Tag: Marlboro
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Colts Neck’s Brannan wins indoor MOC 3,200 state championship
By Tim Morris When Colts Neck High School’s Jordan Brannan won his first NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group III championship it was a big deal to the standout. To the Cougar, it meant that he was now one of the big guys — one of the best distance runners in the state. Two weeks later, Brannan…
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Resident will reject school referendum
Kudos to the Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education for their steadfast resoluteness in holding yet another referendum. This is just another ploy to push through more obscene spending and thereby raise the taxes of hard-working overtaxed Marlboro residents. This is a school district that is completely out of control, devoid of any empathy…
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Nine Century 21 Mack Morris Iris Lurie agents earn Quality Service Pinnacle Award
Iris Lurie, broker/owner of Century 21 Mack Morris Iris Lurie, Marlboro, announced that Century 21 Real Estate LLC recently recognized sales affiliates Fran Krumholz-Bookman,Laurin LaLima, Alan Katz, Carrie Moyer, Lori Ragovin, Sheryl Kerner, Alan Lurie, Susan Kaplan and Brian Lichtenthal with the Century 21 Quality Service Pinnacle Producer Award. “The Quality Service Pinnacle Producer Award is an…
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Classrooms could be converted for full-day kindergarten
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer MARLBORO – The earliest date that full-day kindergarten could be implemented in the Marlboro K-8 School District is September 2017. Board of Education members are discussing a plan that would see renovations made to the Asher Holmes Elementary School, the Frank Defino Central Elementary School, the Frank J. Dugan Elementary…
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Guidelines to testing are revised
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer MARLBORO – In response to parents who have expressed concern about the amount of testing their children undergo in school, administrators in the Marlboro K-8 School District have announced changes for the remainder of the 2015-16 school year and said they will examine long-term changes for testing in the district.…
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Donations to Covenant House brighten holiday
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer Barbara Kenas has been reaching out to the residents of Covenant House New Jersey in Newark for 18 years, doing what she can to bring cheer into the lives of people who call the facility home. Covenant House has been providing services to homeless young adults since 1989. According to…
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Marlboro seniors help to fight breast cancer
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer MARLBORO – For more than a decade, the Pink Ribbons of the Marlboro Greens adult community, Route 9, has done its part to fight breast cancer. The Pink Ribbons traces its roots to 2005 when a group of Marlboro Greens residents discussed the ways in which their community could better…
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‘Million Dollar Quartet’ rocks with two local actors
By Christine Barcia Staff Writer Skip Robinson and Jason Cohen grew up within a few miles of each other, but it took leading roles in a touring musical for the two actors to realize they had a common bond in western Monmouth County. Robinson, of Manalapan, and Cohen, of Marlboro, are performing in the national…
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Rush leading Mustangs to swimming state championships
By Tim Morris James Rush is a swimmer in a hurry. The Marlboro High School senior became one of the fastest swimmers in the state this winter, winning the 50-yard freestyle (21.98) at the Monmouth County Championships and the 100 freestyle (48.11) at the Shore Conference meet. He has qualified for both events at the…
