Category: Tri-Town News

Conservation district seeks grant applicants The Ocean County Soil Conservation District will award up to four $500 grants in 2004 to teachers and schools to develop outdoor classrooms. To date, 30 grants totaling $15,500 have been awarded by the county conservation district. Outdoor classrooms offer a realistic way for students to learn how the subjects…

Lakewood residentsstate their case forchanges in town BY JOYCE BLAYStaff Writer Lakewood residents state their case for changes in town BY JOYCE BLAY Staff Writer VERONICA YANKOWSKI staff Marchers make their case for more affordable housing and well-paying jobs in Lakewood. Some residents say Lakewood is a community of limited housing and limited well-paying jobs.…

Committee names rec director JACKSON — The naming of the township’s new recreation director was a point of contention at Monday’s Township Committee meeting. The committee appointed Anne Alberta to the permanent position of recreation director. Alberta has served as the acting director for the past year. However, her appointment was not made without protest…

BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer Panel will assess need for Allentown bypass BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer ALLENTOWN — Mayor Stuart Fierstein and Councilwoman Margaret Armenante will serve on a Monmouth County committee that will evaluate a planned westerly bypass to alleviate downtown traffic. The bypass, which would connect Route 539 and Route 526, will allow…

Parents have a place to stay while children are in hospital FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Centra-State Medical Center and Ronald McDonald House celebrated the opening of the new Ronald McDonald House Pediatric Hospitality Suite in the hospital’s pediatric unit on Aug. 18 at the Zwerling Auditorium of CentraState Medical Center. According to a press release, the…

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 16-05 of Brick will present a six-lesson boating skills and seamanship course beginning Oct. 8 at the Brick Municipal Building, Chambers Bridge Road. The classes will be held in the recreation room on the lower level on the east side of the building. The course is one that all boat…

Crime rate is lowest in Ocean PLUMSTED — For the second time in as many years, Plumsted has the lowest crime rate in Ocean County, data from the latest New Jersey State Police Uniform Crime Report shows. In fact, the township’s crime rate of 5.2 reported incidents for each 1,000 people ranks Plumsted among the…

BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer HOWELL — The battle over the Fountains has resulted in a settlement agreement. The Fountains started almost two years ago as a Planning Board application for a 348-unit rental complex that included a 20 percent affordable housing component. The settlement is now in the "getting-all-the-signatures" stage,…

BY KATHY BARATTAStaff Writer RAID leader named to lead housing panel BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer HOWELL — A newly created Affor-dable Housing Advisory Committee will keep watch on local housing issues, especially as they relate to Howell’s affordable housing obligations, according to municipal officials. The Township Council created the committee at its Sept. 15…