• Marlboro result means drop in school tax rate

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Property owners will see a decrease in the amount of taxes they pay to support the Marlboro K-8 School District after voters approved the tax levy to support the 2009-10 budget. The school election was held on April 21. The 2009-10 budget which totals $84.7 million has a…

  • Hochberg wins Marlboro seat on Freehold Regional board

    MARLBORO — Barry Hochberg has won a two-year unexpired term to represent Marlboro on the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education. Unofficial totals from the April 21 election showed Hochberg with 1,124 votes, David Wolff with 1,120 votes and Gordon Loeb with 1,073 votes. Under the FRHSD’s voting system, residents of Marlboro and…

  • DECA students head to U.S. competition

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer COLTS NECK — Nine businessminded students at Colts Neck High School ranked high enough at a recent state DECA competition to qualify for the chance to compete in California. According to its Internet website, DECA is an international association of high school and college students studying marketing, management and entrepreneurship…

  • Teachers turn out to ask for contract

    Marlboro teachers make offer to be bound by fact-finder’s report BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Almost 500 members of the Marlboro Township Education Association (MTEA) filled the auditorium of the Marlboro Middle School on April 20 to protest the lack of a contract between the union and the Marlboro K-8 School District Board…

  • Towns’ governments to review school tab

    Manalapan & Englishtown voters reject tax levy BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer In the coming weeks the governing bodies in Manalapan and Englishtown will be called upon to review the budget that was proposed by Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Board of Education for the 2009-10 school year. On Election Day, April 21, voters in Manalapan…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Lumivi and Emilio Esmalla and their son, Kyle, 3, get a visit from the Freehold Township police officers who helped deliver baby Kian Esmalla on April 7. Police officers (l-r) Joseph Winowski, Sgt. Daniel F. Pasquinucci, Andrew R. Galaydick and Karl White visited the family on April 23.

  • Voters reject tax levy

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer COLTS NECK — Voters turned down the Colts Neck K-8 School District’s proposed tax levy for the 2009-10 school year during the annual school election April 21. The Board of Education’s proposed $23.5 million budget for the upcoming school year called for a general fund tax levy of $19.2 million.…

  • Novel addresses problems in pharmaceutical industry

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Dr. Michael Rushnak was visited by a drug company representative in 1979. Dr. Michael Rushnak The marketing salesperson, who did not have a clinical medical background, was trying to market the new drug Selacryn, which at the time was advertised to be the best blood pressure pill ever. Rushnak, a…

  • Howell council members to review school budget

    HOWELL — The Township Council will have the task of reviewing the Howell Board of Education’s proposed budget for the 2009- 10 school year. In the April 21 school election, voters rejected a proposed $71.9 million general fund tax levy that would have raised property taxes by about $105 for the owner of a home…

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