Category: Tri-Town News

  • Focus on egg farm land has residents scrambling

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — About 50 residents showed up a recent Planning Board meeting to protest moves by the board they say will turn a local egg farm into an apartment complex. The residents were upset with the wording of a board resolution that appeared to favor a…

  • Students get a glimpse of road to Broadway

    Producers, authors describe work it takes to stage a play in NYC BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer PHOTOSBY DAVE BENJAMIN Jay and Cindy Gutterman explain how, as producers, they help to bring creative works to life. Performing arts students at Howell and Manalapan high schools recently received a firsthand glimpse of…

  • WISE volunteers sought to help seniors

    The Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Council of Ocean, Inc. (ADACO) will soon offer the WISE (Wellness Initiative with Senior Educators) program, a free educational class on aging and drug misuse, at locations in Lakewood, Plumsted and Jackson. The WISE program is a substance abuse prevention program targeting older adults. The curriculum was designed to meet…

  • Cunliffe sets ambitious agenda for Lakewood

    BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer LAKEWOOD — Charles Cunliffe will be Lakewood’s mayor for 2005, succeeding Raymond Coles, who remains a member of the Township Committee. The members of the committee unanimously elected Cunliffe mayor at the Jan. 2 reorganization meeting. Cunliffe paid tribute to Coles’ public service. “I don’t know…

  • Many thanks Mr. Mayor

    KATHY BARATTA Timothy J. Konopka (second from left), who served as Howell’s mayor from 1997 through 2004, is flanked by members of the Township Council on Sunday as new Mayor Joseph DiBella presents him with an award honoring his eight years in office.

  • New Egypt church plans open mic night Jan. 8

    PLUMSTED — The New Egypt United Methodist Church is extending an invitation for Christian music performers to share their music at its second “Saturday Coffee House” planned for Jan. 8. “Our last two coffee houses had such good attendance that we have decided to open this up to other performers who have Christian music to…

  • He makes driving off sound very simple

    Lori C linch Are We There Yet? Well, he went ahead and did it. I asked him not to, pleaded in fact. I even offered cash compensation — but he ignored my offers and became old enough to drive anyway. I didn’t even realize how hard it would be, until just the other day, when…

  • Internet search can yield military medals, records

    BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Monmouth County native David Engebretson, 72, is his family’s historian, collecting information to send to his children, grandchildren and his brother’s daughters. He recently acquired replacements of his father’s medals from World War I and his own medals from the Korean War by downloading a form…

  • Music club winners perform in New York

    The Cecilian Music Club, based in Howell, presented its seventh annual Young Artist Competition Winners Recital on Dec. 4 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. The students who performed in the concert had played for a panel of judges, who awarded points for musicianship, memory and performance style. The winners…