Category: Tri-Town News

  • Jackson Memorial High School baseball players

    Jackson Memorial High School baseball players cheer for their teammate James Volpe (1) as he crosses home plate during a scrimmage between the Jaguars and the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School Bulldogs on March 25 in Rumson. The 2010 high school baseball season opens today, April 1. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Gotto wants more info on potential town move

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer HOWELL — Township Council members will take at least another month before deciding whether to keep Howell’s government offices in the municipal complex on Preventorium Road or move the town’s operations to the Global Corporate Center on Route 9. Councilman William Gotto said he wants numbers on how much…

  • Foundation will honor 4 at gala

    Kimball Medical Center Foundation’s annual gala, themed after the Fox television series “House,” will be held 6-10 p.m. May 1 at the Crystal Point Yacht Club, Point Pleasant. This year, four area residents will be honored as outstanding humanitarians who provide extraordinary leadership to Kimball Medical Center. Dr. Paul Kate of Brick Township, a board-certified…

  • Residents to have say on school tax levy

    Jackson board proposes $135M budget for 2010-11 BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Staff and programs in the Jackson School District took what Board of Education Vice President Sharon Dey called “a global hit” last week. The board on March 23 introduced a budget for the 2010-11 school year that totals $135,929,266. A public hearing on…

  • Howell board tackles budget cuts

    Residents will vote on $66.2M tax levy in April 20 election BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Howell Board of Education member Patrick Dowling’s 10-year-old son had a message for him before Dowling left for a March 24 board meeting. “He said, ‘Daddy, do what you have to do and tell these people to save…

  • Emotions come to fore at budget meeting

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Residents packed the cafetorium at Howell Middle School North on March 24 to find out how the Howell K-8 School District Board of Education was planning to trim the 2010-11 school year budget. PATRICIA A. MILLER HOWELL — Longtime Howell K-8 School District Board of Education member Patricia Blood’s…

  • Upgrades planned at JTMUA

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — Improvements will be made at the Manhattan Street headquarters of the Jackson Township Municipal Utilities Authority (JTMUA). Representatives of the water authority appeared at the March 15 meeting of the Jackson Planning Board to outline the improvements. The board granted a courtesy approval to the municipal agency. The…

  • Metro PCS antennas to be added at 2 sites

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — Two applications that were submitted by Metro PCS, N.Y., LLC received Planning Board approval on March 15. Both applications proposed the addition of antennas on existing communications towers in Jackson. The first Metro PCS application called for six antennas to be placed on an existing monopole at 735…

  • Gym’s anniversary events help Brennan foundation

    JACKSON — Supergym of Jackson, a full-service health club at the corner of County Line and New Prospect roads, has announced that all of the activities for its anniversary party on March 27 will benefit the Brennan Stands Alone Foundation. The Brennan Stands Alone Foundation is organized to assist current and former members of the…