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• Kim Predham wrote a new blog post: Freehold Regional school taxes pass; incumbents ousted from Board of Education   1 year ago · View

  Voters in the Freehold Regional High School District readily approved a $115.6 million general fund tax levy for 2011-12, but threw out two incumbents seeking re-election to the district Board of Education. The tax levy passed by a vote of 9,989 to 6,966, according to county election results. Incumbents Christopher Placitella and Barry Hochberg were [...]

• Kim Predham wrote a new blog post: Online degree scandal echoes in Freehold Regional High School District election   1 year ago · View

  Former Schools Superintendent H. James Wasser may have departed the Freehold Regional High School District, but his shadow still looms over this year’s school board elections. “I thought it was an outrage,” Carl Accettola said of the revelations in 2008 that several district employees, including Wasser, had earned doctoral degrees from an unaccredited online university and received [...]

• Kim Predham wrote a new blog post: Boro Seeking Shuttle to Aberdeen-Matawan Station   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  There has to be an easier way from Freehold to New York City – right? That’s what the Borough Council is hoping, anyway.  The Council unanimously passed a resolution Monday asking New Jersey Transit to provide shuttle service from Freehold to the Aberdeen-Matawan train station, a move that would “not only enhance transportation services, but [...]

• Kim Predham wrote a new blog post: Freehold Regional Gives Raise This Year, Promises No Raise Next Year for Supervisors of Extracurriculars   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  Freehold Regional High School District’s supervisors of extracurricular activities will receive 1.5 percent raises this school year, but no increase in 2011-2012, according to the contract approved by the school board Monday. Each of the district’s six schools has a supervisor of extracurricular activities, often known simply as a SECA. The supervisors’ duties include coordinating the work [...]

• Kim Predham wrote a new blog post: Freehold Twp. Administrator Retiring   1 year, 3 months ago · View

  After more than a quarter-century with the township government, Freehold Township Administrator Thomas E. Antus plans to retire April 1. Antus, 62, was praised by residents and government officials alike at Tuesday’s Township Committee meeting, where his retirement was announced. Antus began working for the township in 1984, when he was hired as assistant superintendent of [...]

• Kim Predham wrote a new blog post: School Board Candidates Sought   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  Yep, folks, it’s that time again – The annual school board elections are almost upon us. Three seats – all for three-year terms – are up for election on the borough school district’s board of education this April. Anyone pondering a run for one of those seats has just under seven weeks to make a [...]

• Kim Predham wrote a new blog post: Freehold Regional Hires Bond Counsel, Financial Advisors   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  Freehold Regional High School District officials want to get started on a list of capital projects. One problem: They need to figure out how to pay for them. To assist them with this quandary, the district’s school board has hired two firms, the Asbury Park Press reports: The school board awarded contracts Jan. 10 to the [...]

• Kim Predham wrote a new blog post: New Year, New Leaders for Freehold Twp.   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  With the new year just a week in, the Freehold Township Committee met Friday night to pick new leaders, swear in newly-elected Committeewoman Barbara McMorrow and approve a slew of volunteer and professional appointments. During their annual organization meeting Friday, the Committee unanimously chose David Salkin to serve as this year’s mayor. Eugene Golub – [...]

• Kim Predham wrote a new blog post: Returning burglar gets copper wiring, credit card   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  Borough police are searching for a man they believe broke into a local business twice and used a stolen credit card at an area Staples. The unknown man is thought to have burglarized a Bannard Street business on Dec. 18 or 19, and again during the New Year’s weekend. The burglar stole several items, including [...]

• Kim Predham wrote a new blog post: Boro budget panel to have say in plan   1 year, 4 months ago · View

  Borough residents will have a greater say in the budget preparations next year, when a newly established budget committee gets underway. Mayor Michael Wilson plans to appoint three residents to a new ad hoc Citizens Advisory Budget Committee on Sunday, when the Borough Council holds its annual organization meeting. The committee is expected to help [...]