• Candidate questions tax hike

    Freehold Borough Council adopts $14M budget BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer The Freehold Borough Council has adopted a $14 million operating budget for 2009. Following a review of the budget by state officials, the council adopted the spending plan at a meeting held in Borough Hall on June 15. The 2009 Freehold Borough municipal…

  • Board explores options for Fla. trip

    Marlboro middle school students have hopes to perform at Disney World BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Parents and students who are involved in Marlboro’s middle school music programs were told to be cautiously optimistic that come next April they could be on their way to perform at Walt Disney World in Florida. The Marlboro Board…

  • Darrell Reid to host football camp

    Darrell Reid to host football camp Former Freehold High School gridiron standout Darrell Reid is returning home to conduct a football camp. Reid, who won a Super Bowl ring with the Indianapolis Colts and now plays for the Denver Broncos, will host a free non-contact football camp for boys and girls between the ages of…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Coast Guard rescue swimmer Brian Tricarico helps Ari Tepper, 5, of Manalapan, ride a body board during the Best Day Foundation’s “Best Day at the Beach” event of surfing and body boarding at Seven Presidents Park in Long Branch on June 14. The Best Day New Jersey events are free for youngsters…

  • Raymond A. Kershaw

    Mr. Kershaw, 67, died June 9, 2009, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was born in Camden County and had lived in Ohio before moving to Freehold Township in 1975. Mr. Kershaw had served on the Township Committee in Freehold Township since 1991. Appointed mayor in January 2009, he had also previously held the…

  • Delia L. (Pavia) Valentine

    Mrs. Valentine, 87, died June 7, 2009, at home in the Morganville section of Marlboro. She and her husband, Eugene (Geno) Valentine, resided in Michigan until moving to live with their son and daughter-in-law, Leonard and Maggie Valentine, in December 2008. Mrs. Valentine was preceded in death by her brothers, Art, Felix and Edward Pavia.…

  • Mark Thomas Wilson

    Mr. Wilson, 69, a resident of Colts Neck for 30 years, died June 12, 2009, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. A former U.S. Navy officer, Mr. Wilson was a partner of Gloria Nilson Realtors, Holmdel, before retirement. Surviving are his wife, Connie Wilson; two sons, Mark Manning Wilson and his wife, Katrina, and Andrew James…

  • John S. Agulian

    Mr. Agulian, 84, of the Morganville section of Marlboro, died June 17, 2009, at Pine Brook Care Center in Manalapan. Born in Sidon, Lebanon, he lived in Somerset before moving to Morganville 36 years ago. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Elizabeth; two sons and a daughter-in-law, John Jr. of Morganville and…

  • Joseph Lavinia

    Mr. Lavinia, 93, of Edison, died June 9, 2009. at JFK Medical Center in Edison. Born in New York, he lived in Newark before moving to Edison. Mr. Lavinia worked for Celanese in Newark before joining All Tool in Union. He was predeceased by wife, Dorothy, and son, Joseph. Surviving are his daughters and sons-inlaw,…

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