Category: Tri-Town News
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Pair puts new twist on Hanukkah story
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer The Kvetch is coming to Oyville and is spreading his disdain over the happy holiday of Hanukkah. But the Oyvillites know a way to dispel the gloom. Susan Isakoff Berlin and her husband, Bill Berlin, are the authors of a new children’s book, “The Kvetch Who Stole Hanukkah.” DAVE…
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Checklist answers may cost Jackson state funds
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — A municipal official believes Jackson will lose about $33,000 in state aid this year following the township’s submission of the Local Government Best Practices checklist. Municipalities throughout New Jersey were recently provided with the checklist and were required to fill it out and submit it to the state…
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Board member: Facebook could help during budget prep
BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Howell Board of Education member Timothy O’Brien is pushing for the Howell K-8 School District to get its own Facebook page up and running before next year’s budget vote. “We need to address the fact that we failed at 13 out of 15 budgets,” O’Brien said at a recent…
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New recovery well pumps tritium from groundwater
The pumping of radioactive tritium from the aquifers beneath the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey Township, Ocean County, has been expanded to a third and larger well that was specially created to provide access to more groundwater and increase pumping capacity, state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Bob Martin announced in a…
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New Egypt Football Action
New Egypt High School running back Jamel Smith (11) tries to fend off the tackle of Allentown High School’s Kevin Mackiewicz during the first quarter of the Warriors’ Oct. 15 game in Allentown. New Egypt won, 19-0. For more photos, see www.gmnews.com. ERIC SUCAR staff
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Residents warned to keep cars locked
HOWELL — Police are warning Howell residents to keep their cars locked, following an unusually high number of car burglaries that have occurred over the past four months. “The majority of burglaries occurred to vehicles which were left unlocked by the owners,” Howell police Capt. Donna Craton said in a prepared release. Previous arrests of…
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Legler out as composting site
BY DAVE BENJAMIN BY DAVE Staff Writer Jackson Township Council members have killed a plan that would have seen a municipal composting facility created in the Legler section of Jackson. The council made its decision on Oct. 12, several weeks after the issue was discussed by members of the public during a council meeting. At…
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Wounded vets to be saluted
JACKSON — For the second year in a row, the Central Jersey Rifle and Pistol Club, Stump Tavern Road, will host a Wounded Warrior event on Oct. 23. Mayor Mike Reina said, “Starting at approximately 9 a.m., wounded veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with veterans from Vietnam, Korea and World War…
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The adventure of a lifetime
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Greg Olsen experiences weightlessness on his 2005 flight into space. Olsen paid $20 million to fly aboard a Soviet rocket as a private citizen. PHOTO COURTESY OF GREG OLSEN Greg Olsen tells Jackson youths about his trip to International Space Station Propelled into space some 230 miles straight up, the…
