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      February 28, 2007  RSS feed

      Freehold Township High School basketball players (l-r) T.J. LaFalce, Eddie Fischer and Marcus Roberson hold the Shore Conference Tournament championship plaque aloft after beating Christian Brothers Academy, 55-49, on Feb. 24 in Toms River. It was the first SCT basketball title won by the Patriot boys in school history. For more, see Sports. More...
      School times stay the same

      FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP -- The Board of Education announced at its Feb. 27 meeting that school times will remain the same in the 2007-08 school year. That is a complete turnaround from a plan school administrators put forth a month ago and one that drew a large crowd of parents to a Feb. 13 meeting to ask the board not to change the established start and end times for the district's schools. More...

      Police say CDS confiscated from Manalapan High School teen is believed to be cocaine

      A restraining order barring the senior class president at Manalapan High School from returning to the school was issued after police arrested the young man in the school. Manalapan Police Department Capt. Lou Moreto said Eric Goldman, 18, of Manalapan, was arrested at the high school, Church Lane, on Feb. More...


      MANALAPAN - Municipal officials may still proceed with the planned development of a dog park at the Village Green, Route 522, despite the possibility that a passenger rail station could one day be built at that location. More...


      FREEHOLD - A family support center may be on the horizon for residents in the near future. Lisa Nathari and Yvelisse Gonzalez, members of the Regional Perinatal Consortium of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, Lakewood, gave a presentation about such a center at the Feb. 6 meeting of the Freehold Borough Human Relations Committee. More...


      + A fibromyalgia support group will meet March 1 at 7 p.m. at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Road, Manalapan. + The Reformed Church of Free-hold will serve a roast beef dinner, family style, March 3 from 4-7 p.m. Cost is $12 for adults and $5 for children ages 6-12. Tickets at the door or through the church office. Take-out dinners available. More...
      Although I was grateful to find an article that initiated some dialogue on the debate of mandatory human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations for girls ("Bill Sparks Debate Over Health vs. Parents' Rights," Feb. 21), I was disheartened by the lopsided coverage of this issue. More...
      Feb. 22 marked the second anniversary of the Oper-ation Bid Rig sting that saw the roundup of 11 Monmouth County-area officials on federal corruption charges. Since that day, parallel and related investigations by the FBI have spread to Ocean and Middlesex counties, leading to indictments against dozens of government officials and businessmen. More...
      Eileen M. Madden Eileen M. Madden, 74, of Sarasota, Fla., died Jan. 31, 2007, at home. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., she had resided in Columbus, Ohio, and in Freehold and Florida. Mrs. Madden was predeceased by her husband, Michael, in 1998, and her sister, Joan Boyce. More...
      Farm was transformed into center of education in Marlboro in 1976
      MARLBORO - It was the year that Jimmy Carter was elected president, the nation celebrated its bicentennial and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was an acceptable form of punishment. It was 1976 and it was the year the Marlboro Middle School opened on Route 520 near Wyncrest Road. More...
      Goldwasser wins pole vault

      Two of the greatest distance runners in state history left a final, lasting impression on the NJSIAA Indoor Meet of Champions. Colts Neck's unflappable duo of Craig Forys and Ashley Higginson not only defended their 2006 3,200-meter titles, but turned in meet records and the fastest times in the country in the process. More...