Category: Tri-Town News

  • AAUW honors district’s top female graduates

    AAUW honors district’s top female graduates Freehold Regional High School District seniors honored by the Freehold branch of the American Association of University Women for their academic achievements are (l-r) Pinar Posluk, Mairead McCarthy, Rachael Gursky, Laura Little, Cheryl Goldwasser and Polly Jen. The Freehold Area Branch of the American Association of University Women recently…

  • Judge still waits for tiger owner Joan Byron-Marasek due in Toms River courtroom today

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta Judge still waits for tiger owner Joan Byron-Marasek due in Toms River courtroom today Was she or wasn’t she representing a client was a question even the attorney herself didn’t quite know the answer to. Standing before state Superior Court Judge Eugene D. Serpen-telli, sitting in Toms River on Monday,…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ Maria Giorno, 6, of Jackson holds on tight while she rides a mini roller coaster at the St. Aloysius-St. Monica summer carnival in Jackson on Saturday.

  • Council rejects property code

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta The presence of a standing-room-only crowd in the municipal meeting room persuaded the members of the Howell Township Council to reject a proposed property maintenance ordinance. Although not many people spoke to the council during the public hearing on the ordinance, the residents’ message was clear — we don’t want…

  • Planners hear requests for waivers at Fountains Number of affordable housing credits Howell would get is disputed

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta Planners hear requests for waivers at Fountains Number of affordable housing credits Howell would get is disputed HOWELL — The first substantive hearing in a proposal to construct an affordable housing apartment complex at Maxim-Southard Road and Route 9 was held July 27. Applicant MGD Holdings How, LLC, of Westfield,…

  • State levies $5,000 fine against junkyard owner

    Staff Writer By Kathy Baratta State levies $5,000 fine against junkyard owner HOWELL — A state agency has imposed a $5,000 fine against the owner of an illegal junkyard in the community. According to state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) spokeswoman Elaine Makatura, following an investigation of William Lackey’s 8-acre property on Maxim-Southard Road in…

  • Survivors share tales of hope at Relay for Life

    Correspondent By jane meggitt Survivors share tales of hope at Relay for Life FARRAH MAFFAI Diane Rickman Davis and Gen Sullivan, both of Millstone, walk the survivors’ lap at the Relay for Life held at New Egypt High School, Plumsted, on June 28. The reaction to a cancer diagnosis is almost impossible to describe. Survivors…

  • They had names like the Millstone Mountain Hillbillies, the Allen-town ReLayers and the Redbird Ramblers.

    They were teams from local businesses, clubs and first aid squads. They were survivors, those who had lost loved ones, those who just wanted to help. They were volunteers who walked and raised money for the Allentown-Upper Freehold-New Egypt Relay for Lif They had names like the Millstone Mountain Hillbillies, the Allen-town ReLayers and the…

  • Sex and the suburbs The ladies from HBO’s ‘Sex and the City’ lunch in Millstone

    Staff Writer By Alison Granito Sex and the suburbs The ladies from HBO’s ‘Sex and the City’ lunch in Millstone JERRY WOLKOWITZ Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker confers with an assistant prior to filming a scene from an upcoming episode of the HBO show on Monday at Jake’s Cree-Mee Freeze ice cream…