Category: Tri-Town Calendar

  • Bulletin Board Area blood drives slated for the month of May

    Bulletin Board Area blood drives slated for the month of May The Central Jersey Blood Center will hold blood drives throughout the area during May. Blood drives will take place at the following locations and times: • May 11 – 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Howell Junior Girl Scout Troop No. 370 at Howell Donor…

  • Dispatcher hearing delayed

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta HOWELL — The postponement of the criminal trial of three Lakewood police officers charged with beating a Lakewood resident has also postponed indefinitely the departmental hearing of a Howell Police Department dispatcher facing charges stemming from the Lakewood incident. Dispatcher Robert Strauch is facing charges brought by Howell Police Chief…

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    VERONICA YANKOWSKI United States soccer star Clint Mathis hosted a clinic in Manalapan on April 23 and made his young fans happy when he took time to sign autographs. Mathis will be heading to Korea and Japan this month with the U.S. national team for competition in World Cup 2002.

  • Democrats trying to unseat Larrison, Powers in county

    Correspondent By dick metzgar Democrats trying to unseat Larrison, Powers in county Democratic challengers and Republican incumbents will run unopposed in the June 4 primary for the right to represent their party in the November election for Monmouth County freeholder. Two three-year seats on the Board of Freeholders will be up for grabs Nov. 5.…

  • Discovery of body leads to charges

    LAKEWOOD — Police arrested a Jersey City man and charged him with murder on Sunday. According to Executive Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Gregory J. Sakowicz, Lakewood police discovered the body of Rashon Roy, approximately 30 years old, in the parking lot of the High Point at Lakewood condominium complex, Prospect Avenue. According to Sakowicz, the…

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    VERONICA YANKOWSKI Jackson Jaguars third baseman Tim Williams loses the ball while trying to make a tag on Lincroft’s Chris Kamma during a recent game in Middletown. Williams and his teammates have been holding fund-raisers for a year, trying to raise $8,000 to pay for a summer trip to a tournament in Cooperstown, N.Y.

  • Rabbi’s trial may be headed this way

    The retrial of a Cherry Hill rabbi accused of arranging the 1994 murder of his wife may be held in Monmouth County or Ocean County sometime in August. According to an April 19 article in The Philadelphia Inquirer, state Superior Court Judge Linda G. Baxter has agreed to move the trial out of Camden County.…

  • Administrators leave district

    Staff Writer By dave benjamin Two Freehold Regional High School District employees who had filed civil suits against the district have settled their suits and left the school system. On April 15, the Board of Education accepted the resignation of Dr. Louis Talarico, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. Talarico took a leave of absence…

  • Young named teacher of year

    Dr. Claribel Young, professor of history at Georgian Court College, Lakewood, received the 2002-03 Teacher of the Year Award for College Teaching Excellence in New Jersey by the N.J. Studies Academic Alliance. The N.J. Studies Academic Alliance Award recognizes innovation and creativity in teaching New Jersey studies. Young was awarded the certificate by the NJSAA…