Category: Tri-Town News

  • Band provides musical take on historic figures

    Lakewood High School musicians garner awards during fall BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer PHOTOS BY AIMEE TERRANOVA Above, members of the Lakewood High School marching band perform their fall show “In the Time of Legends” on Nov. 6. At right, Lakewood High School marching band director Benjamin Schwartz offers suggestions to…

  • Catwalkers to stage comedy

    DAVE BENJAMIN Alice (Rory Fish), the youngest child in the Sycamore family, gets advice from Grandpa (Paul Pontrelli) as the Colts Neck High School Catwalkers prepare to stage “You Can’t Take It With You.” COLTS NECK — The Sycamores are coming to the Colts Neck High School stage. The Cougar Catwalkers Drama Club will entertain…

  • Speed along Church Road concerns Howell resident

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — A longtime Church Road resident says motorists are driving too fast along her street and she wants the Township Council to do something about it. Petra Murray, who has lived for more than 20 years on the curve of Church Road, said the traffic…

  • Drive seeks food, clothing, toys

    Oldies 100 (WJRZ-FM) in conjunction with the Pepsi Bottling Group will host the fifth annual “Share the Joy” live broadcast from Foodtown on Highland Boulevard, adjacent to Route 37, Toms River. The event will be held Nov. 19 and continue until a 45-foot Pepsi tractor is filled with nonperishable foods, gently used clothing and new…

  • Discussion touches on door-to-door solicitors

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — In an effort to keep track of people who are going door to door in the community, the Township Council is considering starting what officials dubbed a “no-knock list.” Similar to a federal law that prevents telemarketers from calling people who do not wish…

  • Girl Scout fun

    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Girl Scouts from Monmouth and Ocean counties gather around a campfire during a hoedown square dance sponsored by the Monmouth Council of Girl Scouts at Camp Sacajawea,Howell, on Nov. 13.

  • Datebook

    • “Speech Therapy Techniques” will be presented by the Howell Township Special Education Parent Advisory Coun-cil Nov. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Taunton School Media Center, Taunton Drive, Howell. Techniques and tools will be presented to demonstrate how working the muscles can help to improve children’s speech. Details: (732) 942-1516. • The Harry O’Claire…

  • County completes household hazardous waste collection

    From pesticides to herbicides, from aerosol cans to auto products and from mercury to propane tanks, when all was said and done, the 2004 Ocean County Household Hazardous Waste Collection program allowed residents to remove a combined 446,689 pounds of these materials from attics, basements and garages for proper disposal. “By participating in this program,…

  • Family copes with loss, urges teens to reach out

    Suicide is on the rise and is the third leading cause of death for teens BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer MILLSTONE — The mother of a 15-year-old boy who committed suicide last month is hoping others can learn from her family’s tragedy. “I ask myself all the time, maybe if we…