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March 5, 2009
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Allentown High School ready to raise - "Rent" Watch Video
School one of only 40 across nation to put show on. Rent went dark on Broadway, but Allentown High School will resurrect the popular and controversial musical this weekend. More...
Schedule changes may help budgeting
Budget whittled down for possible 3.9-cent tax increase
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer

The Millstone Township School District must make cuts because the state will not allow a 2009-10 budget that depends on more than a 4 percent tax levy increase. At the Feb. 23 Board of Education meeting, Superintendent of Schools Mary Anne Donahue and Business Administrator Bernard Biesaida prese... More...

AHS students cast off for charities
Big part of Knitting Club is making items for others
BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer

Knit happens at Allentown High School. The school's Knitting Club, supervised by history teacher Judy Briar, meets bimonthly and has over 40 members. Those involved in the extracurricular activity not only learn how to create fashionable items for themselves, friends and family, but also take the ... More...


Fire destroys greenhouse

MILLSTONE — A fire tore through a Millstone Koi greenhouse in the early morning hours of Feb. 25. The Millstone Township Fire Department was dispatched to 153 Stillhouse Road at 4:31 a.m. for the reported structure fire. More...


Allentown water, sewer rates likely to change
Council to hold public hearing on issue March 10
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer

ALLENTOWN — Two ordinances affecting water and sewer rates were introduced at the Feb. 24 Borough Council meeting. A public hearing on the ordinances is scheduled for the March 10 meeting of the governing body. The first ordinance changes the sewer rates. If the council adopts the ordinance, the... More...


County to take charge of dangerous U.F. road
Sharon Station Rd. re-design expected

UPPER FREEHOLD — After years of discussion, Monmouth County will likely take jurisdiction of Sharon Station Road and redesign it. Residents have appeared regularly before the Township Committee to complain about the dangerous conditions of the road. At the Feb. 26 meeting, the governing bod... More...


 Bulletin Board
•Women's Association to hold gift auction
A gift auction sponsored by the Women's Association of Allentown will be held April 18 at the Allentown First Aid Building, Route 526, Allentown. The doors will open at 6 p.m. and the calling will begin at 7 p.m. Two sheets of tickets will be provided with a $5 donation and three extra sheets wil... More...
•Course to be offered at Rick's Saddle Shop
•Ranch Hope to benefit from soup sale
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 Letters
•Schools are valuable community assets
Dear fellow community members of Allentown borough and Upper Freehold. I am reaching out today as a neighbor and local realtor regarding our upcoming school budget vote on April 21. All of us have been adversely affected either directly or indirectly by our dismal economy. More...
•More citizens need to do community service
•Family proud to be part of the Millstone community
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 Editorials
•Upper Freehold's 'Deal of the Century' seems to be a dud
Alandfill in Upper Freehold, actually, two landfills to be precise, and we the taxpayers, may own it. More...
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 Greg Bean's Column
•Auto industry column struck positive chord with readers
Iget a lot of reader response to this column. Sometimes, I opine about something that rubs some people the wrong way, and I hear about it. Once in a while, though, I write something that strikes a positive chord with readers, and I hear about that, too. More...
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 Schools
•Allentown High School ready to raise 'Rent'
School one of only 40 across nation to put show on
'Rent" went dark on Broadway, but Allentown High School will resurrect the popular and controversial musical this weekend. This past year was the first ever that student groups could access licenses to produce the musical. While many theater departments across the nation scrambled to get the lice... More...
•New school may harness power of the sun
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 Sports
•Bryant U. recruits Millstone soccer star
Millstone Township resident Kaitlyn Fare has received a scholarship to play soccer at Bryant University in Rhode Island. Fare, a 17-year-old Millstone resident who is a senior at St. John Vianney High School in Holmdel, signed a national letter of intent Feb. 4 to play soccer while attending Brya... More...
•Warriors win tourney
•Playoff prep. begins
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 Business
•Business Briefs
Dr. Miryam Bookman has announced the opening of her new dental practice in Jackson. The practice features chairmounted TVs/monitors in each room, digital X-rays, and intra-oral cameras so the patient can see what the doctor sees. More...
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