Joshua Riley wrote a new blog post: Last Chance, Freehold Regional Seniors, to Get Parking Real Estate

Freehold Regional High School District requires that both parents and students attend a Teen Driver Safety workshop in order to receive a parking space for the year.  If you did not make it to the regularly scheduled program, you’re in luck:  a make-up session will be held 7 p.m. Sept. 8, at Colts Neck High [...]

  6 months, 1 week ago · View

Joshua Riley wrote a new blog post: Back-to-School Book Bag Barrage

If they aren’t lurking in shopping aisles yet, book bag shoppers will soon be on the prowl.
What kind of book bag will you be seeking for your children of yourself this year?  What do you look for in a bag:  Designer or practical?  Large carrying ability or sleek look?  Dora the Explorer or Transformers?  Where [...]

  7 months ago · View

Joshua Riley wrote a new blog post: It’s 3 a.m. in China, and We Know Where 4 Manalapan Kids Are

Every so often, there’s a story that’s fascinating and exciting, through which I would like to vicariously live:
So far, this one takes the cake.
A group of four Manalapan High School students have been selected to join 10 teachers and 36 other students from across the country for an all expense paid, educational adventure tour of [...]

  7 months, 1 week ago · View

Joshua Riley wrote a new blog post: Hunting the Hunters: Geocaching sequal

BY JOSHUA RILEY
STAFF WRITER
Like early Cro-Magnon man, who planned hunts with knowledge of their prey’s habits, I’ve been searching for high-tech, GPS hide and seek hobbyists using geocaching.com, and then seeking these hidden boxes (hoping to find easy and often visited ones) in which to drop my calling card with a note of explanation:
Not that I haven’t used more traditional methods, i.e. sending emails, but that’s not generating responses.  Besides, [...]
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  8 months, 2 weeks ago · View

Joshua Riley wrote a new blog post: Quest for the moldy (not exactly) grail.

In between researching education bills in the State Legislature and making phone calls to school district administrators, I decided to follow a feature story lead and was taken into a patch of three-foot high grass and weeds before I found what I had been looking for: a dead-end on ramp, an interesting perspective, and a [...]
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  8 months, 2 weeks ago · View

Joshua Riley wrote a new blog post: Congrats Grads!

Congratulations to the Freehold Regional High School District Graduates!
IF you are a 2009 graduate or if you have a son or daughter who just turned their tassels, tell us about your (or your young grad’s) future plans.
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  8 months, 2 weeks ago · View

Joshua Riley wrote a new blog post:

Manalapan-Englishtown board member Anthony Manisero resigned from his position.
Manisero, 57, had served on the board since 2001, and during that time had
seen the construction of the district’s John I. Dawes Early Learning Center, the Wemrock Brook School, and the extension of the Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School.
Manisero said he did not have the time necessary to dedicate [...]
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  8 months, 3 weeks ago · View

Joshua Riley wrote a new blog post: Greetings

Greetings from the Asbury Park Press!
My name is Josh Riley, and, as a reporter for the Press,  I have for over a year covered the Freehold Regional High School District, and other school districts in the Freehold Area.
When I’m not behind my desk or out covering a meeting or event, I can be found pursuing [...]
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  8 months, 3 weeks ago · View