Category: Tri-Town News
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Zoners open application for 31-home development
Residents object to planthat seeks reductionin required lot size BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Zoners open application for 31-home development Residents object to plan that seeks reduction in required lot size BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer LAKEWOOD — Testimony began Jan. 5 before the Zoning Board of Adjust-ment on an application by Chestnut Street Partners, LLC…
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Board chairman suggests revisions to zoning codes
BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Board chairman suggests revisions to zoning codes BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer HOWELL — The chairman of the Zoning Board of Adjustment has presented the governing body with some requests for ordinance development and revision. Addressing the council at its Jan. 13 meeting, zoning board Chairman Augus-tine Anfuso first told Mayor…
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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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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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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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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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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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Councilman: Water users may see rate hike
Testing under wayin well that hadcontamination BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer Councilman: Water users may see rate hike Testing under way in well that had contamination BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer Customers in the Ramtown (southern) section of Howell who are served by the Parkway Water Company should expect their water rates to rise in the…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Sam Gavan offers words of advice to his players on the Gavan Contracting team, which was one of the youth basketball squads in action Saturday on the court at the Lakewood Middle School.
