Category: Tri-Town News

  • Information at libraries to focus on men’s health

    Men’s health issues will be highlighted on Nov. 10 as the Ocean County Health Department and the Ocean County Library co-sponsor the first Handsome in Blue day, according to Edward Rumen, health department spokesman. To help foster awareness of the issues, residents are being asked to wear blue on that day. “There is a need…

  • Superintendent reports on violence, vandalism

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer The Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education recently held its annual public hearing to report on the number of acts of violence, vandalism and substance abuse that occurred in the previous school year. The FRHSD is the largest high school district in New Jersey…

  • Day laborers’ hiring at issue in town

    Lakewood officials consider idea of starting muster zone BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Officials in Lakewood are considering the possibility of starting a municipal muster zone so that day laborers who presently congregate on Clifton Avenue (pictured) in order to seek employment would not have to do so…

  • New system to help emergency responders

    Monmouth County Sheriff Joseph W. Oxley announced an upgrade in communications capabilities for both of the Sheriff’s Office Field Communications Mobile Command centers. The new system, the ACU-1000 modular radio interoperability system, permits communication between agencies that have different radio bands and frequencies. Oxley is taking the mobile command units to local emergency responders to…

  • DiBella says GOP has Howell on right track

    Mayoral candidate says Democratic foe is wrong on all issues BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer HOWELL — Republican mayoral candidate Joseph M. DiBella says Democrat Steve Farkas’ plan for saving Howell taxpayers money is flawed and would make for “bigger government that would cost more.” Farkas and DiBella, who has been…

  • Plumsted artwork featured at library

    Photographs depicting life in New Egypt currently on display BY KAREN F. RILEY Correspondent BY KAREN F. RILEYCorrespondent PLUMSTED — When one thinks of art, galleries with pictures hanging on the walls usually come to mind. The Plumsted Council for the Arts decided to close their season with just such an exhibition that opened on…

  • Ryan seeks write-ins to be Howell’s mayor

    Wants to provide alternative to voters fed up with GOP, Dems BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Richard Ryan HOWELL — A fourth candidate for mayor is focusing his effort solely on a write-in campaign. Richard Ryan, Maxim-Southard Road, said he is running independent of other established political parties because, “I believe…

  • Jackson candidates spar as campaign hits stretch

    BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer JACKSON — With Election Day, Nov. 2, less than a month away, Township Committee candidates Joseph Grisanti and Mark Seda made one last appeal for the job during a debate held at the Jackson Elks Club on Oct. 13. The Jackson Chamber of Commerce sponsored the…

  • Dem hopeful: Context explains ‘muzzle’ quote

    Morlino knocks GOP for BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Steve Morlino of Howell, a Democratic candidate running for a three-year seat on the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders, claims he has been victimized by a Republican machine that “can’t run their candidates on their record so they resort to distortion and…