• Beck: Feds should help pay to educate refugees

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer State Sen. Jennifer Beck is well-aware of the recent influx of Central American children fleeing their homes to seek refuge in the United States. This week, the senator said she wants to make certain that “federal agencies and representatives are contemplating the possibility that the federal government may have…

  • News of immigrant youths leads to questions in town

    RON GRIFFITHS he headline “Immigrant Children Arriving” hit the front page of the News Transcript recently and the discussion began. The accounts of these arrivals seem as clear as the proverbial Mississippi mud. At the Aug. 4 Borough Council meeting in Freehold Borough, residents provided three accounts of these children. The ages of the children…

  • Goldman Act bolsters fight for return of abducted children

    By ADAM C. UZIALKO Staff Writer Capt. Paul Toland, from left, whose daughter was kidnapped in Japan; Bindu Philips of Plainsboro, whose two sons were abducted to India; and David Goldman, whose son was abducted to Brazil and returned after a five-year ordeal, joined Rep. Chris Smith in calling for passage of the Goldman Act…

  • Policy limits communication between students and staff

    By JEREMY GROSSMAN Staff Writer Electronic communication between students and staff members will be limited to district-issued email addresses if a proposed policy is adopted by the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education. Under the terms of the policy, students and staff members would not be permitted to communicate via personal email accounts…

  • Play to have debut in NYC

    By AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Freehold Township’s Playground Theatre Project (PTP) has taken an original, new play to the New York International Fringe Festival for the second year in a row. Performances will take place Aug. 15, 16, 17 and 22 at The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th St., New York City. Fresh off a…

  • Marlboro residents should protest new law

    A merica has a strong history of civil disobedience. From Patrick Henry and our founders defying the monarchy of England, Frederick Douglass and the fight against slavery, the brave women of the suffrage movement, the civil rights movement, and hundreds of other battles, Americans have fought to assert the freedoms promised in the Bill of…

  • Action needed now to restore democracy

    I magine that the United States is still a democracy, that the big money in politics from corporations and the wealthy had not given these special interests control of our government and drowned out the voices of most Americans. If democracy still reigned, would our “representatives” be debating such issues as the relative rights of…

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    Riders swing past a glowing sunset at the Italian Festival of Ocean Township, held at Joe Palaia Park, Oakhurst.

  • Millstone artist’s ox will have a place in ‘stampede’

    By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent Judith Mazzucco MILLSTONE — “Oxymoron” is the most controversial bovine creation that will graze in the Hopewell Valley Stampede beginning in mid-August, according to its creator, Judith Mazzucco of Millstone Township, who is an artist and vegetarian. Mazzucco is looking forward to setting “Oxymoron” free to join a so-called stampede of…

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