Category: Tri-Town News
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Adult Girl Scout volunteer visits NASA
Renee G. Naden, of Jackson, is one of 28 experienced Girl Scouts of USA adult master trainers who experienced the inside story of a working NASA center this past October at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. The participants toured the labs where spacecraft designs and testing were done. They also experienced new Earth…
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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…
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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…
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Lakewood band fourth in All-States competition
BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer LAKEWOOD — With its show, “In the Time of Legends,” the Lakewood High School marching band placed fourth out of 13 bands that competed on Nov. 17 in the United States Scholastic Band Association (USSBA) All-States Marching Band Championships at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford. Haddon…
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Police officer remembered for service to community
When people who knew Marlboro police Cpl. Robert Edward Tossie Sr. think about him, they remember an upbeat, hard-working man. Tossie, a 25-year veteran of the Marlboro Police Department, died of cancer at his home in Lakewood on Nov. 15. He is remembered as one of the founding advisers of the department’s Police Explorers program,…
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Celebrate old world Christmas at Allaire
The Historic Village at Allaire State Park, Route 524, Wall Township, will present “Christmas at Allaire,” Dec. 4 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Dec. 5 from noon to 3:30 p.m. The event will feature a typical 19th-century Christmas celebration. Volunteers will recreate traditional holiday activities in the historic buildings of the village. There…
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Making movies
KATHY BARATTA Actress Dakota Fanning, 10, prepares for the day’s early morning scenes as she emerges from the makeup trailer that a Paramount movie crew set up in the parking lot of Our House Tavern, Route 524, Howell, when they came to town on Nov. 23 to film scenes for director Steven Spielberg’s remake of…
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State delivers extra aid to high school district
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer The Freehold Regional High School District has received $450,000 from the state for above average enrollment growth and $235,582 from the state as extraordinary aid. Administrators are planning to use the money for instructional supplies ($109,100); principal salary ($99,000); demographic services ($29,500); a long-range facilities plan…
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Datebook
• Build a tree and menorah out of books at the Howell library, Dec. 3, 2:30-5 p.m. Details: (732) 938-2300. • Rummage sale 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Dec. 3-4, at the First Baptist Church of Lakewood, First Street and Clifton Avenue, Lakewood. Details: (732) 363-0885. • New Egypt Home schoolers will host a parent…
