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In pop culture age, chess still has appeal
Chess school offers instruction, tournaments Playing video games and Wii are the current recreational rages, but the centuries-old game of chess still has appeal due to one important advantage. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Below: Dylan Fitzgerald, 7, plays a game of chess the Monmouth Chess School and Club’s “Early March Quads,” a novice class.…
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Judge issues 30-month sentence to developer
Monmouth County developer Steven Meiterman was sentenced on March 31 to 30 months in prison for bribing a sewerage authority official with thousands of dollars in architectural drawings to gain favor in getting sewerage service to Meiterman projects in Marlboro, acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra Jr., announced. U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton also…
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Manalapan seeks grants to help develop 3 trails
MANALAPAN — Initial steps are being taken by municipal officials to implement the Manalapan Trails Plan. At its meeting on March 25, the Township Committee passed a resolution to seek funding for a pilot program to create three trails. The pilot projects for trails would be: • A connecting trail along Manalapan Brook to link…
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Burglar targets Holiday North home
BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer MANALAPAN — A Holiday Road home was boldly burglarized on the morning of April 5 in the presence of neighbors while the family who owns the home was at church. The Manalapan Police Department is investigating the burglary. A female family member of the home that was targeted said she…
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Horvath, Sutera vie for Manalapan seat
BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer T wo residents of Manalapan are seeking election to represent the township on the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education. Under the board’s voting system, residents of Manalapan and Englishtown will vote for the Manalapan representative in the April 21 school election. The candidates for the three-year term…
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Three seats on board up for grabs April 21
BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer On Election Day, April 21, voters in the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District, will elect three members to the Board of Education. Voters in Manalapan will elect two representatives to three-year terms and voters in Englishtown will elect one representative to a three-year term. There are four people running for two…
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Budget will be introduced
MARLBORO — Municipal officials will hold a special meeting on April 20 to introduce the 2009 municipal budget. The meeting will be held at Town Hall at 8 p.m. During the Township Council’s meeting on April 2, council President Steve Rosenthal said the administration has been making cuts in all possible areas. He said hard…
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Photographers recognized in state press association contest
G reater Media Newspapers photographers won three awards in the New Jersey Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for 2008. Eric Sucar, Portrait, second place The newspaper group, based in Freehold, N.J., publishes 12 weeklies, serving Monmouth, Middlesex and Ocean counties. Jeff Granit and Eric Sucar were among the journalists honored at the NJPA awards banquet…
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Former Marlboro man produces ‘The Doctors’
BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer People seeking health-related information can find some of the answers they are looking for by watching or asking questions of the professionals on the CBS-TV show “The Doctors.” People who receive information delivered by the daytime television show can thank Andrew Scher, a former Marlboro resident who is one of…
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