Category: Tri-Town News
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Grants to aid Ocean towns
Improvements to public facilities, housing rehabilitation, public services and a host of other activities throughout Ocean County will be funded under this year’s Community Development Block Grant program. As administrator of the funds, the Ocean County Board of Freeholders gave informal approval to 21 municipal projects and 11 public service and regional nonprofit projects that…
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Spirited debate precedes adoption of 2003 budget
By Joyce BlayStaff Writer Spirited debate precedes adoption of 2003 budget By Joyce Blay Staff Writer JACKSON — The Township Committee on Monday adopted its 2003 municipal budget as proposed. After three straight years of cutting the municipal tax rate, the budget the committee released on April 7 featured a tax rate holding stable at…
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Vets receive service medals
Several local residents received Vietnam Service Medals at an awards ceremony held May 7 at the New Jersey Vietnam Veteran’ Memorial in Holmdel. Approved by the state Legislature in 2000, the medal commemorates the 25th anniversary of the ending of the Vietnam war in January 1973. The ceremony was part of the New Jersey Vietnam…
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Special needs parents group will meet tonight in Jackson
Special needs parents group will meet tonight in Jackson JACKSON — Tonight’s meeting of the school district’s Special Needs Parents Group will feature a speaker who will address family issues that arise from having a special needs child. The session is scheduled for 7-9 p.m. tonight in the media center of the Craw-ford-Rodriguez Elementary School,…
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Plan for full-day kindergarten falls to Plumsted budget cut
By kathy barattaStaff Writer Plan for full-day kindergarten falls to Plumsted budget cut By kathy baratta Staff Writer PLUMSTED — A plan to go to full-day kindergarten has been put on the shelf under a school budget cutting move recommended by the Township Committee. After the Board of Education’s $16 million budget for the 2003-04…
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Decision could clear way for tigers’ move
By kathy barattaStaff Writer Decision could clear way for tigers’ move By kathy baratta Staff Writer JACKSON — The tigers may be on their way to Texas. In the latest of his decisions regarding the disposition of the so-called "Tiger Lady" case, state Superior Court Judge Eugene Serpentelli, sitting in Toms River, has ruled that…
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Hanlon, Acevedo to lead
Jackson school board By joyce blayStaff Writer By joyce blay Staff Writer Following the defeat of all four incumbents running for re-election to the Jackson Board of Education, a new majority on the panel elected Michael Hanlon its president and Gus Acevedo its vice president at the reorganization meeting held on April 28. One of…
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VERONICA YANKOWSKI Charlie Polhemus, 6, of Jackson, has a good time as he jousts with his dad during the seventh annual Monmouth Celtic Festival Saturday in Freehold Township.
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Fountains now has apartments, condos
Howell plannersreopen application By kathy barattaStaff Writer Fountains now has apartments, condos Howell planners reopen application By kathy baratta Staff Writer What’s old was new again when Howell Planning Board members sat down to the first in a new series of public hearings for The Fountains, a housing application that now seeks to construct a…
