The HOWELL Times
Vol. 23 - No. 10
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Photo by Andrew Rice Veterans paraded down the center of the festival to the main stage area in the beginning of the day. By Andrew Rice FREEHOLD – Olde Freehold Day was hosted at Lake Topanemus Park to honor veterans for their service and sacrifices that they
made, while also celebrating the local community. The festivities kicked off with a memorial ceremony at 11 a.m. to honor those from the
area who have served our country. The ceremony was performed in front of the flagstaffs that overlook the lake, before the veterans and their families marched
through the festival to the main stage area, where several speakers took the stage to show support for the troops and officially open the (Veterans - See Page 3)
Nonprofit Helps Wounded Warrior Build New Home
By Bob Vosseller HOWELL – She was raised in Jackson, has lived for three decades in Point Pleasant and by the end of the year Ar my Major Dolly Harris will be moving into her fully customized home in Howell
thanks to Homes For Our Troops (HFOT). “I never thought I’d be a ca nd id at e for this,” Harris said. She remarked that HFOT volunteers were like “a family that you can count on and they don’t forget you.”
Harris said she loved her Point Pleasant home but that due to her disabilities it was becoming increasingly difficult to live there. Her current non-adapted home has narrow doorways creating daily challenges with moving
from room to room. The new home in Howell has an accessible shower, open floor plan, and a kitchen with pulldown shelving. She enlisted in the New Jersey Army National Guard in 1988. “In 2005 I was ex-
posed to environmental toxins,” she said. This happened during her combat deployment in Iraq when she was serving with the 42nd Division as a logistics officer. She was exposed to burn
(Warrior - See Page 2)
August 16, 2025
Victim’s Mom Testifies In Teacher Sex Abuse Case
By Stephanie Faughnan FREEHOLD – Preliminary hearings before Superior Court Judge Jill Grace O’Malley continued in the case of a former special needs teacher accused of sexually abusing a teenage student. The session opened with Monmouth County Prosecutor Danielle Zanzuccki questioning the victim’s mother about when her son disclosed the alleged relationship. Allison Havemann-Niedrach, 44, of Jackson, is charged with engaging in a sexual relationship with her 15-year-old student while working as a special education teacher in an eighth-grade classroom at Freehold Borough Intermediate School. Prosecutors allege the conduct included sexual encounters in her car and home, thousands of sexually explicit messages, and the creation of child sexual abuse materials. She faces seven counts: first-degree aggravated sexual assault, first-degree endangering the welfare of a child through the manufacture of child sexual abuse materials, two counts of second-degree endangering, second-degree official misconduct, second-degree sexual assault, and third-degree endangering. Havemann-Niedrach approached the defense table using a cane and sat next to attorneys Thomas Huth and newly added co-counsel Matthew Mordas. During the testimony of three separate witnesses, she kept her eyes down, tapped her fingers lightly on the table, and occasionally looked at papers in front of her attorneys. Mother’s Testimony The teenage victim’s mother said her first contact with police came in June 2024, when the Freehold Borough Police Department asked her to bring her son to the station. Officers told her only that a teacher had been “inappropriate” with her son and that they wanted to speak with him privately. She was not present during the interview and could not hear the discussion. Afterward, she signed a consent form allowing police to search her son’s cellphone, which they kept. The teenager went to work (Case - See Page 4)
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