Category: Tri-Town News
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Jackson PBA not happy with brass
Jackson PBA not happy with brass JACKSON — Two years after the expiration of the township’s contract with Jackson PBA Local 168, one of two unions that represent the municipality’s police officers, the rank and file have yet to ratify a new agreement. Negotiations are currently in arbitration. The Superior Officers Union ratified a new…
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Freeholders to keep buses running despite reductions
Freeholders to keep buses running despite reductions A reduction in federal funding to Ocean County’s Transportation Program will be covered by the Ocean County Board of Freeholders. The board, as part of its 2004 county budget, allocated nearly $355,000 to cover this funding shortfall to avert any service reductions to existing Ocean Ride bus routes.…
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Freeholders support road work
Projects ranging from an expanded Garden State Parkway interchange to repavings and storm drain improvements will be funded by seven ordinances introduced by the Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders. The ordinances, totaling $18.97 million, include $590,000 for the "scoping" of an upgraded parkway interchange 91 in Brick Township. The scoping money, which will be…
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Scout project spruces up
McAuliffe school garden JACKSON — A group of Boy Scouts, leaders and friends from Troop 82 in Jackson got together on May 1 atthe Christa McAuliffe Middle School to help Boy Scout Dan Beach complete his Eagle Scout project — re-landscaping a garden at the front of the school. The project included first removing pebbles…
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Towns may be interested
in donating land for h.s. FRHSD examines options in case 7th school needed BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer Freehold Regional High School District administrators have taken the initial steps in attempting to determine if a new high school may need to be built and to secure property in the event that it is necessary. The…
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Millstone officials fear stadium will hurt town
BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer Millstone officials fear stadium will hurt town BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer MILLSTONE — A plan being advanced in Middlesex County to build a baseball stadium in Monroe Township has raised the ire of municipal officials in this rural, but developing community. In recent weeks, several Middlesex County officials have broached…
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CHRIS KELLY staff The Jackson home and gardens of Mike and Kim Venezia — complete with miniature train — will be one of the stops on a tour of local gardens sponsored by the Green Thumb Garden Club. For more, see page 11.
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McGreevey unveils one-way toll plan
McGreevey unveils one-way toll plan By year’s end, drivers on the Garden State Parkway will only have to pay tolls on one side of the major toll plazas in Sayreville and Asbury Park. Gov. James E. McGreevey unveiled a plan last week to institute a one-way toll program by removing toll barriers on the northbound…
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Jackson trims 2 cents off school tax increase
Savings to ownerof $150,000 homewill come to $30 BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Jackson trims 2 cents off school tax increase Savings to owner of $150,000 home will come to $30 BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer The Jackson Township Committee has unanimously approved a reduction in the amount of local property taxes that will be collected…
