Category: Tri-Town News

  • Suspects sought in robbery

    By dick metzgarStaff Writer By dick metzgar Staff Writer JACKSON — Police are searching for two men and a woman in connection with an armed robbery that occurred at 4 p.m. Oct. 22 at West Connecticut Concourse and Aldrich Road, authorities said. The suspects accosted the occupants of two cars as the victims parked their…

  • Revitalized octogenarian still going strong

    Strand Theater biddingto regain prominentposition in Lakewood By Joyce BlayStaff Writer Strand Theater bidding to regain prominent position in Lakewood By Joyce Blay Staff Writer The Strand Theater in Lakewood has seen its fortunes rise and fall over the course of 80 years. Those fortunes were way up recently when singer Dionne Warwick entertained fans…

  • Ruling awaited on tigers’ move

    By kathy barattaStaff Writer By kathy baratta Staff Writer State Superior Court Judge Eugene Serpentelli, sitting in Toms River, last week denied a motion filed by an attorney representing Joan Byron-Marasek to reopen the matter of relocating her tigers. Byron-Marasek is the owner-operator of the Tigers Only Preservation Society (TOPS), a 12-acre compound on Route…

  • Fountains applicant drops total units from 348 to 304

    Details of proposedapartment complexin Howell emerge By kathy barattaStaff Writer Fountains applicant drops total units from 348 to 304 Details of proposed apartment complex in Howell emerge By kathy baratta Staff Writer MGD Holdings was back before the Howell Planning Board on Oct. 24 with revised plans for The Fountains apartment complex. MGD Holdings is…

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    VERONICA YANKOWSKI Colleen Lestician, 6, of New Egypt, Plumsted Township, is excited about picking a pumpkin during a trip to Westhaven Farm, Upper Freehold, on Oct. 25.

  • District ordered to move bilingual classes into school

    Lakewood boardmay seek to delaycounty supt. By joyce blayStaff Writer Lakewood board may seek to delay county supt.’s order By joyce blay Staff Writer Ocean County Superinten-dent of Schools Bruce Greenfield confirmed that he has ordered the bilingual program at the Ella G. Clarke Elementary School in Lakewood to be moved from trailers on the…

  • Two Dems want to continue working on Howell progress

    By kathy barattaStaff Writer Two Dems want to continue working on Howell progress By kathy baratta Staff Writer HOWELL — Democratic incumbents George Pettignano and Kimberly Alvarez are running for their second four-year terms on the Township Council. They are running with Joseph Deckhut. On Nov. 5 the incumbents will face a challenge from the…

  • Field of 5 in bid for 2 seats on Jackson governing body

    By Joyce BlayStaff Writer Field of 5 in bid for 2 seats on Jackson governing body By Joyce Blay Staff Writer JACKSON — Five candidates are seeking election to two seats on the Township Committee in the Nov. 5 election. Two Democrats are running for re-election to three-year terms, along with two Repub-licans and one…

  • Board member quits panel

    The vacancy sign is out at the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education. Citing a tendency on the part of his fellow board members to spend too much time discussing what he called mundane items and not enough time talking about education, Colin Miller of Farmingdale resigned from the panel on Oct. 14.…