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Oct200929

1:14 pm

Alesha Williams Boyd

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Kids credited with park’s extreme makeover

Mayor Michelle Roth and local Scouts unveil Scout Lake's new sign.

Committeewoman Michelle Roth, Mayor Richard Klauber and local Scouts unveil Scout Lake's new sign. Photo by Andy Kazmierski.

Holiday Lake in Manalapan is now Scout Lake, named after about 20 area Boy, Girl and Cub Scout troops who helped breathe new life into the surrounding Holiday Park.

The 13-acre park and lake, off Pease Road, were rededicated at a ceremony Saturday.

Scouts since March have been hard at work building benches and picnic tables for the dog-friendly park. The children and other local volunteers came out a week before the rededication for a cleanup that netted some 25 bags of trash.


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Aug200920

1:17 pm

Alesha Williams Boyd

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Go green, save greenbacks?

Manalapan may be looking to the sun to cut energy costs.A Freehold-based start-up is campaigning to lease solar panels to municipalities, businesses and quasi-governmental agencies in Western Monmouth County – free of charge.

Sun Pacific Power would purchase the panels and provide them to commercial, municipal and water treatment sites at no cost, said Sun Pacific spokesman and owner Nick Campanella. The company presented its first pitch to Manalapan Township Committee at its Aug. 12 meeting (Campanella was there. Really. He just didn’t get much attention amidst the brouhaha over the police chief ).

So how does Campanella’s company make its money? He says the company will look to Solar Renewable Energy Certificates and federal and state grants for its funding.


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