Category: Tri-Town News

  • World’s fastest roller coaster to thrill guests

    JACKSON – Six Flags Great Adven-ture will launch the tallest and fastest roller coaster on Earth, the keystone of a new mythical jungle kingdom which will also feature an elaborate children’s area and massive tiger exhibit for the 2005 season. “This announcement represents the largest expansion in the 30-year history of Six Flags Great Adventure,”…

  • Plumsted celebration moves to Main Street

    BY KAREN F. RILEY Correspondent BY KAREN F. RILEYCorrespondent PLUMSTED — Most farmers pray for rain to nourish their crops. However, rain was an uninvited guest at this year’s Harvest Fest. The three-day event is a celebration for the community, its residents and business owners. “Many of your rural American towns use this concept of…

  • Agency handles bulk of public records requests

    New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Bradley M. Campbell released a report on the agency’s second year implementing New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act (OPRA). The DEP has received the vast majority of state records requests, handling more than 17,500 requests in OPRA’s first two years — more than 55 percent of the…

  • Datebook

    • Teen Movies, a free film series for young adults, will be held at the Howell library, 318 Old Tavern Road. Films to be shown are “Grease,” Oct. 7 at 4 p.m. and “The Nutty Professor” at 4 p.m. Oct. 21. Details: (732) 938-2300. • A “Psychic Fair” will be sponsored by the Women’s Auxiliary…

  • Girl, 14, recovers after unusual pool accident

    Family grateful for aid from emergency workers, neighbors BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer BY SUE M. MORGANStaff Writer When Karen Iucci heard her two teenage daughters scream from the swimming pool outside her Old Bridge home one day last month, she feared the worst. Iucci, now living in the New Egypt section of Plumsted,…

  • Howell adopts tougher riparian buffer ordinance

    HOWELL — The township’s riparian buffer ordinance was adopted by the Township Council Sept. 21. The ordinance was supposed to have been adopted in July but it was pulled from the council’s agenda so the township attorney could give it a final comprehensive review. The new riparian buffer ordinance prevents any construction or placement of…

  • H.S. growth expected to slow over next 5 years

    Pace of enrollment may change, but more pupils coming BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Demographers who work for the Freehold Regional High School District summarized their five-year projections regarding student population changes at a recent meeting of the Board of Education. Their primary conclusion was that growth is still occurring, but…

  • Republicans propose government reforms

    Plan focuses on hiring of relatives, award of contracts BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Members of the Howell Township Council who can obtain health care benefits through their place of employment or their spouse’s place of employment should do so and should not accept the benefits available to them through the…