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Offering a peaceful respite, sharing a historic property
Couple renovates Waln family home into bed and breakfast
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer
The drive to PeaceFields Inn in Upper Freehold is lined with grapevines growing at the winery, horses grazing and frolicking in green pastures and farmers tending to their livelihoods on miles and miles of farmland. The long, circular drive that surrounds the inn like a moat is surr... More...
Plans pitched for lot across from Rick’s Saddle Shop
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer

UPPER FREEHOLD — A new bank and drugstore, along with new medical offices, may soon pop up along Route 539. The Planning Board reviewed conceptual plans for the commercial development called Cream Ridge Concepts at its Dec. 14 meeting. Planner/engineer Mark Shourds, of Medford, unveil... More...

Another fast-food stop planned for Route 539
Business would serve paninis, wraps and salads
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer

UPPER FREEHOLD — A new take-out eatery may soon be coming to town. At the Planning Board’s Dec. 14 meeting, the board approved a site plan waiver for a business described by its owners as an upscale fast-food take-out enterprise. Board member Doug Raynor voted against granting the w... More...

 Bulletin Board
•Community Bulletin Board
Blood donors and drives needed this December New Jersey Blood Services, a division of the New York Blood Center, is predicting a severe blood shortage in December that will require blood rationing to area hospitals and patients if blood supply levels do not improve, blood c... More...
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 Letters
•Don’t leave the poor behind in tax reform
Property tax relief is essential in New Jersey, and in many cases it will be an anti-poverty measure for moderate and middle-income households. However, in attempts to fix property taxes, it is important to recognize that for New Jerseyans with the lowest incomes, property tax relief alone me... More...
•M&M residents offer heartfelt thanks to women’s organization
•Shore group supports public access to beaches
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 Editorials
• Coda
If they won’t do it, we’ll have to do it ourselves
If there’s one thing we can almost all agree on this week, it’s that the BIG DEAL effort at property tax reform this year is as dead as Chester Watson’s mule. And as everyone who saw it hit by lightning — three times — can attest, that cranky old mule was as dead as dead gets. More...
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 Schools
•Millstone middle school project hits costly snag
Twp. Committee, Board of Ed. members point fingers at each other
MILLSTONE — The school district may have to pay as much as $1 million for grading work at the middle school site that it almost got for free. At the Board of Education’s Dec. 12 meeting, Arthur San Fillipo, an architect with The Thomas Group in Princeton, which is the firm designing... More...
•Learning a lesson about looking beyond the self
•Allentown student named FFA member of the month
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 Sports
•Fiorentino, Mullaney earn All-American honors
Brookdale Community College players continue to reap the rewards of this year’s second-place finish at the national championships. Defender Laura Fiorentino earned First Team All-American recognition from the National Junior College Athletic Association. BCC midfielder Ally Mullaney w... More...
•Taking a full ride
•Letting it fly
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