• Voters OK tax levy for FRHSD

    Superintendent’s reaction is one word: ‘relieved’ BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer In the end, the voters in Marlboro, Freehold Township and Farmingdale carried the day for the Freehold Regional High School District’s 2009-10 budget on April 21. The district’s Board of Education asked voters to approve a $112.8 million general fund tax levy to support…

  • Voters OK tax levy for schools

    Sims, Lichardi, MacCutcheon elected to school board in Freehold Borough BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — By a margin of 14 votes, Freehold Borough voters approved a $7.9 million tax levy to support the Board of Education’s $20 million budget for the 2009-10 school year on Election Day, April 21. The election saw…

  • Family and friends help out ‘a trouper’

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer The black cloud. That is how 28-yearold Christy Szabocsik-Jarosz, a native of Manalapan, and her husband, Steve, have referred to Christy’s whirlwind past year of being diagnosed with brain cancer and hemophagocyctic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare, life-threatening disorder of the immune system that attacks a body’s red blood cells. Steve…

  • Officers are on time to deliver early baby

    Freehold Twp. policemen had all the right training to assist local couple BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Four township police officers made a new friend on April 7. His name is Kian Esmalla and the four officers helped to bring the 6-pound, 12- ounce baby boy into the world. Calling the…

  • Knowledge Beginnings gains board’s approval

    Approval conditioned on suitability of detention basin BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Knowledge Beginnings has received Planning Board approval to construct a 9,975-square-foot child care facility with an outdoor play area at the corner of Route 79 and Old Mill Road. The facility will be on a 3-acre lot. The property is owned…

  • If the slipper fits…

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Patsy Palma, of Sayreville, as the prince, tries the glass slipper on Cinderella, portrayed by Perri Lauren, of Marlboro, during a rehearsal of “Cinderella,” which is being staged by the Marlboro Community Players at the Marlboro Middle School, Route 520, Marlboro, on May 1-3 and May 8-10. For more information visit the website…

  • Bruno wins FRHSD seat

    BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer HOWELL — After many years spent working as a teacher, coach and administrator in the Freehold Regional High School District, Bill Bruno has a new position: school board member. Bruno won election as a Howell representative to the FRHSD Board of Education in the April 21 school election. He was…

  • Family wants to get word out about VHL

    Cheeburger, Cheeburger on Route 9, Manalapan, will host event May 4 BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — Ariel Reinish, 20, of Manalapan, wants to get the word out to the public about a fundraiser she is spearheading to help fight von Hippel-Landau disease (VHL), a disease that affects two members of her family. When…

  • Tough times hurting town’s revenue stream

    Public hearing on budget scheduled for May 21 in Freehold Borough BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — A public hearing on Freehold Borough’s $14 million operating budget for 2009 will be held in Borough Hall at 5:30 p.m. May 21. Members of the Borough Council introduced the budget on April 20. The 2009…

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