Category: Tri-Town News

  • Greater Media Newspapers purchases Latinos Unidos

    Greater Media Newspapers Inc. has announced the purchase of Latinos Unidos, a 25,000 circulation, monthly Spanish language newspaper serving Ocean, Monmouth and Mid-dlesex counties. Greater Media Newspapers currently publishes 12 weekly newspapers serving Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties, with a combined weekly circulation of 305,000. Latinos Unidos, founded and owned by Jackson resident Jorge A.…

  • Educators, parents fight funding law

    S-1701 places caps on school spending, surplus amounts BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer As promised, a group of parents from Middletown, Monmouth County, delivered more than 1,000 letters to the New Jersey School Boards Association office in Trenton on Jan. 13 in an effort to contest a new law that limits…

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    SEAN DWYER Brannon Cho, 10, of Glassboro, performs Haydn’s “Gypsy Rondo Trio” during a Jan. 14 concert at Jackson Memorial High School that was a benefit for the children of guidance counselor Michael Tomaino. The Tomaino children are battling metachromatic leukodystrophy.

  • High school drama program nominated to represent U.S.

    Monsignor Donovan High School, Toms River, has been nominated to represent the United States at the 2006 American High School Theatre Festival (AHSTF) in Edinburgh, Scotland. AHSTF is a collaboration of the finest American high school drama programs, showcasing the nation’s best at the world’s largest performing arts festival, according to a press release. The…

  • Council expected to select newest member of panel

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — Members of the Township Council were expected to appoint a resident to the governing body Tuesday to fill the seat left open when Joseph M. DiBella became mayor. The finalists for the position were Wayne Lucey, Edward Skibicki and Robert Walsh. At the time…

  • Study will reveal scope of agri-tourism industry

    To determine the impact of the agri-tourism industry on the state’s economy, the New Jersey Department of Agriculture has authorized Rutgers University’s Food Policy Institute to conduct a comprehensive one-year study on agri-tourism in the Garden State, which is set to commence within the next few weeks. According to a press release, agri-tourism is the…

  • Kindergarten registration in Jackson scheduled

    Jackson parents are advised that forms, which need to be completed before actual registration, will be available in all elementary schools during regular school hours beginning Feb. 28. To be eligible for registration, children must be 5 years of age on or before Oct. 1, 2005, and in accordance with Public Law – Chapter 14,…

  • Trips to China build family in Manalapan

    Parents open heart, home to 3 children adopted in Asia BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Pamela and Rich Stockwell moved to Manalapan from South Carolina just over three years ago. At the time, the Stockwells were a family of three with a daughter they had adopted in China. Now, with the…

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    PHOTO COURTESY OF JACKSON SCHOOLS Jackson Mayor Michael Broderick and N.J. Environmental Water Watch Program Coordinator Jeanine Cava help students navigate through an environmental lesson at Crawford-Rodriguez Elementary School. In this lesson the students were following the path of water as it travels from the clouds, through streets and neighborhoods and into the water supply.…