• Moscow Boys Choir to perform in Freehold

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — The borough will experience a taste of Russia on Dec. 3 when the Moscow Boys Choir performs at the Freehold Presbyterian Church, 118 W. Main St. The world famous choir will bring its Christmas Around the World” concert tour to the church in Freehold Borough in its…

  • Operation Medicine Cabinet offers safe disposal of drugs

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Start cleaning out the medicine cabinet of all unwanted, unused or expired medicine and prepare to take them to local police departments for safe and environmentally sensitive disposal during a statewide day of collection designated as Operation Medicine Cabinet on Nov. 14. More than 400 police departments are participating in Operation…

  • Curley’s win gives GOP control of county govt.

    Middletown resident claims seat on freeholder board BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer The Republican Party exerted its stronghold in Monmouth County on Election Day, Nov. 3, and newly elected Monmouth County Freeholder John P. Curley was part of that overwhelming GOP victory. John P. Curley According to election results posted on the Monmouth County…

  • Human rights violations seen in exhibits

    MARLBORO — Hindu Human Rights watch group is holding several India exhibitions about “Kashmir, Terror Unleashed” and “Bangladesh, the Covert Genocide” at the Marlboro Public Library. According to a press release, these exhibitions show the history to the current situation in which 350,000 Kashmiri Hindus were driven out by Islamic terrorists and have been living…

  • Freehold health student delivers babies in Ghana

    Robert Sullivan of Freehold Township, a fifth-year physician’s assistant student at Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y., spent five weeks during the summer of 2009 studying in Ghana, West Africa, to complete his infectious-disease rotation. PHOTO COURTESY OF WAGNER COLLEGE Robert Sullivan holds the first baby he delivered at the Manso village clinic in Ghana, Africa.…

  • Sheriff will stay until January

    Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno, who was elected as New Jersey’s first lieutenant governor on Nov. 3, has announced that she intends to fulfill her obligations as sheriff until she takes the oath of office as lieutenant governor in January. “It has been my privilege to serve as Monmouth County sheriff since Jan. 1, 2008.…

  • Ammiano, McGirr win 3-year terms

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Republicans maintained complete control of municipal government in Freehold Township as voters re-elected Anthony Ammiano and elected Robert McGirr to three-year terms on the Township Committee on Election Day, Nov. 3. According to election results provided by the township clerk’s office, Ammiano received 7,231 votes and…

  • Throckmorton Street gets new landscaping

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — A project that combines the efforts of Freehold Borough and Monmouth County is helping to create an attractive gateway into town on Throckmorton Street. Richard Gatto, the CEO of Downtown Freehold (formerly the Freehold Center Partnership) said the effort to create an attractive entrance to the municipality…

  • Freehold honors letter carrier for heroic act

    Resident of Kiawah Ave. was aided by former Marine when fire erupted in home BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Letter carrier Jeffrey Vollmar is congratulated by Freehold Borough Councilwoman Sharon Shutzer and other municipal officials in recognition of his help in guiding a woman out of a Kiawah Avenue residence where a fire had…

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