Category: Tri-Town News

  • Freehold Regional seniors reach graduation day ’02

    Staff Writer By dave benjamin Freehold Regional seniors reach graduation day ’02 Students at the six high schools of the Freehold Regional High School District have been counting down the days, hours and minutes to their graduation. Tomorrow will be the day they have been waiting for all year, as graduation ceremonies are held at…

  • Couple witness incident from front porch Lakewood residents testify in trial of three police officers

    Staff Writer By Kathy Baratta Couple witness incident from front porch Lakewood residents testify in trial of three police officers TOMS RIVER — Flashing lights and a siren brought Linda and Francis Meyer III onto the front porch of their Joe Parker Road, Lakewood, home on the evening of July 6, 2001. What they might…

  • Construction official orders demolition of Regency Motel

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta Construction official orders demolition of Regency Motel HOWELL — Municipal construction official Eddie Mack is moving ahead with a formal order of demolition of the Regency Motel. The motel, a 48-room structure on Route 9 north just north of the Howell-Lakewood border, has been closed for business since August 1997.…

  • High school district unveils revised tax rate increases

    Staff Writer By dave benjamin High school district unveils revised tax rate increases A tentative schedule of tax rates for the eight sending communities in the Freehold Regional High School District has been determined. However, the rates will not become effective until the district’s 2002-03 budget is approved by the state commissioner of education. The…

  • Attorneys: Officers used proper force during stop Jury hears opening statements as case against 3 cops opens

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta Attorneys: Officers used proper force during stop Jury hears opening statements as case against 3 cops opens TOMS RIVER — Testimony began last week in the state Superior Court courtroom of Judge Edward J. Turnbach in the trial of three Lakewood police officers who are charged with official misconduct, conspiracy,…

  • Jacobs recounts police encounter Lakewood officers on trial in beating of township resident

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta Jacobs recounts police encounter Lakewood officers on trial in beating of township resident Jurors heard testimony last week from the man at the heart of a case that has three Lakewood police officers on trial on charges that could send them to jail and end their law enforcement careers. The…

  • End of the line

    Police officers from several municipalities converged on a shopping center at the corner of Route 9 and Kennedy Boulevard, Lakewood, on the morning of June 13 as they pursued a suspect in a bank robbery that had occurred in neighboring Dover Township. Above, investigators confer near the vehicle used by the suspect. At right, after…

  • Football parents peeved at practice field problems Pop Warner wants town to address current situation

    Staff Writer By cindy tietjen Football parents peeved at practice field problems Pop Warner wants town to address current situation At times, Monday’s Township Committee meeting in Jackson resembled a Pop Warner football game with adults yelling and applauding and children screaming. Only this time, even though both sides play for the home team, there…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ Firefighters pour water on a fire at Compunders Inc., Marl Road, Howell, on the afternoon of June 6. Volunteers from seven area fire companies responded to the chemical fire that destroyed a building.