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• Colleen Curry wrote a new blog post: Thank You, Freehold   10 months, 3 weeks ago · View

  By now you’ve heard the news: our site will cease production this week, after two years of daily reporting and community conversation on issues that mattered to Freehold residents. It was a tough decision. This site has been my baby, a project that started just as I began my journalism career two years ago, right [...]

• Colleen Curry wrote a new blog post: Crash, Death at Gravel Hill/537 Intersection   11 months ago · View

  One man died in a two-car crash on Route 537 near Gravel Hill Road on Thursday morning, investigators said. The crash is being investigated by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the name of the victim is not being released pending notification of next of kin, said Assistant Prosecutor Mark LeMieux. An autopsy is planned [...]

• Colleen Curry wrote a new blog post: Vote over parking at Freehold grocery postponed   11 months ago · View

  The decision of whether to allow a significant parking variance for a borough grocery store has been postponed until July. The borough’s planning board had originally intended to vote on the Mellon Farms application this Wednesday, but that has pushed back the decision until July 13. The office of board attorney Patrick Accisano said the [...]

• Colleen Curry wrote a new blog post: Cops: Freehold man faces assault charges after hammer attack   11 months ago · View

  A borough man was attacked with a hammer by another borough man late Sunday night, police said. The victim, described as a 22-year-old Latino man, was attacked around 11:44 p.m. on Sunday and taken to CentraState Medical Center in Freehold Township where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, according to Lt. Mark Wodell. Jesus Eustacio-Caballere, [...]

• Colleen Curry wrote a new blog post: Former Strickland Farms Manager Indicted   11 months ago · View

  By Michelle Sahn An Ocean Township woman has been indicted on charges of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a condominium community’s association fees. A grand jury today returned the indictment against Theresa Tierney, 59, of the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, charging her with two second-degree offenses: theft and theft by failure to [...]

• Colleen Curry wrote a new blog post: Mellon Farms Could Get Approval in Freehold   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  A new grocery store may be coming to downtown Freehold, if the borough’s Planning Board will allow a significant variance for the store’s lack of parking. A proposal by Mellon Farms, a fresh produce and fish market on South Street in the borough, to move into a larger space down the street could be approved by [...]

• Colleen Curry wrote a new blog post: Monmouth County collects housing applications from those with long-term disabilities   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  By Nina Rizzo The Monmouth County Housing Authority collected 170 applications last week for a 30-unit housing project designed for low-income people with multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders. Kershaw Commons, an $11.3 million affordable housing complex under construction on the Applewood Estates campus off Gully Road, is expected to open in the fall. It [...]

• Colleen Curry wrote a new blog post: Freehold Woman Arrested for Keansburg Break-In, Beating   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  Police say two men and a woman broke into a home here early today, beat the occupants and threatened to get a gun and shoot the victim’s children. Two of the suspects were taken into custody a short time later after they apparently drove by the victim’s home while the police were still there. Police [...]

• Colleen Curry wrote a new blog post: Freehold Township Principals to Switch Schools, Despite Objections   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  A decision to switch two school principals for the 2011-2012 school year brought parents out in protest at Tuesday night’s school board meeting. Parents of Errickson school students expressed disapproval of the superintendent’s decision to switch the principals of Errickson and Catena elementary schools. Despite half a dozen pleas, the board voted unanimously to approve [...]

• Colleen Curry wrote a new blog post: Freeholders agree to $32M for new 911 center   11 months, 1 week ago · View

  The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders agreed to spend nearly $32 million for a new public safety communications system as well as the software, cell towers and radio transmission equipment needed to support the system for the county’s proposed 9-1-1 Communications Center. The freeholders held a public hearing Thursday for a $2.1 million bond ordinance [...]