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Teachers union’s demands are out of step with present economy
Marlboro senior citizens are probably aware by now that for the first time in three decades, there will be no yearly cost of living increase in their next year’s Social Security check and probably in 2011 as well. Seniors will once again be asked to make sacrifices as the nation’s weak economy aimlessly lingers on.…
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Fundraiser to support breast cancer research
Four Boys Ice Cream and Luncheonette, 4 Tennent Road, Englishtown, will host a fundraiser in honor of LuAnn Becker, a breast cancer survivor diagnosed in 2008. She is also the sister-in-law of Peter and Joann Becker, Four Boys’ owners. All tips collected at Four Boys from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 11 will be…
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Marlboro reaches deal with blue collar union
By Rebecca Morton Marlboro reaches deal with blue collar union MARLBORO — After some tense negotiations between the two sides, a contract agreement has finally been reached between the township’s representatives and Marlboro’s blue collar employees. The Marlboro Township Council voted 4-0 on Oct. 1 to approve the contract between Marlboro and the Communications Workers…
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Colonials stay in the hunt for B North Division title
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Freehold High School girls soccer coach Elyse Ingui is in an unfamiliar position this fall. “It’s a new role for me; I’m seeing a team built,” she said. In her first two years on the sidelines, Ingui had a veteran group of players who were an established entity. With the…
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Joseph L. Menville
Mr. Menville, 88, of Union Beach, died Sept. 6, 2009, at Bayshore Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Holmdel. He served with the Army Signal Corps in World War II. Mr. Menville retired from Williamsburg Savings Bank, Brooklyn, N.Y., as a mortgage supervisor in 1981. He was a fourth degree knight in the Knights of Columbus, St.…
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Uniform retirement ceremony was very moving to local family
Thanks to Tim Morris, staff writer for the News Transcript, for the kind article he wrote regarding the retirement of our son Chris’ football number on Sept. 26 prior to the Manalapan High School football game against Toms River North High School. We as a family would like to thank everyone who was connected with…
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Savings from school closing have already disappeared
Guest Column • Amy Fankhauser The Howell Township K-8 School District Board of Education and administration have begun next year’s (2010-11) school budget process and guess what it will mean to the taxpayers of Howell? Once again the administration is warning that the budget will cost us more then the 4 percent increase the state…
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Program will teach reading of Hebrew
Throughout the month of November 2009, members of Western Monmouth’s Jewish community will gather at Freehold Jewish Center. Broad Street, Freehold, to participate in the only continent-wide campaign aimed at teaching North American Jews to read the Hebrew language. Conceived and orchestrated by the National Jewish Outreach Program (NJOP) in 1998, Read Hebrew America/Canada is…
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Freehold council holds off on support for new building
By Clare Marie Celano Freehold council holds off on support for new building FREEHOLD — A developer’s proposal to demolish a pre-Civil War home and replace it with a new office building in Freehold Borough did not receive the support of the Borough Council on Oct. 5. Representatives of Fox Associates recently asked municipal officials…
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