FREEHOLD — The minutes of two executive session meetings reveal that a consultant hired by the town’s governing body recommended that municipal officials name a police director/officer in charge of the Freehold Borough Police Department. More...

Verizon Wireless is one step closer to building a cellular communications tower on property at Colts Neck High School after winning an appeal on Jan. 17 against a decision made by the Colts Neck Zoning Board of Adjustment. More...

The boards of education in the Freehold Borough K-8 School District and the Freehold Township K-8 School District appear to be ready to move the annual school election fromApril to the date of the general election in November. Abill signed into law on Jan. 17 by Gov. Chris Christie gives school boards the option of moving the date of the election. More...

Freehold Borough officials do not have to make public a consultant’s report that examined the organization and operation of the Freehold Borough Police Department. More...

ENGLISHTOWN — Members of the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District Board of Education did not wait long after Gov. Chris Christie signed a law giving school officials the option to move the annual school election to November and to do away with a public vote on the annual school budget. More...

MARLBORO — Members of the Marlboro Township Council have settled a lawsuit by approving an agreement that officials said will benefit the municipality’s affordable housing trust fund. Representatives of Paragon Homes II filed a lawsuit against the council and the Planning Board in 2009 in state Superior Court, according to the resolution that authorized the settlement. More...