Category: Tri-Town News
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Council will act to halt stopping near gas facility
BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer HOWELL — A pair of ordinances focusing on a local security measure and public notification related to land use have been introduced by the Township Council and have drawn critical fire. Both ordinances will be up for a public hearing, second reading and adoption at the…
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Monmouth Girl Scouts name board of directors
Monmouth Girl Scouts name board of directors HOWELL — Monmouth Council of Girl Scouts introduced its Board of Directors for 2004-06 during its 42nd annual council meeting, held on Jan. 14. The Monmouth Council of Girl Scouts Board of Directors includes officers, members-at-large and four teenage girls who currently are Senior Girl Scouts. The new…
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Ideas come tumbling out of local inventor
Howell woman enjoysa career producing,marketing products BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer Howell woman enjoys a career producing, marketing products BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Lisa Ascolese of Howell, who invents and markets products, looks over inventions that her daughters, Giana, 8, (l) and Brittany, 13, are working on. When Lisa Williams Ascolese was…
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Board to reveal school transportation details
Courtesy busing forhigh school studentsappears to be saved BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Courtesy busing for high school students appears to be saved BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer Public and private high school students may not have to walk to school after all, according to Lakewood Superintendent of Schools Ernest Cannava. Two months after a draft…
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An uncommon woman, an uncommon life
Opera singer Lois Hunt now lives a quiet life in Roosevelt BY LINDA DeNICOLAStaff Writer BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer Lois Hunt and Earl Wrightson performed with more than 50 symphonies. Like an opera in three acts, the libretto of Lois Hunt’s life is dramatic and colorful, but for the most part, without the tragedy…
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Resident claims revised dog law is no solution
BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Resident claims revised dog law is no solution BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer HOWELL — A dog nuisance ordinance adopted by a 3-2 vote of the Township Council in December has already come under fire from a resident who says the new law has made his bad situation worse. The challenge…
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Howell officials cool to idea of ‘pay-to-play’ ordinance
BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer HOWELL — A request has been made for the Township Council to enact an ordinance that would ban the political practice that is commonly referred to as "pay- to-play." Pay-to-play is the practice that has come to describe a system in which professionals such as engineers,…
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Grant will help county address ongoing growth
Grant will help county address ongoing growth With the legal review completed, Ocean County is getting ready to start work with a $290,000 state grant expected to advance the county’s ongoing efforts to address growth and development. According to Ocean County Freeholder Gerry P. Little, who serves as liaison to the county planning department, in…
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Howell man sentenced to 90 days in loan scam
BY DICK METZGARStaff Writer Howell man sentenced to 90 days in loan scam BY DICK METZGAR Staff Writer HOWELL — A township resident who was indicted on multiple counts of bank loan fraud has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for third-degree theft and ordered to pay restitution of $76,000, according to Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor…
