Category: Tri-Town News
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Transit head: All three rail lines still on board
Assemblymen sought to remove Matawan and Red Bank options BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer The head of New Jersey Transit has said the agency will not take the possibility of passenger train lines from Ocean County to Matawan or Red Bank off the table. State assemblymen Michael J. Panter and Robert…
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Resident hesitant to feel pain of property reval
BY ADAM RIBACK Correspondent BY ADAM RIBACKCorrespondent Howell HOWELL — With a pending property revaluation scheduled for the near future, assessors may not be the most popular professionals in the community. Reaction has started to roll in since municipal officials hosted a public forum and residents who attended the meeting were told that some people…
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Jersey auction to benefit multiple sclerosis society
LAKEWOOD — The Lakewood BlueClaws will hold the fourth annual Lakewood BlueClaws Jersey Auction on Aug. 27 to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society, Mid-Jersey Chapter. “We are pleased to once again team with the Lakewood BlueClaws to help those living locally who have multiple sclerosis,” said Michael Elkow, president, National Multiple Sclerosis Society,…
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Nobel Peace Prize nominee to hold seminar
HOWELL — Good News International will sponsor a three-day workshop with Nobel Peace Prize nominee the Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy. The workshop, “The Nonviolent Jesus, Our Only Hope,” will be held Aug. 18 from 7-9 p.m. and Aug. 19-20, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at St. Veronica School, Route 9 north. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel…
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Fourth Walk with Joe set
The fourth annual Walk with Joe will be held on Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. at Battlefield State Park, Route 33, Manalapan. The walk started in 2002 as an opportunity to come together and show support for the family of Patrick “Joe” Driscoll, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93; the plane hijacked by terrorists…
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Police recover quads; arrest two suspects
BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer LAKEWOOD — Sometimes the good guys win. Lakewood police recovered Lori Cohen’s two stolen all-terrain vehicles one week after they were taken from the driveway of her home on Poplar Street. The grateful resident was ecstatic. “Thank you so much to the Lakewood police,” Cohen said…
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Monmouth felt impact of war on home front
World War II exhibit to debut on Aug. 23 at historical association BY ADAM RIBACK Correspondent BY ADAM RIBACKCorrespondent Monmouth County Historical Association museum curator Bernadette Rogoff prepares items for the upcoming “Home Front” exhibit, which will open to the public Aug. 23 FREEHOLD — The Monmouth County Historical Association, 70 Court Street, has created…
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Plan afoot to privatize counseling department
Insurance payments and sliding scale expected to be used BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Plans are being finalized for Howell’s Youth and Family Counseling Services Department to begin operating under the auspices of Preferred Behavioral Health (PBH), a multi-county, nonprofit, private agency whose administrative office is in neighboring Brick Township. Howell…
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Evidence of mosquito virus detected in Freehold sample
Evidence of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus in Monmouth County has been detected through the joint efforts of the Monmouth County Mosquito Extermination Commission (MCMEC), Rutgers Mosquito Research and Control and the New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS). According to a press release, on Aug. 10, officials from the NJDHSS laboratory…
