Category: Tri-Town News

  • Department still seeking new funding

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — The six-week stay of termination given to Howell’s Youth and Family Services Department on July 1 may be winding down to the inevitable conclusion: the closing of the department. Municipal officials cited concerns over spending and did not include the Youth and Family Services…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Federal funds will boost study of MOM rail lines

    A $1.25 million federal earmark for the proposed Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex passenger rail line will assure the project studies will move forward, said Ocean County Freeholder James F. Lacey, who serves as board liaison to the rail line project. “This is outstanding news,” Lacey said. “We want to thank the hard work and the continuing effort of…