Category: Tri-Town News

  • Auditions

    Community Christian Choir, an interfaith group of singers from New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania that rehearses in Allentown, N.J., will hold open auditions at 7 p.m. Jan. 21, 28 and Feb. 4 at the Allentown Presbyterian Church, Route 539. The choir will be rehearsing a variety of contemporary Christian music for a series of benefit…

  • Critics shine light on artists in SICA exhibit

    “After Dance With You” by Grace Junkwook Rim Fourteen contemporary artists are featured in a new exhibit at the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts (SICA). “Critics Select,” curated by D. Dominick Lombardi, is on exhibit at SICA, 20 Third Ave., Long Branch, through Feb. 27. Lombardi invited seven noted critical art writers to choose…

  • Hold that diet until the Christmas fudge is gone

    Lori C linch Are We There Yet? I despise the TV programming this time of year. It’s “weight-loss” this and “diet” that. Exercise more, eat less and you’ll work your derriere right down to a size 6. I wish. I did some figuring the other day and calculated that I’ve lost a total of 1,148…

  • Fun lesson delivers environmental message

    BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer JACKSON — The township’s elementary school students have no super powers, but they are learning to save the planet one drop of water at a time. “You have to make people understand from an early age that we all have a huge impact on the environment…

  • State bill seeks cap on college tuition

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Assemblyman Robert Morgan (D-Monmouth and Mercer) wants to do something about the rising cost of college tuition. In November, Morgan introduced Assembly Bill No. 3488. The bill would prohibit the governing board of a public institution of higher education from approving an increase in tuition and…

  • Environmental panel upsets Howell council

    Letter critical of plan to develop Route 33 sent to county planners BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — Township officials are not happy that the local environmental commission sent a letter to the Monmouth County Planning Board that was critical of the Township Council’s proposal to develop Route 33. The…

  • Receptionist charged at Lakewood clinic

    BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer LAKEWOOD — Liza Berdiel, 24, of Lakewood, was arrested and charged on Jan. 13 with performing abortions without a medical license, according to Lt. Robert Urie, acting press officer with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. Berdiel, a receptionist at the Pleasant Women’s Pavilion, East County Line…

  • On Campus

    Michael Ryan DeRienzo, son of Kerri and Michael DeRienzo of Howell, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the University of Delaware, Newark, Del., where he is a freshman majoring in communications. Johnson & Wales University, Providence, R.I., has named the following local students, all associate degree candidates from Howell,…

  • Kafton, Rickabaugh trade political fire

    BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer JACKSON — Deputy Mayor Michael Kafton, a Democrat, is not up for re-election this year, but he was squarely in Republicans’ line of fire at the Township Committee’s meeting on Jan. 10. Trouble for Kafton began shortly after the meeting was opened to public comment. Former…