• Effort will give veterans proper military burial

    Every American veteran deserves a proper burial when the time comes. Proper burial, for a veteran, includes military honors by a uniformed honor guard. Unfortunately, the time has come and gone for more than 900 remains of previously cremated veterans from all branches of service in New Jersey. They are veterans whose remains have not…

  • Bumper to bumper

    JEFF GRANIT staff In an accident that occurred on Route 9 north near Ryan Road, Manalapan, April 2, a Mercedes 240 being driven by a 34-year-old woman from Toms River rear-ended a Ford E350 truck being driven by a 43-year-old man from Lakewood, according to Manalapan police. No injuries were reported. According to police, the…

  • On a mission to help AIDS orphans

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, a Red Bank native, is on an international mission to help children orphaned by AIDS and living in households headed by children. Sister Mary Beth Lloyd is surrounded by some of the young children orphaned by AIDS that she ministers to as worldwide mission director for the…

  • Shopping center’s façade to be upgraded

    BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — The Yorktowne shopping center at Pease and Gordons Corner roads will be getting a new look. At its meeting March 26, the Planning Board granted a waiver of site plan approval on an application filed by the shopping center’s owner, Trans Equity Realty LLC. Attorney Kenneth Pape presented…

  • Loeb, Wolff, Hochberg seeking Marlboro seat

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer MARLBORO — Three candidates will vie for the Marlboro seat on the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education in the April 21 school election. The person who is elected will serve the final two years of an unexpired term. The candidates are Gordon Loeb, David Wolff and Barry…

  • The new chamber of life in Millstone Township

    Equine clinic provides hyperbaric oxygen therapy BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer In a cinder block building behind the New Jersey Equine Clinic (NJEC) in Millstone Township, a revolution in the treatment of injuries and infections is taking place. Dr. Scott Palmer, owner of the NJEC, has installed a hyperbaric chamber for his equine clients. The…

  • Green teams tackle climate warming

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent Green Team members from more than 20 municipalities gathered at the Monmouth County agricultural building in Freehold Township on March 21 to listen to speakers discuss ways to reduce energy costs, decrease greenhouse emissions and create a climate plan for their towns. Monmouth County Freeholder Director Barbara J. McMorrow welcomed the…

  • Corzine: Dire times call for tough choices

    Governor defends budget as maintaining priorities BY JENNIFER AMATO and BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writers In the weeks since delivering his $29.8 billion budget proposal, Gov. Jon Corzine has faced criticism for what one New Jersey radio station has described as “the death of the middle class.” Gov. Jon Corzine Much of the backlash stems from…

  • Real estate broker gets OK for office

    MARLBORO — A home on School Road East across from Hudson Street will soon house Avis Realty, after the Planning Board granted minor site plan approval during its March 18 meeting. The applicant, Avis Gardell, of Freehold, said she currently rents an office in Colts Neck. She told the board that the location on School…

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