• Enter video contest to highlight hunger

    Nearly 50 million Americans, including 17 million children, suffer from food insecurity, according to Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger relief charity. Yet the issue of hunger is not easily described, making those who suffer from it hard to identify. The hungry could be the parent who skips meals to ensure there is enough…

  • Police Explorers earn honors, promotions

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Promotions and awards in the ranks of the Marlboro Police Explorers were presented to the youths in blue during the Feb. 4 meeting of the Marlboro Township Council. Marlboro Township Police Explorer Post 105 was founded in 1982. The program is open to students between the ages of…

  • Entries sought for Belmar art exhibit

    The Belmar Arts Council (BAC) announces a call for submissions to its “Walk the Line” drawing exhibition. The show is open to artists age 17 and older working in graphite, ink, or other drawing/ linear medium. This year’s juror will be Marcel Franquelin, who received a traditional artistic education in France, at Les Beaux-Arts and…

  • In the Service

    Coast Guard seamen Tyler S. Brady and Eliza M. Henry recently graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May. During the eight-week training program, Brady and Henry completed a training curriculum consisting of academics and practical instruction on water safety and survival, military customs and courtesies, seamanship skills, first aid, firefighting…

  • Horse farm enters preservation; town to close on second parcel

    BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — Township Committeeman Don Holland announced at the Jan. 27 meeting of the Manalapan Township Committee that officials have closed on the purchase of the Sherman farm. The property is a 58-acre horse farm on McCaffrey Road. Owner Michael Sherman raises horses and breeds horses on the property. T…

  • Play will benefit scholarship fund

    Center Players, Freehold’s resident theater company, will present a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues,” directed by Judy Spiegel and Bernice Garfield–Szita, at 8 p.m. Feb. 19-20 at Applewood Estates’ Performing Arts Center, 1 Applewood Drive, off Gully Road, Freehold Township. An additional performance will be held at 2 p.m. Feb. 21 at…

  • Pair charged with scamming customers at car dealership

    Two Colts Neck residents who operated used car centers in East Brunswick were arrested last week and charged with stealing $229,000 from a real estate investor and about $500,000 from 32 individuals and companies who gave them vehicles to sell on consignment. Brett Golkin, 47, and Peter Schladebeck, 46, allegedly sold 32 vehicles, valued at…

  • Arrest made in connection with Manalapan robbery

    Acting Special Agent In Charge Kevin Cruise of the FBI’s Newark Field Office has announced the arrest of Scott Mackay Jr., 47, of Toms River, in connection with multiple bank robberies in Ocean and Monmouth counties. Mackay was arrested on Jan. 30. According to the criminal complaint, the Wachovia Bank at 108 Lacey Road in…

  • Couple recovering after transplant

    Marlboro woman donated a kidney to her husband BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Ellyn and Roy Glazer MARLBORO — When Ellyn Glazer found out her kidney was the match her husband Roy needed, she never wavered in her resolve to save her husband’s life. “You would do anything for your husband and kids,” she said.…

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