Category: Tri-Town Calendar

  • Seniors Hanukkah Party slated in Lakewood

    Seniors Hanukkah Party slated in Lakewood Beth Medrash Govoha Yeshiva College of Lakewood and the Kokes Organization are co-sponsoring the second annual Seniors Hanukkah Party. Older adults throughout the Lakewood area are invited to attend on Dec. 2 from 4-6 p.m. at the Ramada Inn, 2373 Route 9. This event will include a lively presentation…

  • Request for zoning change denied

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — A Hazlet developer, Matzel and Mumford, has requested that a piece of land be rezoned to allow for the construction of a planned retirement community, but members of the Township Committee agreed they are not interested in making the switch. At a recent workshop meeting, committee members dismissed the request that had…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ George Barnwell of Lakewood was hard at work last week carving a turkey that will find its way to the home of a needy family just in time for Thanksgiving as a result of the efforts of the Macedonia Baptist Church Mission in Lakewood.

  • Five arrested in false identification scheme

    HOWELL — An alleged criminal enterprise was halted on Nov. 8 through the execution of a search warrant and the arrest of five individuals. According to a press release issued by the office of Monmouth County Prosecutor John Kaye, members of the prosecutor’s Narcotics Strike Force joined with Howell police and agents of the U.S.…

  • Local crochet guild seeks yarn donations

    Local crochet guild seeks yarn donations The Lakewood Community School’s Pine Needlers Crochet Guild’s October meeting welcomed Mary Petrow, director of Providence House of Catholic Char-ities, the Ocean County shelter for victims of domestic violence, and Theresa Jones, supervising case worker at the shelter. Guild members were treated to a video tour of the women’s…

  • Ronald McDonald performed for Scouts

    Ronald McDonald performed for Scouts Recently, grades pre-K through fourth at the St. Aloysius School in Jackson, and the students of Nellie Bennett Elementary School in Point Pleasant were treated to a performance by Ronald McDonald. As a way of saying thanks to the Girl Scouts and their loyal supporters for collecting one million soda…

  • Halloween contest winners announced

    Halloween contest winners announced Lakewood annual Halloween Fun Festival for Lakewood children took place Oct. 31 in Town Square. The event was sponsored by the Township Committee in cooperation with the Lakewood Police Department, Lakewood PBA, Lakewood SOA, Lakewood dispatchers, the Lake-wood Fire Department and the Lakewood Community School. The winners of the Halloween Costume…

  • Library to offer free holiday craft program

    Library to offer free holiday craft program The Jackson branch of the Ocean County Library, 2 Jackson Drive, will be hosting a free craft program for families and individuals where they will make a Holiday Card Hanger, on Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. This program is open to residents age 7 through adult and preregistration…

  • Allaire Village offers old-time Thanksgiving

    Allaire Village Inc., the nonprofit group supporting the educational programming at Historic Allaire Village, Route 524, Wall Township, will present "A 19th Century Thanksgiving," a living history event to be held in the restored ironworks company town, Nov. 24 from noon to 3 p.m. Admission is free. Festivities will begin with a 1830s Thanksgiving service…