Category: Tri-Town News

  • Former clerk-typist sentenced to 7 years in prison for thefts

    Housing department’s cash management plan tightened up, township manager says BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer HOWELL — The lawyer representing a former township employee who was recently sentenced to seven years in state prison said he plans to appeal the sentence. Travis J. Tormey said state Superior Court Judge Francis J. Vernoia’s stipulation that…

  • in the service •••

    Army Spec. Ricardo L. Castillo, son of Ricardo Castillo of Lakewood and Robin Yates of Rockledge, Fla., has returned to Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, after being deployed to Afghanistan for one year. The soldier is one of 3,500 members of the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team 25th Infantry Division, stationed at Fort Richardson. The airborne…

  • Naming of administrator pulled from council agenda

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — A resolution that would have appointed a new business administrator for Jackson was pulled from the Township Council’s Aug. 10 agenda on the morning of the meeting. The naming of a replacement for the previous administrator, Phil Del Turco, is now expected to take place on Aug. 24.…

  • Questions still unanswered in June state trooper death

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer HOWELL — More than two months after New Jersey State Police Trooper Marc K. Castellano was struck down by a motor vehicle on Interstate 195 during a police search, authorities are still not ready to release the details of the accident that took his life.Police have charged Robert Swan,…

  • Motorcycle ride to raise funds for squad’s new ambulance

    BY MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent HOWELL — The Howell Township First Aid and Rescue Squad No. 1 will host its first Bike Run fundraiser on Aug. 14. Motorcycle riders and their passengers should arrive at the squad’s headquarters at 16 Kent Road to register between 8 and 10 a.m. The 52-mile motorcycle ride will begin at…

  • Schoolhouse offers glimpse of the past

    Ardena Public School No. 2 stands as a reminder of era before consolidation BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Even as far back as 1939, school consolidation was a dirty word. Parents in Howell wanted nothing to do with consolidation, and many were not happy when the one-room schoolhouses that were scattered throughout various sections…

  • Public’s help sought in identifying man who robbed Howell bank

    Law enforcement authorities are asking the public to help identify a man who robbed the TD Bank at 4280 Route 9 south, Howell, on the morning of Aug. 6. HOWELL — The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying and locating the individual who committed a bank robbery in Howell on…

  • August: Sensory refill

    “My green thumb comes only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.” H. Ale Emerging from a rather difficult gardening month, I want to have plants that laugh at the heat. Thumbing through glossy garden magazines, I have come across plants that appear…

  • Soccer event aids Castellano family

    BY MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent Jerry Mecca (l) and Jamie Nelson go after the ball during a soccer tournament held in Jackson for the benefit of the family of New Jersey State Police Trooper Marc Castellano. ERIC SUCAR staff JACKSON — A group of local soccer players braved temperatures in the 90s recently to play the…