Category: Tri-Town News
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Thieves grab 2 ATVs
BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Lakewood police are investigating the theft of these two all-terrain vehicles from a home at Poplar Street and County Line Road. LAKEWOOD — The hottest toys this summer may be Lori Cohen’s stolen ATVs. In the early morning hours of Aug. 5, Cohen, 41, became another…
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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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Change of government will be in voters’ hands
Jackson residents can change future on Election Day BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Advocates of a 2003 initiative to change Jackson’s form of government are getting a second bite of the apple in 2005. By a vote of 3-2, members of the Jackson Charter Study Commission decided at their July 26…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Mike Reca performs as the Jester during Tuesday’s rehearsal for “Rumplestiltskin,” which will be performed Saturday at the Strand Theater, Lakewood. For the story, see page 3.
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Possible reuse of site on planners’ agenda
FEL location was contaminated over period of years BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Members of the Howell Planning Board are expected to discuss the potential redevelopment of the property that formerly housed Frequency Engineering Lab-oratories (FEL). The board will meet tonight in the municipal building. The FEL site is made up…
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Great Adventure plans to build hotel on site
Special meeting of Planning Board scheduled for tonight BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer JACKSON — Jackson’s biggest business has plans on the drawing board to get bigger. Representatives of Six Flags Great Adventure, Route 537, are expected to present an application to build the township’s first hotel when the Planning Board…
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Casting demonstration set
On Aug. 7, the Historic Village at Allaire, Wall Township, will be conducting a “19th Century Casting and Molding Demonstration” between 1-4 p.m. Located within the blacksmith shop, this living history presentation will re-create the craft of casting metal, which was an essential task at the Howell Works. During the 1830s the Howell Works was…
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Children work quickly to stage play at Strand
BY FRAIDY REISS Correspondent BY FRAIDY REISSCorrespondent CHRIS KELLY staff Katy Harrison, 13, will play the title role in “Rumplestiltskin” in a production to be staged at the Strand Theater, Lakewood, on Aug. 6. LAKEWOOD — On Monday morning Katy Harrison got the news: She has to become psychotic by Saturday. Katy, 13, of Lakewood,…
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Howell will tread lightly on pedophiles
BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — Officials will proceed with caution as they work on the possibility of developing an ordinance that would regulate where pedophiles may reside in Howell. The subject was the topic of discussion at the July 26 meeting of the Township Council. Although several Monmouth County…
