percent. The new purse structure, announced by the Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New Jersey (SBOANJ) and Freehold Raceway, goes into effect today (March 31) and will reflect a 30 percent increase since the…

  • Peddie star Peters selected to play in All-American game

    Peddie School senior guard Haley Peters was selected to play in the 2010 McDonald’s All-American girls basketball game on March 31. Red Bank’s Haley Peters (l), a senior at The Peddie School, has been named the 2009- 10 New Jersey Gatorade Girls Basketball Player of the Year. She played in the McDonald’s All-American game March…

  • NJSBA survey finds almost all school districts expect layoffs

    Nearly 93 percent of New Jersey’s school districts expect to lay off staff – with the large majority of those districts looking at teaching staff reductions – due to state aid cuts in the coming school year, according to a survey by the New Jersey School Boards Association (NJSBA). According to a press release, NJSBA…

  • Millstone school budget eliminates 16 positions

    BY JANE MEGGITT Correspondent MILLSTONE — The district will retain its bus drivers if the school budget passes on April 20. If not, transportation will be outsourced. At the March 29 public hearing on the budget, Board of Education President Tom Foley said that the drivers, originally scheduled to be axed to save $250,000, would…

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