Tag: Upper Freehold Township

  • Regional school board considers plan to install turf playing field

    Regional school board considers plan to install turf playing field

    Members of the Upper Freehold Regional School District Board of Education and district administrators are examining the possibility of replacing the grass football field at the Allentown High School stadium with a synthetic turf field. The issue was discussed during a board meeting on Feb. 19 at the Newell Elementary School, Allentown. Board President Patrick…

  • Upper Freehold joins emergency medical services pact with Allentown

    Upper Freehold joins emergency medical services pact with Allentown

    UPPER FREEHOLD – Municipal officials in Upper Freehold Township have confirmed a new partnership that is now providing emergency medical services to residents. In a letter to residents, Mayor Stephen J. Alexander, Deputy Mayor LoriSue H. Mount, Committeeman Robert Faber, Committeeman Dr. Robert A. Frascella and Committeeman Stanley Maslowski Jr. said, “Providing 24-hour EMS coverage…

  • Alexander named Upper Freehold mayor for 2020

    Alexander named Upper Freehold mayor for 2020

    UPPER FREEHOLD – The members of the Township Committee in Upper Freehold Township have voted to keep their mayor and deputy mayor from 2019 in place for 2020. At the governing body’s annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 7, Committeeman Stephen Alexander, who served as mayor in 2019, was elected by his fellow committee members to…

  • FFA spaghetti dinner scheduled for March 21

    FFA spaghetti dinner scheduled for March 21

    The Allentown FFA Parents, Alumni and Friends (PAF) will host the 13th annual gift auction and spaghetti dinner at 6 p.m. March 21 at the Hope Fire Company, 82 Route 526, Upper Freehold Township. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. The organization provides support to the Allentown FFA chapter of Allentown High School throughout the…

  • Nolan will serve as Upper Freehold Regional school board president

    Nolan will serve as Upper Freehold Regional school board president

    A new president has been selected to lead the Upper Freehold Regional School District Board of Education for 2020. The district serves school-age residents of Upper Freehold Township and Allentown and consists of the Newell Elementary School, the Stone Bridge Middle School and Allentown High School. High school age residents of Millstone Township attend Allentown…

  • Write-in candidates appear to have won seats on Millstone school board

    Write-in candidates appear to have won seats on Millstone school board

    Three residents of Millstone Township appear to have received enough write-in votes to claim three-year terms on the Millstone Township K-8 School District Board of Education. No candidates filed nominating petitions to appear on the ballot to run for the three three-year terms that were up for grabs in the Nov. 5 election, leaving open…

  • Voters elect governing body members in Millstone, Upper Freehold

    Voters elect governing body members in Millstone, Upper Freehold

    Republicans will maintain 5-0 control of the governing bodies in Millstone Township and Upper Freehold Township following the Nov. 5 election. In Millstone Township, incumbent Republican Al Ferro ran unopposed for a three-year term on the Township Committee. Ferro received 1,349 votes on Election Day, according to results posted online by the Monmouth County Clerk’s…

  • Allentown property owners will get break on school tax levy percentage

    Allentown property owners will get break on school tax levy percentage

    ALLENTOWN – The percentage of the Upper Freehold Regional School District tax levy that property owners in Allentown pay is scheduled to decrease in 2020. Allentown and Upper Freehold Township comprise the UFRSD and share the costs of operating the Newell Elementary School, the Stone Bridge Middle School and Allentown High School. Earlier this year,…

  • Freeholders hold groundbreaking for Sharon Station Road improvement project

    Freeholders hold groundbreaking for Sharon Station Road improvement project

    UPPER FREEHOLD – The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of a road improvement project on Sharon Station Road (Route 539A) from Allentown-Davis Station Road (Route 539) to Allentown-Red Valley Road (Route 526) on Oct. 23. “Through a collaboration with the township of Upper Freehold, the county will…