• SPORT SHORTS

    Marlboro High School’s Alexis Bartelloni started the 2014-15 indoor track and field season on the right foot. The senior won the girls 1,600-meter run at the Spiked Shoe Holiday Festival which was held at the 168th Street Armory in New York City. Her winning time was 5:13.8. Bartelloni also ran the 800 meters and finished…

  • County Relays kick off indoor championship season

    Howell High School’s Victoria Caufield ran the anchor leg for the Rebels’ 4×200-meter relay team that finished seventh at the Monmouth County Relays held Jan. 2 at the Bennett Indoor Complex in Toms River. PHOTOS BY MATT DENTON At the first championship meet of the indoor track and field season, Freehold Regional High School District…

  • Swimming at the Ritz

    New Jersey Repertory Company presents “Swimming at the Ritz,” based on the life of socialite Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, who was appointed the U.S. ambassador to France in 1993 by former President Bill Clinton. The show will have a limited engagement from Jan. 8 to Feb. 1. Harriman was dubbed the ultimate “party girl”…

  • Picado-Friedman

    MILESTONES Zahava Picado and Samuel Friedman Ida Kosoffsky of Freehold has announced the engagement of her granddaughter, Zahava Picado, to Samuel Friedman, son of Erica and Eric Friedman of Manalapan. The future bride graduated from Moshe Aaron Yeshiva High School, South River, and Montclair State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in…

  • ON CAMPUS

    Lauren M. Maskowitz of Manalapan, daughter of Theresa and Jordan Maskowitz, graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University in May 2014 with a bachelor of science in nursing. Lauren, who was named to the dean’s list for the spring 2014 semester, is a registered nurse at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. She is a 2010 graduate of…

  • Resident surprises intruder in house

    MANALAPAN — Police are investigating an incident in which a resident said he confronted an intruder inside his home. Police said that on Dec. 23 at 7:36 p.m., Sgt. Michael Hoppock and patrolmen Christopher Makwinski, Philip Accatatta and Edward Hedden responded to the area of Freehold-Englishtown Road (Route 522) for a report of a burglar…

  • Superintendent preparing for pupils who refuse test

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer The Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District is one of many districts preparing for the possibility that parents may refuse to allow their children to take the state-mandated Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) testing in March. In an interview, Superintendent of Schools John J. Marciante Jr. explained…

  • Many questions surround the PARCC test

    I am writing in response to Managing Editor Mark Rosman’s recent column, “Attention Must Be Paid to Parents’ Views on Testing.” What Howell K-8 School District Superintendent of Schools Joseph Isola neglects to mention is that there are significant concerns with the PARCC test and with Pearson, the corporation responsible for creating the PARCC test…

  • Questions remain about concrete crusher

    Why does Marlboro need another concrete crushing facility in the Morganville area when there are already two operating between Tennent and Amboy roads? That is one of the questions the Marlboro Zoning Board of Adjustment needs to ask 631 Associates at a public hearing to be held Jan. 13 at Town Hall. Other questions: …

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