• Police continue to search for suspect in robberies

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Law enforcement agencies in Freehold Township and Colts Neck are continuing to search for a suspect in connection with several robberies that have recently occurred in both communities. The suspect is described as a black male, about 40 years old, with a chubby build, a bald head and bad…

  • Community YMCA to honor volunteers

    The Community YMCA, Red Bank, will honor Marlboro residents Dan Matarese and Chris Mosley for their positive impact on the Y at the organization’s annual benefit on Sept. 27 at Camp Arrowhead, Marlboro. The annual benefit will celebrate the Community YMCA’s 140th anniversary of service in Monmouth County and the many volunteers, donors, community organizations…

  • Home show set for Sept. 20-21

    The region’s top home improvement professionals will gather at the Multipurpose Activity Center on the campus of Monmouth University, West Long Branch, on Sept. 20-21 for the Fall Home Improvement Show. The showcase event for those planning home and landscape projects, renovations, remodeling or new construction, is produced by MAC Events of Toms River. “Homeowners…

  • New Jersey will allow sports betting at racetracks, casinos

    By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Within the next month, representatives of Monmouth Park, Oceanport, expect to see patrons wagering on New York Jets and New York Giants football games and other sporting events. Dennis Drazin, consultant to the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, which operates Monmouth Park, said he hopes to have a betting parlor…

  • Songwriter puts personal experiences into music

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer A.P. Mauro A ccording to Colts Neck resident A.P. Mauro, the hallmark of country music used to be songs about life experiences: hardships, or love, or admiring someone from a distance. But that is not so much the case anymore. “If you listen to more popular country music on the…

  • Dems swap Manalapan candidates

    By MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Two Democrats elected in the June primary to run for a pair of three-year seats on the Manalapan Township Committee have been replaced on the Nov. 4 ballot. In June, Deborah Kurtz and Vincent Pinto received 277 and 275 votes, respectively, in the Democratic primary. Shortly after the primary, Monmouth…

  • Later school start time sought for teens

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Parents know all too well the battle of pulling teenagers out of bed to go to school. Karen Famiglietti would like to change that longstanding tradition and give teenagers a little more time before they begin their school day. Likening her fight to the junk food and soda ban in New Jersey…

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    Visitors to the Marlboro Day community celebration learn the art of a Chinese yo-yo on Sept. 14. Marlboro Day was held at the municipal complex, Wyncrest Road.

  • Former Manalapan mayor convicted in federal court

    By Mark Rosman Seven months after his arrest, Andrew Lucas, a former mayor of Manalapan, was found guilty by a federal jury on 11 criminal counts related to his purchase of a 97-acre farm in Manalapan.   Lucas, 37, will stand before a judge on Jan. 20 in federal court in Trenton and learn the…

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