Council honors students BY TALI ISRAELI Staff Writer Marlboro MARLBORO - The Township Council recently recognized those students who received first place and honorable mention in a project sponsored by the Marlboro Alliance for the Prevention of Substance Abuse. The alliance acts as a catalyst within the community to raise public awareness about substance abuse issues. In November, in recognition of the Great American Smote Out, the alliance ran a public service announcement contest for students in grades six through 12. The students had to submit a treatment (a written descriptive summary that created a visualization of the entry) and a script on the subject of no smoking. The winners of the contest are a group of eighth-graders from Marlboro Middle School and are all members of Peer to Peer: David Chough, Ralph Marinello, Jonathan Michaels, Matthew Nadler, Kunal Naik, Matthew Solomon and Zachary Winnegrad. Their skit that won the contest was a commercial of several youngsters playing football. While running down the field, a man dressed in a cigarette costume knocks one of the players down. The slogan for the commercial is "Don't Let Drugs Tackle You." The following entries received honorable mention: Sam Ackerman, seventh grade, for a rap; Nishant Grover, seventh grade, for a poem; Rachel Gorenstein, sixth grade, for a poem; group entry of Emile Zhang, eighth grade, Leon Lin, seventh grade, and Evan Yeung, eighth grade; group entry of Brittany Landau, seventh grade, Evan Katzen, eighth grade, Jenna Meyers, seventh grade, and Angela Napolitano, eighth grade. In other business at the Feb. 15 council meeting, the council passed a resolution authorizing a contract with First Priority Emergency Vehicles, Asbury Park, for the purchase of a 2006 Ford E-450 ambulance for $138,966. The ambulance was purchased for the Morganville First Aid and Rescue Squad. The council also passed a resolution urging the state Legisla-ture to enact a law that would prevent indicted developers from proceeding with construction until criminal matters are adjudicated. The resolution stems from Marlboro's current legal situation in which the courts are ruling in a developer's favor in stating that an indictment is not proof of guilt and that the developer cannot be prevented from moving forward with a project. Township Attorney Andrew Bayer noted that a lot of time elapses between an indictment and the conclusion of a trial, in which an indicted developer could complete construction on a project. The resolution requests that legislation be passed that would put a stay on projects in which the developers have been indicted.