Category: Tri-Town News

  • Banquet honors NAACP’s commitment to education

    BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer LAKEWOOD — The value of an education provides food for thought. Guests at the local NAACP’s 32nd annual Freedom Fund Banquet will be able to digest that idea — literally — when noted educator Donald L. Clark discusses the importance of an education on June 17.…

  • Board trims school tab, reduces tax hike to 5.2¢

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — Board of Education members voted June 1 to accept the $1.33 million cut made by the Township Council to the 2005-06 school year budget. The board had proposed a $98.6 million budget that included an increase in the school tax rate of 7.5 cents…

  • Howell police issue warning about telephone solicitations

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — The Howell Police Department wants the community to be aware that there may be an entity operating in the municipality that is soliciting contributions over the telephone purportedly for “the families of Howell police officers.” Cpl. Kevin Stout, president of PBA Local 228, told…

  • Jackson Optimist Club names new officers

    The Jackson Optimist Club has announced the names of the recently elected Executive Committee and Board of Directors for the upcoming year. They are Arnie Siegel, president; Joe Kienzlen, immediate past president; Vinny Rubio, president-elect; Pat Betancourt, vice president; Laura Debiak, secretary-treasurer. Sam DePasquale, Dave Furbish and Dave Franciosi have been elected to the Board…

  • Teens get taste of work world

    LAKEWOOD — Thirty members of the Lakewood High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) club now have a better idea about some of the skills they will need if they become an attorney, a web designer, a financial planner, a bank employee or a psychologist. On May 24, state Sen. Robert Singer’s office along…

  • Her slimmer bottom is so out of the club

    Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch I’ve decided that I’d be toothpick-thin by now if it weren’t for food. In fact, I gained 5 pounds yesterday simply walking past a cake. I’ll admit I may have had a small sliver and was then forced to slice off another sliver in order to even up the…

  • Job aid returns to town hall

    LAKEWOOD — Employment placement services are once again available to the public at the municipal building on Third Street, township officials have announced. The Urban Enterprise Zone Job Link/Network program in cooperation with the state Department of Labor had provided free placement services with the assistance of a department employee until the state reassigned personal…

  • Struggle ends in arrest of Lakewood resident

    BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer LAKEWOOD — Police subdued a man who broke into a township home and stole a knife and hammer on Monday night, according to police Capt. Rob Lawson. Police arrested an individual whose name is believed to be David Alcala, 26, of Coventry Drive. Lawson said the…

  • Economic consultants not retained

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — The Township Council has voted to eliminate the services of two paid economic development consultants. The two firms, MGR Resources and MB Gluck Shaw, currently under contract to Howell, each receive $48,000 annually, according to municipal officials. The services of MB Gluck Shaw were…