Tag: Freehold Township

  • Freehold Township planners deny use variance for solar energy facility

    Freehold Township planners deny use variance for solar energy facility

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The members of the Freehold Township Planning Board have voted 6-2 to deny an applicant’s request for a use variance that would have permitted the construction of a solar energy facility at 56 Willow Brook Road. The application filed by Willow Brook Solar was heard during the board’s Sept. 15 meeting by…

  • Freehold Township police lieutenant admits to illegal database access

    Freehold Township police lieutenant admits to illegal database access

    A 27-year veteran of the Freehold Township Police Department has admitted to illegally accessing information from a law enforcement computer database for personal use, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey announced on Sept. 16. Lt. John Todd, 58, pleaded guilty to a count of third degree computer theft during a Sept. 16 hearing before New…

  • Driver in fatal Freehold Township crash receives moving violations summonses

    Driver in fatal Freehold Township crash receives moving violations summonses

    More than two months after three members of the same Marlboro family died in a motor vehicle collision on Route 9 in Freehold Township, the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident remains ongoing. Marlboro residents Masoud B. Salib, 61, Hanaa I. Salib, 52, and Mark M. Salib, 21, died after their vehicle was struck…

  • State budget deserved support from Assembly members

    State budget deserved support from Assembly members

    I am perplexed about a letter from my Legislative District 11 state Assembly members Marilyn Piperno and Kim Eulner. A review of the state ethics regulations prohibits using state time, stationary and telephones to be used for political activities. Were tax dollars used to send a partisan polemic? They described the 2023 state budget as…

  • Freehold Township alum Tepedino ‘excited’ to take reins of soccer team

    Freehold Township alum Tepedino ‘excited’ to take reins of soccer team

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Michael Tepedino considers the Freehold Township High School boys soccer program to be a family. The bond Tepedino remembers developing with his teammates during his high school days at Freehold Township have remained the same since he returned to the program as an assistant coach for the last seven years. In 2022,…

  • News Transcript News Briefs, Aug. 24

    News Transcript News Briefs, Aug. 24

    The Manalapan Police Department has reported the following incidents which recently occurred in the community: On Aug. 3, a Manalapan resident reported that unknown individuals removed a package valued at approximately $28,000 from the porch of a West Parsonage Way residence on July 28. The package was left at the home by a delivery service.…

  • Former school board member appointed to open seat in Freehold Township

    Former school board member appointed to open seat in Freehold Township

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – A former member of the Freehold Township K-8 School District Board of Education has been selected by sitting board members to fill an open seat on the panel. On July 26, Michael Matthews was appointed to the board to serve for the remainder of 2022. Matthews will succeed Debra Costanza, who resigned…

  • Residents enter races seeking seats on local school boards

    Residents enter races seeking seats on local school boards

    When voters in Englishtown, Freehold Borough, Freehold Township, Manalapan and Marlboro go to the polls on Nov. 8 to elect members of governmental bodies, they will also vote to elect members of their local school boards. July 25 was the deadline for New Jersey residents to file a nominating petition to run for a seat…

  • Bond ordinance will fund capital improvements in Freehold Township

    Bond ordinance will fund capital improvements in Freehold Township

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – The Township Committee has appropriated $3.12 million to fund various improvements in Freehold Township. During a meeting on July 27, committee members adopted a bond ordinance that will authorize the appropriation for capital improvements. The ordinance will authorize the issuance of $2.96 million in bonds or notes to finance part of the…