Category: Tri-Town News

  • Court waits to hear plan for tigers’ move Joan Byron-Marasek expected to testify in Superior Court this week

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta Court waits to hear plan for tigers’ move Joan Byron-Marasek expected to testify in Superior Court this week oan Byron-Marasek is expected this week to finally offer a plan for the relocation of 24 tigers from her Jackson property. Byron-Marasek, a former circus performer and big cat trainer, has kept…

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    FARRAH MAFFAI Lakewood High School’s Shakeema Martin cruises to a win in the 100-meter dash at the Shore Conference Track and Field Championships at Neptune High School on Friday. Martin won three events at the meet, while the Jackson Memorial High School girls finished first in the team competition. For more, see Sports, page 43.

  • Towns can’t agree on cuts

    Staff Writer By dave benjamin Municipal officials in the eight towns that make up the Freehold Regional High School District (FRHSD) have failed to reach a consensus on how much to cut the high school district’s defeated $126 million 2002-03 school year budget. The tax levy to support the budget was pegged at $81.58 million,…

  • Teachers educate peers on cancer awareness Demonstration stresses the importance of breast self-examinations

    Staff Writer By cindy tietjen Teachers educate peers on cancer awareness Demonstration stresses the importance of breast self-examinations Jackson school district staff members (l-r) Marsha Opalach, Anne Hayden and Roseanne Carello instruct a group of district employees on the Beads for Life, which demonstrate the size of lumps that can be associated with the discovery…

  • StreetHeart strikes a note with doowop fans

    Staff Writer By Clare Marie Celano StreetHeart strikes a note with doowop fans The members of StreetHeart have found an audience in New Jersey — and beyond the borders of the Garden State — for their a cappella brand of doowop music. Betty Semel of Manalapan walked out of a psychic reading in 1990 feeling…

  • Police, prosecutor watch for ‘hate speech’ incidents

    Staff Writer By karl vilacoba Police, prosecutor watch for ‘hate speech’ incidents FREEHOLD — Law enforcement agencies in western Monmouth County are now monitoring neo-Nazi literature that has been spread about the area. During a May 16 press conference at the office of the Monmouth County Prosecutor John Kaye, Charles "Shai" Goldstein, regional director of…

  • Ordinance expected to tighten local codes

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta Ordinance expected to tighten local codes With an eye toward "beefing up code enforcement," the Howell Township Council is expected to introduce an ordinance that will update municipal codes already on the books. Howell Construction Official Eddie Mack told a Greater Media Newspapers reporter the proposed ordinance has been developed…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ Lakewood High School’s Edmond Looney connects for a base hit against Bayonne in the bottom of the sixth inning to drive in the Piners’ fifth run in a 5-2 victory over the Bees Saturday at Lakewood High School.

  • Officials prepare to pare budget

    Staff Writer By kathy baratta Members of the Howell Township Council will be turning their attention this week to the K-8 school budget that was defeated by voters in April. The Board of Education’s proposed 2002-03 school year budget totaled $82 million and carried a local tax levy of $47.5 million. The spending package would…