Category: Tri-Town News

  • Speed limit reduced on Buckalew Road

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — Despite objections from the police department’s traffic safety officer, the Township Council has voted to reduce the speed limit on Buckalew Road from 50 mph to 35 mph. The council took the action at its meeting on Nov. 23. The change was opposed by…

  • Students honored

    Biology majors from Monmouth University, West Long Branch, received a second-place award for best research poster presentation at the 37th annual Conference of the Metropolitan Associ-ation of College and University Biologists (MACUB) held Nov. 6, at Long Island University, Brooklyn, N.Y. More than 70 posters were presented. Under the supervision of Monmouth University biology professor…

  • Datebook

    • Ronald McDonald will be the guest for the morning at the Howell library, 318 Old Tavern Road, Dec. 9 at 9:30 a.m. He will be reading to children. • A holiday shopping fair will take place at the Community Bible Fellowship Church, 3071 Lakewood-Allenwood Road, Howell, Dec. 11 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.…

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff Jackson Memorial High School’s Bill Fenimore (l) and Kyle Nagy (r) console Joe Schroeder following the Jaguars’ 17-14 loss to East Brunswick in the Central Jersey Group IV state championship game at Rutgers Stadium, Piscataway, on Dec. 5. For story, see sports.

  • Strength of services boosts two counties

    In its November Research Report the Milken Institute’s Best Perfor-ming Cities Index ranks Mon-mouth-Ocean counties in the Top 10 Best Performing Cities in the United States for the second consecutive year. Trenton, the state capital, was the only other New Jersey community ranked in the Top 20, coming in at 19th place. According to a…

  • Panel fails to produce compromise on street

    Issue of new access road to Wall homes remains undecided BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Despite good intentions, an ad hoc committee that was formed to find a mutual resolution for a neighborhood conflict in Howell failed to reach a consensus and disbanded. George Krebs, who headed the panel, said it…

  • Local veterans get state Korean service medals

    The N.J. Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Division of Veterans Programs recently held an awards ceremony in which 282 veterans were presented with the New Jersey Korean Service Medal. To be eligible for the Korean Service Medal, veterans must be a current resident of New Jersey and have resided in the state for the…

  • Lakewood sells land for affordable housing

    Residents on both sides of the issue have their say BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Land owned by Lakewood is literally priceless. Municipal officials had not appraised two tracts of land off Pine Street, but Township Committee members voted to adopt ordinances that sold those parcels for the token sum of…

  • Optimists pull together for child with leukemia

    JACKSON — The Jackson Optimist Club, now in its fourth year of serving the community, recently held a benefit fund-raiser for 13-year-old Jackson resident Dana Jefferson as part of its commitment to the children of the community. More than 260 family members, Optimist members and neighbors attended the 1970s-type disco dance. Dana, a straight-A student…