New committeemen in Manalapan Township should focus on littering problem in town
     This is an open invitation to the two newest members of my Manalapan Township Committee, Joseph Locricchio and Andrew Lucas.
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Caring donors thanked
     On behalf of all the staff, Board of Directors and the volunteers at Family and Children’s Service, I would like to extend our deepest appreciation to all who donated to our holiday giving program, “Operation Sleighbells.”
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Reformed Democrats welcome residents’ participation
     I firmly believe that Marlboro residents may now take an optimistic view of the political landscape evolving in 2005. Herbert Resnick, a former Democratic Marlboro councilman who served under the existing municipal leadership of what has been termed the “old guard,” wrote that the Reformed Demo-crat
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Child’s move to early learning center concerns parent
     I am writing as a parent of a “special needs” child who has been moved to the Early Learning Center (ELC) in Freehold Township (the old West Freehold School that has been converted into a school for the township’s special needs classes). All the special needs classes from the Catena and Applegate sc
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Editor of newsletter tried to accommodate request
     I am responding to a letter to the editor that was printed in the Dec. 22 issue of the News Transcript from Michael Ponenti. I am the editor of the Marlboro Greens newsletter, The Voice. Let me clearly state the facts.
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Agency offers lesson plans on gambling awareness
     The Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey Inc. received a major setback when New Jersey Depart-ment of Education Commissioner William Librera pulled a 2004 revision to the Core Curriculum Content Standards, which would have required education in health and physical education classes to includ
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Mayor listened and then helped to solve a problem
     Several months ago we spent about an hour conferring with Mayor Robert Kleinberg. We had come to ask for his help in resolving an issue that had become a problem for many senior citizens of Marlboro.
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Issue remains immigrants who come to U.S. illegally
     Kudos to Freehold Borough Mayor Mike Wilson and the Borough Council for rebutting the misinformation being disseminated by the Coalition of the Empowerment of Latinos and the Working Poor.
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Illegal immigration is a high stakes issue for America
     Politicians, religious leaders, etc., may preach peace in America, but there is no peace. The cultural war has actually begun. That war is being fueled by the sophistry being preached by certain civil and church leaders. Diversity is the catch phrase, that dirty little word you hear in church every
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Residents rankled by change in engineering firm
     Today I sat and watched as our newly sworn in mayor, William I. Scherer, and our newly sworn in committeemen Andrew Lucas and Joseph Locricchio (our new deputy mayor), voted to end a 32-year-old relationship between Manalapan and CME Engineering.
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Residents should show support for state Assembly bill
     Assemby Bill No. 2432 will raise the fine for (residential) overcrowding. The current $1,250 does not appear to be a deterrent, since it still occurs in Freehold Borough, and I am sure in many other towns in New Jersey.
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