• $825K grant to help Marlboro acquire open space parcels

    By PETER ELACQUA Staff Writer MARLBORO — The township is the recipient of a state Green Acres matching grant in the amount of $825,000 from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Garden State Preservation Trust through the Planning Incentive Grant program. Capt. Shital Rajan, who chairs Marlboro’s Open Space Committee, said…

  • Residents return home; investigation into fire begins

    By JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer A fire has been burning for days at the DCH Collision Center on Livingston Avenue in North Brunswick since first igniting around 2:30 a.m. on July 22. PHOTO COURTESY OF KEN TERNLUND NORTH BRUNSWICK — Residents who were evacuated due to a massive warehouse fire in North Brunswick last week…

  • Planned sale of care centers to be discussed at public hearings

    By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer Public hearings concerning the proposed sale of two Monmouth County care centers are scheduled for August. One care center is in Freehold Township and one care center is in Wall Township. After decades of operation by the county, both facilities will be sold by public auction as the county steps…

  • Manalapan will cancel deal with soccer club for fields

    MANALAPAN — One year after granting the Manalapan Soccer Club the right to use municipal property for soccer fields, the Township Committee will repeal the ordinance that put the agreement in place. At its meeting on July 8, the Township Committee voted 3-0 to introduce an ordinance repealing a 2014 law that gave the soccer…

  • Cause of house fire remains unknown

    By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer ENGLISHTOWN — The cause of a fire that destroyed a home at 2 Park Ave., Englishtown, on the morning of March 9 remains unknown. “The cause of the fire is undetermined,” Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Charles Webster said this week. The investigation into the fire was conducted by the…

  • Police officer will be on duty at Marlboro High School

    By PETER ELACQUA Staff Writer MARLBORO – The Township Council has agreed to provide a School Resource Officer (SRO) to the Freehold Regional High School District and to station that individual at Marlboro High School. The council took the action at its July 16 meeting. Municipal officials agreed they will “assign not less than one…

  • DATEBOOK

    Lindsay Nolan, daughter of Steve and Diane Nolan of Marlboro, has been named to the dean’s list for the 2015 spring semester at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York. Lindsay, who is a 2012 Marlboro High School graduate, is majoring in health sciences. Michael Nolan, son of Steve and Diane Nolan of Marlboro, graduated…

  • Creative expression flourishes at Around the Corner Art Center

    By CHRISTINE BARCIA Staff Writer Merrill Tilker, left, and Mark Kolessar, owners of the Around the Corner Art Center, Freehold Township. CHRISTINE BARCIA/STAFF FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Budding and seasoned artists alike have had a place here to call home for more than three decades. The Around the Corner Art Center, 290 Mount’s Corner Drive, Freehold…

  • Home designer has flair for trend-setting work

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent Dionne Trifiro, a Millstone Township resident who is the senior designer at Christopher Peacock, New York, designed this kitchen in a country estate on Long Island. Dionne Trifiro of Millstone Township was raised in the small European nation of Malta, but she left her home as a young adult at the…

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