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BUSINESS BRIEFS
Charles Schwab, a provider of full-service brokerage services, has opened a new independent branch at 3425 Route 9, Suite 101, Freehold. The new location is led by Schwab independent branch leader Rebecca Proske, a financial services professional with 16 years of experience in investing and financial planning. Prior to joining Schwab’s independent branch network, Proske…
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Students share thoughts, ideas in philosophy club
By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent Philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said, “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” The members of the new Allentown High School Philosophy Club have adopted that quote as the organization’s mission statement. Seniors Nick Boston and Brendan Fernes co-founded the club this year.…
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Responses show far-reaching impact of drug addiction
A fter I lost my 21-year-old cousin Courtney to a heroin overdose in September, Greater Media Newspapers ran a column that I wrote about her life and the grief that overtook my family. I received numerous responses from readers, most of whom knew well the wreckage and heartbreak that heroin addiction spawns. Some lost children,…
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Library interim director announced
With the retirement of longtime Monmouth County Library Director Kenneth Sheinbaum on Dec. 31, the Monmouth County Library Commission has announced the appointment of Judith Tolchin as interim director. Tolchin, who has given 22 years of service at the Monmouth County Library, currently holds the position of branch manager/chief librarian at library headquarters in Manalapan,…
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Three plead guilty in ‘Baby Bones’ case
Three New York residents pleaded guilty on Dec. 19 to charges related to the 2005 discovery of skeletal remains in an Upper Freehold Township park that were later identified as a child who died several years before, Monmouth County Acting Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced. Likisha Jones, 39, and Godfrey Gibson, 49, both of Manhattan,…
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Origami students prove it is never too late to learn
By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Dorothy Kaplan loves to create origami. In fact, she pretty much has paper with her all the time — just to be on the safe side — in case the mood strikes her to create a crane, an angel, a frog or any other number of papercrafted designs; or…
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Millstone school leaders say shared services work
By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent The Millstone Township School District, which already shares certain services with the Upper Freehold Regional School District, has expanded its roster of shared services to include the Roosevelt Public School in Roosevelt. Millstone Township is a K-8 district, Upper Freehold Regional is a K-12 district, and Roosevelt has one school, which…
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Changing times challenge retailers
By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer A sign advertises available space in the Epicentre shopping plaza on Route 9 in Manalapan. The vacancy rate for retail space in central New Jersey climbed to 9.8 percent in the second quarter of 2013. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Storefront vacancies have blemished many of New Jersey’s busiest retail corridors…
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