• Festival to offer taste of Spain

    By AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Valeria Aguilar sings at last year’s Feria de Sevilla dance and live music festival. Residents of central New Jersey will get to experience the feel of Spain’s traditional April festival when Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre presents its second annual Feria de Sevilla this month at Parker Press Park, Rahway Avenue.…

  • Volunteers sought for help group

    180 Turning Lives Around, a private nonprofit organization in Monmouth County, continues to provide support and advocacy for victims of sexual violence in the aftermath of a highly emotional and traumatic experience with the assistance of its dedicated response team volunteers. 180 will be conducting a 50-hour Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) training course from…

  • Freehold Soil offers college scholarships

    The Freehold Soil Conservation District will award three scholarships of $2,000 each to students majoring in a conservationrelated field. All applicants for the Neal Munch, Mac Clark and Bill Schauer scholarships must be residents of Monmouth or Middlesex counties; entering their junior or senior year of college by this fall; and majoring in a field…

  • Monmouth County freeholders adopt $480.9 million budget

    The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders has adopted a $480.9 million budget for 2014. The budget holds the amount to be raised by taxation flat for the fourth year in a row, according to a press release. The budget plan reflects a continuing effort by the freeholders to reduce county spending while dealing with increased…

  • Office building approved

    MARLBORO — Despite some lingering concerns, the Marlboro Planning Board has granted preliminary and final approval to an applicant who plans to build a two-story office building on Tennent Road. At the board’s March 19 meeting, Genesis Associates received the green light to construct an office building with 8,500 square feet of floor area at…

  • BUSINESS BRIEFS

    LADACIN Network, a nonprofit agency serving people with disabilities in Monmouth and Ocean counties, has been awarded its 10th consecutive three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. According to a press release, the mission of the LADACIN Network is to provide education, therapy, social, residential and support services for people with cerebral…

  • Howell panel considers redistricting for 2015-16

    By GREG KENNELTY HOWELL — The redistricting of students in the Howell K-8 School District is beginning to be discussed once more by the members of the Board of Education’s facilities committee. “We are moving boundary lines for (the 2015-16) school year. It was postponed (for 2014-15), but we decided that it needed to be…

  • Shared-services agreement places officers in schools

    By JACK MURTHA MARLBORO — A shared-services agreement between the township and the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education should keep students safe at a lower cost to the municipality. At its March 20 meeting, the Marlboro Township Council approved the agreement, which provides for one school resource officer to patrol the district’s K-5…

  • Gala proceeds will benefit annual Police Unity Tour

    The Marlboro Policemen’s Benevolent Association Local 196, the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 15 and the Freehold Borough PBA Local 159 hosted the agencies’ fifth annual “Salute to Community Excellence Charity Gala” on March 29. The event was held at the American Hotel, Freehold. Proceeds will benefit the Marlboro Township police officers’ and the Freehold…

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