Category: Tri-Town News
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Field of 10 seeking seats on Howell school board
BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Field of 10 seeking seats on Howell school board BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer HOWELL — Residents will have a large group of candidates to choose from when they go to the polls on April 20 to vote in the Board of Education election. Polling hours on Election Day will be…
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Mayor, NAACP head trade barbs over housing
BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer LAKEWOOD — Lakewood’s dead are competing with its living for a place to call home. The board of trustees for Greenwood Cemetery, Cedar Bridge Avenue, the final resting place of many black Americans, wants the same land off Cedar Bridge Avenue that the township will vacate…
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Project not set for hearing
BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer JACKSON — The zoning board will not hear an application filed by developer Mitch Leigh when it meets on April 21. Leigh is proposing to build the Jackson Commons commercial project and will be seeking two variances from the zoning board. Initial indications were that the…
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Rabbi ponders punishment for 4 charged in bias crimes
BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Rabbi ponders punishment for 4 charged in bias crimes BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer LAKEWOOD — Rabbi Shimon Grama may need the wisdom of Solomon to help decide the fate of four boys charged last fall in a series of bias incidents. According to Grama, last month Karen Squires of the…
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Board members fear voters will nix budget
Lakewood residents willhave say on 14.7-centincrease on April 20 BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Board members fear voters will nix budget Lakewood residents will have say on 14.7-cent increase on April 20 BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer LAKEWOOD — Following a marathon session that lasted from 7 p.m. March 29 until 2 a.m. March 30, the…
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Rebuilding Iraq proves challenging task
Marlboro BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer Marlboro’s Jeff Cantor led unit that set up PHOTOS COURTESY OF JEFF CANTOR The civil affairs unit of U.S. Army Maj. Jeff Cantor of Marlboro (second from right) was entrusted with the job of establishing a new democratic form of government in Kirkuk, Iraq, a hotbed of ethnic tensions. new govt.…
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Local youngsters aid church’s fund-raising effort
BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Samantha Daesener’s church, the First Presbyterian Church, West Main Street, needs a $1 million addition, so Daesener encouraged her Sunday school class to come up with ways to raise funds. In a short time, the 11- and 12-year-olds raised almost $1,000, surprising their teacher…
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Region has low crime rate, FBI says
Recently released statistics contained in FBI Uniform Crime Reports for 2002 indicate that the Monmouth-Ocean County area has the fourth lowest crime rate in the United States, according to the Sperling’s Best Places, which has been in the business of analyzing data about people and places for the last 16 years. The firm provides ratings…
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Howell couple found guilty, fined for harassing neighbor
Dispute centered onspecial bus stop for neighborhood child BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Howell couple found guilty, fined for harassing neighbor Dispute centered on special bus stop for neighborhood child BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer HOWELL — A husband and wife were found guilty of harassment last week, resulting from an ongoing dispute with their next…
