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Broad Street between Throckmorton Street and the 6/12 Convenience Store will be closed to through traffic Thursday and part of Friday.

The street will be closed to allow for roadway improvements.

That part of Broad Street could be reopened as early as Friday afternoon, according to a borough announcement.

An updated look at the Olive Garden on Route 537/Monmouth Road in Freehold Township:

The almost-finished building, according to workers at the site, is in the same complex as the Freehold Wal-mart and Longhorne Steakhouse.

Freehold Raceway will once again be home to the annual Cane Pace, the first leg in the Harness Racing Triple Crown. Monday’s race has a $300,000 purse. The race, first run in 1955 in Yonkers, New York, was moved to Freehold in 1998. Freehold has the oldest half-mile racetrack in the country, though it has recently [...]

The Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education symbolically voted down Assistant Superintendent Donna Evangelista’s salary Monday. The school board voted 4-3 in favor of Evangelista’s 2010-11 school year salary, which remained unchanged at $151,556 because the district’s central office staff agreed to a wage freeze. However, because members’ votes are weighted differently, the [...]

The News Transcript reported yesterday that enrollment in the Freehold Borough school district is up 43 students this year, tallying a total of 1,405 Borough munchkins expanding their minds at the town’s three schools this year. No other major changes are on the horizons for the schools, according to the story. However, two positions were newly created [...]

A transit line that could connect Freehold Borough & Township to New York City, Philadelphia, and Trenton is on the move again, according to an article in the News Transcript . The federal Department of Transportation awarded New Jersey Transit $534,375 to investigate the potential Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex line, according to the NT. Plans for the “MOM” line have been developed [...]

The US Open is underway, with some of the world’s top tennis talent slugging tennis balls across Flushing, Queens this week. Freehold’s top talent, 11-year-old singer Lianah Sta. Ana , will join them next week to sing at half-court at the Women’s Quarterfinals. Sta. Ana, who has been a part of Freehold Idol and won national singing awards , will croon [...]

Faith Tabernacle Church, on Avenue A in Freehold Borough, will celebrate its 75th anniversary this weekend with a banquet in East Windsor. The Church was founded in 1935 by recent Virginia transplants to Freehold Arthur Goode and Reverend Sallie Goode. It began as a small mission on Throckmorton Street, and moved first to 9 Avenue A [...]

Yesterday, we reported how Freehold students might feel a little crowded in their classrooms this year, with fewer teachers on the payroll . Today, the budget cut effects are in the news again, as the APP reports that students will head back to school next week with fewer extracurricular activities to join.

As part of a large cut, winter track [...]

Freehold native and NBA star JR Smith plead guilty last year to reckless driving following a car accident in which the passenger of the SUV Smith was driving died. Yesterday, a panel of appellate court judges ruled that Smith’s plea could not be used against him in a civil wrongful-death suit brought by the passenger’s mother, according to [...]

Parts of Freehold and much of Monmouth County lost power shortly before 5pm today.

Upwards of 10,000 JCP&L customers could be without power, according to their website.
You can keep up with the power outage at the JCP&L Outage Map http://bit.ly/95HkG5

Did you lose power today, Freehold residents? Is it back on yet?

Basketball courts, tennis courts, and two roller-hockey rinks are slated to get a little lovin’ from Freehold Township. The Township Committee is set to approve the resurfacing of the three Tighe park sports surfaces at tomorrow evening’s meeting. The contract is for $139,337, and will be awarded to Frye’s Athletic Surfaces. The hockey rinks show visible [...]

One of the oldest original buildings in Freehold Township will be celebrated with a grand reopening event next month, and the Township’s Heritage Society is looking for special help with the event. The Georgia Road Schoolhouse, which was originally constructed in 1735 and, in various incarnations, served as functioning schoolhouse until 1956, has been renovated and [...]

The Freehold Township School Board will hold a meeting Wednesday night to interview potential candidates to fill a board vacancy. The candidate will fill the position left vacant by Fillip Gershon, who resigned last month. The Board will interview applicants who filed by August 17 in a public meeting. No action is expected to be [...]

Some Freehold area schools may feel the effects of budget cuts this year, with teacher layoffs resulting in larger class sizes, according to the Asbury Park Press.

The Freehold Regional High School District lost an estimated $15 million in state and local funding and consequently eliminated 152 positions. Class sizes in its six high schools that serve an [...]

Like those new sand volleyball courts at Tighe park? What about the recently-approved 2nd splash pad, to cool off on those summer days? Well, the annual fund raiser that helps pay for those Township delights is coming up. The 9th Annual Freehold Township Parks & Recreation Golf Classic will be held on Thursday, September 23, 2010 [...]

Just a week before Patrick “Joe” Driscoll lost his life in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he delivered twin beds to a Monmouth County home, simply because he knew the family needed help. The next day he went back and delivered bedding, toys and a truckload of food, said Regina Finn, manager of the [...]