Category: Tri-Town Calendar

  • Christmas celebration offered at DeBow’s church

    DeBow’s United Methodist Church, at the intersection of Route 571 and Route 537 in Jackson, will present a Christmas celebration, featuring an outdoor live drama of the birth of Jesus, followed by carol singing and refreshments in DeBow’s Fellowship Hall on Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. Rain date for this event will be Dec. 21.…

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    VERONICA YANKOWSKI Kathy Abline (l-r), Anne Alberta and Roxane Southcott-Roberts sing Christmas carols as they are dressed in Victorian outfits during a Victorian holiday celebration in Jackson.

  • Garden State Philharmonic relocates to college

    Ocean County College and the Garden State Philharmonic announce that the philharmonic has relocated its offices to OCC’s off-campus location at 150 Brick Blvd. in Brick. To celebrate the move and the new alliance formed between the philharmonic and the college, an informal gathering of GSP and OCC board of directors and community members was…

  • Jackson VFW slates

    New Year The Jackson Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 4703, 54 Magnolia Dr., will hold its annual New Year’s Eve Party on Dec. 31 at the post home. Tickets are $25 per person and will include DJ music, a full hot and cold buffet, snacks, open bar, champagne toast and party favors. Doors will…

  • Holy Family PTA gets ready to boost school community

    LAKEWOOD — If you don’t happen to have a village, the next best way to raise a child might be through your place of worship. That is the reasoning behind a plan by new principal Sister Carolyn Houck to form a PTA for the first time at the 27-year-old elementary school run by Holy Family…

  • Pythians donate more than 500 cell phones

    The Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias, Domain of New Jersey, has provided more than 500 recharged and programmable cell phones to 9-1-1 to various special needs groups throughout the state since the summer of 2002. Cerebral Palsy of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, Catholic Charities’ Providence House Battered Women’s Shelter, Livings ton Senior Citizen Center and…

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    VERONICA YANKOWSKI Casey and Connor McKenzie meet the man of the season, Santa Claus, at the Holiday Extravaganza held Dec. 7 at the New Egypt Elementary School, Plumsted.

  • Board names Farmingdale rep

    A new representative for Farmingdale has taken her seat on the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education. Kathie Lavin, who has lived in Farmingdale for 16 years, will fill the seat left open when Colin Miller resigned from the board in October. She joined the board on Nov. 18. Lavin said she has…

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    VERONICA YANKOWSKI Bridgette Buckalew, 6, hides from crafters under a table and uses her new binoculars to spot potential shoppers at the Holiday Extravaganza held at the New Egypt Elementary School, Plumsted, on Dec. 7.