Category: Tri-Town News
-

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…
-

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…
-

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…
-

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…
-

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…
-

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…
-

Officials renew call for ‘polluter pays’ tax
Superfund was created by Congress in 1980 to clean nation’s toxic sites BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Flanked by Marlboro Mayor Jonathan Hornik and state Sen. Jennifer Beck, former New Jersey Gov. James Florio discuss the need for the renewal of the “polluter pays” Superfund. REBECCA MORTON MARLBORO — It has been 30 years since…
-

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…
-

School supports Wounded Warrior Project
PLUMSTED — The students and staff of the Dr. Gerald H. Woehr Elementary School have joined together to turn words into actions, raising more than $500 for the Wounded Warrior Project during the school’s Spirit Week. School guidance counselor Alyse Reed and Nancy Forbes, a special education teacher, encouraged the students to save their change…
