• Higgins was noted for service to Freehold

    Funeral home director sat on many boards, worked with civic groups BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer When Jim Higgins died on Jan. 30, Freehold Borough lost a quiet philanthropist, a devoted civic and community volunteer, a consummate storyteller who remembered facts as well as legends, and a dear friend. Jim Higgins Higgins, 88, was…

  • Church reaches out to Haiti

    Members of Manalapan congregation have family in devastated nation BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent The Community Refuge Church of Christ in Manalapan, Sobechko Road, Manalapan, has established the Help Haiti Project – Rebuilding Haiti One Brick at a Time to assist Haitians whose lives were devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake in the Caribbean nation. Many…

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    Marlboro Middle School pupils add another donation to the pile during a clothing and toy drive that members of the school’s Jazz Band and Show Choir conducted on Jan. 30 to raise money for a trip to Florida. The Jazz Band and Show Choir will perform at Walt Disney World in Orlando during spring break.…

  • Looks like we survived the ‘storm of the decade’

    Coda • GREG BEAN By the time this column sees print, the Great Blizzard of 2010, nicknamed “Snowpocalypse” by some creative member of the national press, will just be a memory. You know, before we moved to the East Coast, I used to believe that folks out here were scared of only one thing, and…

  • Attendees’ plan was to disrupt congressman’s meeting

    On Jan. 25 a town meeting was held in the Marlboro Middle School. As I approached the parking area I saw a van parked in an unlit area with people coming out wearing “Tea Party” T-shirts. When I entered the auditorium I saw that the first five rows were occupied by “Tea Party” people, none…

  • Call for a law against keeping exotic animals as pets

    Charla Nash, the woman who was profoundly disfigured after being attacked by her friend’s “pet” chimpanzee, has experienced unimaginable pain and suffering and will suffer for the rest of her life. Around the United States, countless people have been maimed, seriously injured, or killed by tigers, primates, reptiles, bears and other exotic species kept as…

  • Help stop the extinction of New Jersey’s bog turtles

    New Jersey is home to the bog turtle, one of the nation’s 10 most endangered species, according to a new report, America’s Hottest Species. Bog turtles are among the rarest turtles found in the United States. They are also the smallest, reaching only 4 inches long when fully grown, with bright orange patches along the…

  • Find health care solutions that make sense for older Americans

    There is much to feel encouraged about regarding the president’s State of the Union address, but the president and Congress have their work cut out for them. Millions of older Americans face enormous challenges, many of whom work very hard to build nest eggs only to see them crack due to soaring health care costs.…

  • Marlboro resident wants answers about students’ performance

    The epicenter of academic and economic fraud, the Freehold Regional High School District, is at it again. For the 2009-10 school year, the school district has failed federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandates known as Annual Yearly Progress (AYP). Three of six FRHSD high schools have failed either math or language arts proficiencies. Marlboro…

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