Category: Tri-Town News

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    CHRIS KELLY Jackson’s Jessica Fortune anchors the Jags’ shuttle hurdle relay team at the Rebel Relays at Howell High School on Saturday. The Jaguars won the competition despite the poor weather conditions.

  • Lakewood tax down a fraction

    By joyce blayStaff Writer By joyce blay Staff Writer For the seventh year in a row, the municipal tax rate in Lakewood has dropped, according to information contained in the 2003 municipal budget released by Township Manager Frank Edwards at the April 3 Township Commit-tee meeting. The municipal tax rate per $100 of assessed valuation…

  • English classes help immigrants assimilate

    Proficiency in languagehelps students get alongat jobs and in U.S. society By Joyce BlayStaff Writer Proficiency in language helps students get along VERONICA YANKOWSKI Yolanda Villasenov studies an English as a Second Language lesson during class at the Clifton Avenue Grade School, Lakewood. at jobs and in U.S. society By Joyce Blay Staff Writer LAKEWOOD…

  • Ethics board eliminated

    Ethics board eliminated HOWELL — "Demublicans" and "Republicrats" are political animals indigenous to Howell, according to former Republican Mayor Sue Vitengruber. And, says Vitengruber, it is because of the peculiar habits of these hybrid politicos that the township’s ethics board should be eliminated. And eliminated it was by a 4-1 vote of the Township Council…

  • Voter approval to be sought on $135M high school budget

    Voter approval to be sought on $135M high school budget The Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education has adopted its budget for the 2003-04 school year. Residents of the eight sending communities in the district will vote on the budget [specifically the amount in taxes to be raised in their community] in the…

  • Howell soldier falls in Iraq

    Army corporalkilled in attacknear Najaf By kathy barattaStaff Writer Army corporal killed in attack near Najaf By kathy baratta Staff Writer Cpl. Michael Curtin The war in Iraq came home to Howell on Monday with the news that township resident Army Cpl. Michael Curtin, 23, was one of four American soldiers killed on March 29…

  • Kraft, Leimbach square off in bid for Howell board seat

    Two seek to representtown on FRHSDBoard of Education By dave benjaminStaff Writer Kraft, Leimbach square off in bid for Howell board seat Two seek to represent town on FRHSD Board of Education By dave benjamin Staff Writer Two candidates are running for the right to represent Howell on the Freehold Regional High School District Board…

  • Pupils enjoy visit from K-9 cops

    JACKSON — Students and faculty of the H.C. Johnson Elementary School were recently treated to a visit by some four-legged friends from the Trenton Police Department. The canine "K-9" visit on March 13 was part of the school’s third annual "Be Kind to Animals" month. The officers had their K-9 companions demonstrate how they sniff…

  • Study of hunger goes along with McAuliffe food drive

    Study of hunger goes along with McAuliffe food drive JACKSON — During the cold winter holiday months, there can be hundreds of people donating food to pantries across the state. But while studying the reality of hunger in America and worldwide, the students at McAuliffe Middle School realize that even in warmer weather the need…