Category: Tri-Town News

  • Event brings messages of hope, a run for life

    BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Event brings messages of hope, a run for life BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer PLUMSTED — Where there is life, there is hope. It’s an old adage that has special meaning to cancer survivors and their families. That was evident at the third annual Allentown-Upper Freehold-New Egypt Relay For Life which…

  • You’re about to enter the ‘Rondinone Zone’

    Sportswriter pens themysterious BY KARL VILACOBAStaff Writer You’re about to enter the ‘Rondinone Zone’ Sportswriter pens the mysterious ‘Ten Tales to Make Your Head Explode’ BY KARL VILACOBA Staff Writer If there’s a middle ground between the worlds of sports and horror, it could be professional wrestling. So it may not be a surprise that…

  • Visit to garden shop

    Visit to garden shop leads to arrest, jail Police were called after two men tried to buy 25 pounds of fertilizer BY ANNIKA MENGISEN Correspondent Alberto Sanchez-Lopez, 32, of Jackson, was sitting in the Monmouth County jail, Freehold Township, this week waiting for a court appearance and not fully understanding the nature of the crime…

  • Howell officer on the spot for parkway rescue effort

    BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer Jason Baratta BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer HOWELL — What started out to be the routine transport of a prisoner from another jurisdiction back to Howell turned out to be more eventful than expected for Patrolman Jason Baratta. As Baratta, an officer with the Howell Police Department, was traveling north on the Garden…

  • Seniors eligible for tax break

    LAKEWOOD — Municipal officials have announced that the township will continue to provide assistance to eligible resident seniors in filing applications for the 2003 Property Tax Reimbursement, now that the New Jersey Division of Taxation has announced a filing extension to Aug. 2. The Property Tax Reimbursement program reimburses eligible seniors and disabled persons for…

  • Work begins on new bridge at Route 9 and Route 522

    Work begins on new bridge at Route 9 and Route 522 FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Con-struction crews created a staging area and began clearing trees and brush along Route 522 and Route 9 last week as work got under way on a project that will see the construction of a new bridge. The state Department of…

  • School gets free books from Target

    JACKSON — When students at the Johnson Elementary School want to say thank you, they usually do it in a card or letter. But after the Target Corp. donated $10,000 in books to the school’s library, a card just didn’t seem like it would be enough. So the students — all 632 of them —…

  • Rev. Butts to address 30th NAACP banquet

    BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Rev. Butts to address 30th NAACP banquet BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer LAKEWOOD — The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III is an educator, civil rights activist and man of God. On Friday, he will be the guest speaker at the NAACP’s 30th annual Freedom Fund banquet at the Eagle Ridge Golf…

  • FRHSD told to expect 1,200 more students

    Projection for nextfive years leaves needfor new school unclear BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Projection for next five years leaves need for new school unclear BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Freehold Regional High School District representatives have been told there will be 12,100 students in the district by 2008. Now they must decide how to handle…