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- Manchester police last week issued drug possession and DWI charges, the latter of which came on Independence Day, by Capt. Lisa Parker.
- Two Trenton residents were after the truck they were traveling in struck a utility pole and flipped near Manchester's border with Plumstead.
- When Manchester's township council last week, appointing Craig Wallis to a fifth term as president and Brendan Weiner as its new vice president, it also .
- When the Manchester Schools’ 2009-10 budget was voted down, the elementary band was one of the programs that the was forced to cut for last year.That is when David Trethaway, Superintendent of Schools, and Tom Scharibone, music teacher at , decided .
- Disturbances continued to escalate to the point where Seaside Heights Police Chief Thomas J. Boyd made the decision to shut the boardwalk down and call for assistance from Toms River and Lavallette, , said Chief of Detectives Steven Korman.
- Manchester police arrested three township residents for their alleged involvement in the last week.
- Lakehurst officials speculated that the lack of a fireworks display in Manchester brought a at Lake Horicon Park.
- Now that the baboon that is believed to have made her way from Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson to Howell has been captured, the park will now and her health going forward.
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