Category: Tri-Town News

  • Compulite of Lakewood to get $25K micro loan

    Compulite of Lakewood to get $25K micro loan LAKEWOOD — Mayor Marta Harrison recently announced that a $25,000 micro loan has been awarded to Compulite, a company designed to train senior citizens in Ocean and Monmouth counties to use computers in their own environment rather than attending classes at a school or library where the…

  • Clyde Beatty Circus brings big top to town

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Great-er Freehold Area Pop Warner is sponsoring a visit from the Clyde Beatty–Cole Bros. Circus Aug. 15-17. Performances will be at 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. each day at Freehold Raceway Mall, Route 9. Billed as "The World’s Largest Circus Under the Big Top," the tent will be raised on Aug. 15…

  • Friends recall Lakatos

    Staff Writer By clare m. masi JACKSON — Friends of Pat Lakatos said she spent her life serving the community she loved so very much. Lakatos, 61, a retired township employee, died suddenly on July 18 and, according to friends who were shocked and saddened by her loss, her presence will be missed. Lakatos spent…

  • In Lakewood, there is such a thing as a free lunch Kitchen crew gets

    In Lakewood, there is such a thing as a free lunch Kitchen crew gets Sarah McColgan Margaret Herbert packs a cooler with some of the hundreds of sandwiches made daily by the Lakewood Recreation Department for the Community School’s youth summer camp. busy at 7 a.m. making 1,200 lunches each day By CLAre M. Masi…

  • Board seeking help to sell referendum Howell district hopes

    Board seeking help to sell referendum Howell district hopes to build two schools; vote slated for Dec. 11 By CLAre M. Masi Staff Writer HOWELL — The Board of Education wants help from the community in passing a construction referendum scheduled for Dec. 11. Members of the board’s community relations and facilities committees met on…

  • Summer gala to benefit Monmouth County SPCA

    The Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will hold its annual summer gala at the Deal Golf and Country Club on Aug. 19. Festivities kick off with cocktails at 5 p.m., followed by a buffet dinner. The auction committee has added both silent and live auctions this year. Benefit chairperson is…

  • Farmer says future could depend on zoning decision

    Staff Writer By clare m. masi JERRY WOLKOWITZ Don, Kathy and Alan Patterson (l-r) place plants out for sale on their Howell farm. Farmers and landowners say a proposed rezoning ordinance could negatively affect the equity in their property. The proposal would reduce the number of homes that could be built in certain areas of…

  • Firm assessing park site

    Staff Writer By clare m. masi JACKSON — Plans to improve recreational facilities in town are moving forward, beginning with Johnson Park on Kierych Drive. Township Committee members passed a resolution on July 23 contracting JCA Associates, Moorestown, to perform an environmental investigation on the park grounds. According to Mayor Joseph Grisanti, JCA Associates will…

  • Police: Race night a winner with exception of 1 arrest Crowd of 10,000 moved through area with no accidents

    Staff Writer By Mark Rosman Police: Race night a winner with exception of 1 arrest Crowd of 10,000 moved through area with no accidents PLUMSTED — Police are calling the logistics and handling of an event which drew a crowd of 10,000 race fans to New Egypt Speedway on July 30 a success. Plumsted Public…