Allentown's large white ash surrenders to old age
There's no one alive who saw the white ash when it was just a sapling, but many who live in the Allentown area today shared in the wonders of the tree's golden years. Before the only Fraxinus Americana on Main Street succumbed to old age and finally departed from this world on May 1, it towered 70 feet in the sky and was an estimated 200 years old.
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Twp. Committee vows to oversee all purchases
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer
UPPER FREEHOLD - The Department of Public Works has not one, but two watchdogs. Deputy Mayor Bob Faber and Committeeman Stanley Moslowski Jr., the Township Committee's liaisons to the Department of Public Works (DPW), said they would be the watchdogs and review all of the department's purchasing requests. More...
Sheriff also talks about inmate labor program
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer
UPPER FREEHOLD - The Monmouth County Sheriff paid a visit to town last week. Kim Guadagno, who was elected last year as the county's first female sheriff, told the Township Committee at its May 1 meeting that her office cares about what happens in Upper Freehold and discussed an upgrade to the 911 emergency system. More...
Piping to the beat of their own drummer & drum major
