Tag: Marlboro
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Temple Rodeph Torah will welcome new cantor
MARLBORO – Rick Lawrence has been named the new cantor at Temple Rodeph Torah and will join the Marlboro congregation starting with the High Holiday services in September. Lawrence joins Rabbi Donald Weber and Rabbinic Associate Shira Stern as the Rodeph Torah clergy. He succeeds Joanna Alexander, who is now cantor at Temple Israel in…
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Project expected to stabilize streambank on Pleasant Valley Road
MARLBORO – The Marlboro Township Council has introduced an ordinance that would, if adopted, appropriate a $420,236 grant for a Pleasant Valley streambank project. Council members introduced the ordinance on July 11 and set Aug. 15 as the date for a public hearing on the proposal. The grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)…
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Work advancing to transform hospital parcel to county park
MARLBORO – Municipal and state officials have offered an update on the Route 520 property that previously housed the Marlboro State Psychiatric Hospital. The parcel fronts on Route 520, which is a Monmouth County road, and is bordered by Conover Road to the east. The 410-acre property housed the psychiatric hospital from 1931 until 1998,…
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Pallone announces funding for road improvements in Marlboro
MARLBORO – Congressman Frank Pallone Jr., a Democrat from New Jersey whose congressional district includes Marlboro, has announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded a grant for Marlboro to stabilize flood-prone Pleasant Valley Road. The grant allocates more than $400,000 to secure the rapidly eroding foundation of Pleasant Valley Road between Igoe…
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Wawa application expected to resume Aug. 13
MARLBORO – Testimony on a plan to construct a Wawa convenience store with a gas station and a medical office building near the intersection of Route 520 and Route 79 has been carried to the Aug. 13 meeting of the Marlboro Zoning Board of Adjustment. The application was scheduled to be heard on July 9,…
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Federal funding will pay for road resurfacing in Marlboro adult community
MARLBORO – The township has received $120,370 through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program for the resurfacing of Peasley Drive in the Greenbriar adult community off Robertsville Road, Marlboro. The award was announced by the Monmouth County Office of Community Development in a letter to Marlboro…
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Programs scheduled at Marlboro, Colts Neck libraries
Guild of Creative Art exhibiting artist David Levy will present a program about Italian artist Giotto at the Marlboro branch of the Monmouth County Library, 1 Library Court, off Wyncrest Road, Marlboro, at 1 p.m. July 18. Giotto, the first Italian artist to become universally known, was a painter and architect during the late Middle…
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Technical issue delays Wawa hearing until Marlboro zoning board’s July 9 meeting
MARLBORO – Testimony on an applicant’s plan to construct a Wawa convenience store with a gas station and a medical office building near the intersection of Route 520 and Route 79 was not heard as expected during the June 25 meeting of the Marlboro Zoning Board of Adjustment. Instead, attorney Edward Liston, who represents the…
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Proposal for Wawa and medical office space will not benefit Marlboro
By Ron Murray I am submitting this in response to an article which appeared in the June 19 News Transcript regarding an applicant’s proposal to build a Wawa gas station with eight pumps and a medical office building in Marlboro. (Editor’s note: The Wawa application referenced in this Your Turn guest column is currently before…