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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Veterans Groups Propose Renovations to Elks Point

Renovations would make Elks Point better functioning with less maintenance.

The Elks Point Memorial Committee came in front of the Freehold Borough Council Tuesday night with plans to renovate Elks Point. Renovations for the Elks Point Memorial Park stemmed from multiple conversations that began at Freehold Memorial Day Parade Committee meetings. Council George Schnurr explained to the Council that plans for the renovation would make the area require less maintenance. “There is an architectural plan in place to address the maintenance concerns initially raised by the veterans groups. The plan is for a maintenance free Elks Point and dresses up the main gateway to Freehold Borough and our Downtown District,” said Schnurr. According to Freehold Borough Engineer Bill Wentzien the renovations to the space would make …

Friday, December 14, 2012

Wreaths Across America Comes Back to Freehold Borough

The Freehold Masons Olive Branch Lodge #16 organized the event.

Freehold Borough has been chosen, for the second year in a row, to be apart of a nationwide event that honors fallen veterans. Wreaths Across America is coming back to the borough this Saturday, Dec. 15 to lay wreaths on the graves in Elks Point. Freehold Borough will be one of the 800 towns across the country that honor their veterans by placing wreaths on the graves of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. According to Freehold Borough Councilman George Schnurr, wreath laying during the holidays started at Arlington National Cemetery in 1992 by a Maine businessman, Morrill Worcester whose family owned Worcester Wreath Company. For 14 years the wreath laying was completed with very little fanfare until in 2005, when an image of the …

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