Bulletin Board
     • Monmouth Legal Secretaries Assoc-iation will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Empire Diner, Freehold Township. Peter H. Lederman, of the firm Lomurro, Davison, Eastman and Munoz, will discuss "Driving While Intoxicated." All are welcome. Details: Carole, (609) 987-0050.
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Bulletin Board
     • Young Widows-Widowers Social Group will meet for ice skating at Wall Ice Skating Arena, Wall Township, at noon Feb. 10. The cost is $5; $4 for children under age 12. Skate rental is $3. Details: Egda, (732) 747-4823, or Dave, (732) 946-0969.
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Three officers join department
     FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Three new police officers were sworn in as members of the Freehold Township Police Department at the Township Committee’s Jan. 29 meeting.
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Sculptor pieces car parts
into dynamic dinosaurs
Correspondent
By janet branagan
     MARLBORO — It was a treat of gigantic proportions when local sculptor Jim Gary presented many of his artistic creations to pupils at the Frank J. Dugan Elementary School on Monday.
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     JERRY WOLKOWITZ A metal sculpture by Jim Gary — created out of car parts other people did not want — was one of the creations that students at the Frank J. Dugan Elementary School, Marlboro, viewed on Monday during a visit by the sculptor from Farmingdale.
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Official looking into closing roads
Aberdeen housing feared
to add to traffic and
congestion in Marlboro
Staff Writer
By sue m. morgan
     OLD BRIDGE — Township Councilman G. Kevin Calogera has asked the council to explore closing two thoroughfares that traverse Old Bridge and Aberdeen Township due to concerns about increased traffic and congestion from a proposed high density housing complex in Aberdeen Township.
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Police cars carry patriotic touch
     FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — With patriotism on their minds, the members of the Township Committee recently approved a new design for the municipality’s police vehicles.
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     JERRY WOLKOWITZ Freehold Township mechanic Michael DiGiovanni applies a new patriotic decal to a township police car.
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Automotive career
night set at school
     MANALAPAN — Eighth-graders and current high school students with an interest in automobile careers are invited with their parents to attend an information evening tonight at 7 p.m. at Manalapan High School, Church Lane.
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Sons of St. Patrick will
     host breakfast Feb. 10
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     EQUI-PHOTO Monmouth Park racetrack, Oceanport, was the setting for a recent day of shooting for the HBO television series The Sopranos. On hand for the day’s work in Monmouth County were series members Steve Van Zant (l), James Gandolfini (second from left) and Jerry Adler (third from left). Th...
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Board topples tower plan
at Franklin Lane location
Staff Writer
By dave benjamin
     MANALAPAN — Members of the Planning Board have voted 5-1 to draw up a resolution denying an applicant permission to build a cellular communications tower in the Franklin Lane commuter parking lot.
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