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BUSINESS BRIEFS
First Aid & CPR LLC, Manalapan, is helping to make schools compliant with Janet’s Law, which requires all public and nonpublic schools to have automated external defibrillators on site. The new law also calls for schools to establish emergency action plans to respond to sudden cardiac events, in order to be as prepared as possible…
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Marlboro Day set for Sept. 14
MARLBORO — On Sept. 14 at the municipal complex, the township will celebrate its 31st annual Marlboro Day event featuring vendors, food, entertainment, rides and fun. Marlboro Day’s main vendor area will contain several rows of vendors, representing doctor’s offices, arts and crafts creators, fitness classes, chiropractors, tutors, schools and more. Among the groups in…
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Resident celebrates 107th birthday
Katherine Woodruff MANALAPAN — Katherine Woodruff, formerly of Marlboro, a resident of the Pine Brook Rehabilitation and Care Center, Pension Road, recently celebrated her 107th birthday with a party held in her honor. Born in 1907 in Phillipsburg, the family later moved to Bayonne. Katherine was one of 10 children, all of whom were talented…
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New program led to decline in tax appeals
I am proud to announce that Moody’s Investors Service, a trusted bond credit rating business, has recognized Monmouth County’s 28 percent decline in total property tax appeals in 2014. This decline is largely due to reforms to the county’s property valuation, inspection and appeals procedures. The county’s reforms stemmed from participating in the Real Property…
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Public education, private sector needs differ
I am writing in response to the recent decision by the California courts that teacher tenure laws are unconstitutional. That being said, having worked in public education for 29 years, I do agree that there is a need to reform the tenure laws. Yes, there are incompetent and lazy teachers, and often administrators are too…
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Elected positions are not supposed to be ‘jobs’
A s the important mid-term election approaches, desperate, power-crazed politicians seeking re-election resort to their same pathetic tricks to give the economy an artificial stimulus and make us feel better so we will be conned into voting again for them. The most obvious examples are the various highly visible road-related projects, including resurfacing that is…
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A lone horse is a picture of solitude in a field off Davis Station Road, Upper Freehold Township, on Sept. 6.
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Freezing for a good cause
CentraState Healthcare System employees, left to right, Jeff Anderson, Angie Yu, Hazen Yu, Matthew Gracon and Betty Baker take part in the ALS “Ice Bucket Challenge” outside the Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus in Freehold Township on Aug. 30. The campaign has raised tens of millions of dollars that will be used to conduct…
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Contract for improvements to Marlboro village awarded
By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer MARLBORO — Streetscape improvements on Route 79 (Main Street) are the beginning steps of a plan for an envisioned downtown area in Marlboro. A contract totaling $580,889 was awarded to S. Batata Construction at the Aug. 14 meeting of the Township Council for the construction of several streetscape improvements along…
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