Category: Tri-Town News

  • Christmas show to raise funds for food pantry and veterans

    The Company of Music, Theatre and Dance and its performance workshop youth ensemble will bring a taste of Broadway to the Jersey Shore with its “Christmas and New Year’s Spectacular,” created and directed by Alison Gertner Mann, to be performed Dec. 18 and 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Millstone Performing Arts Center, Dawson Court,…

  • Test results show progress for FRHSD

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Students showed enough improvement on standardized tests to lift the Freehold Regional High School District out of a classification as a district in need of improvement. The designation is part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act that measures adequate yearly progress (AYP) made by students. FRHSD spokesman James…

  • Sex crime prevention seminar gives parents, teenagers vital information

    COLTS NECK — Know the people your children spend time with. Listen to your children; pay attention if they do not want to be with someone, or if there is a subtle change in your child’s behavior. Monitor their Internet use, and educate yourself about cell phones, gaming consoles and other avenues to use the…

  • Uncertainty surrounds next FRHSD budget

    Pay-to-participate option is on the table as officials start work on spending plan BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer With certain information unknown, it is not easy to predict what the financial situation will be for the 2011-12 Freehold Regional High School District budget, but administrators are starting to look at ways to save money. The…

  • Farmers may apply for aid in wake of heat and drought

    United States Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack has designated 16 New Jersey counties as natural disaster areas to assist farmers who suffered losses due to excessive heat and drought during the 2010 growing season. Farmers in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Salem, Somerset, Sussex and Warren counties…

  • Freehold pupils link up with Ugandan youths

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Sylvia Allen, the founder of a nonprofit organization that provides children in Uganda, Africa, with services and necessities, recently put into place a program that now connects Ugandan youngsters with children in Freehold Township. The children are writing to each other as pen-pals. Recently, Freehold Township…

  • Groups praise firm’s decision to close Oyster Creek facility

    Clean Water Action and its Garden State chapter, the New Jersey Environmental Federation, together with other local groups, applauded last week’s announcement that the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey Township will close in nine years. “Getting Exelon [the plant’s owner] to take Oyster Creek offline in nine years is validation that this plant should…

  • Kindergarten registration set for March

    JACKSON — Parents are advised that forms that must be completed before a child may be registered for kindergarten will be available in all Jackson elementary schools during regular school hours beginning Feb. 22. To be eligible for kindergarten registration, children must be 5 years old on or before Oct. 1, 2011, and in accordance…

  • Pinelands Commission taps Toms River woman for post

    The New Jersey Pinelands Commission has appointed Nancy B. Wittenberg of Toms River as the agency’s new executive director. According to a press release from the commission, Wittenberg has served as the Assistant Commissioner of Climate and Environmental Compliance for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) since May 2006. She will officially begin…