Category: Tri-Town News

  • Spring break brings theme park opening

    Six Flags Great Adventure, Route 537, Jackson, will kick off the 2010 season on March 27 with its two-week-long spring break presented by Stride Gum. Opening day will launch the Stride-A-Thon as 30 riders compete to be the last rider on the seven looping, floorless coaster Bizarro in this eight-hour ride-a-thon. Through a contest hosted…

  • Nine seek board seats

    HOWELL — Nine residents have filed nominating petitions to run for three available three-year terms on the Howell K-8 School District Board of Education in the April 20 election. Incumbents Mary Cerretani and Dr. Stephen M. Levine are seeking new terms. The other candidates are John C. Hein, Suzanne M. Brennan, Jeannette Smith, James P.…

  • Clarksburg Inn in Millstone Township

    When friends and fans showed up at a demolition party for the Clarksburg Inn in Millstone Township on March 6, Ascher Lynch, 2, of Jackson, had her hard hat on and was ready to get to work. The venerable restaurant, which was a former stagecoach stop in western Monmouth County, was destroyed by fire in…

  • Smith at odds with mayor on complex

    Howell councilwoman says residents should decide if municipal offices should move BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Howell Township Councilwoman Pauline Smith thinks officials should stay put and renovate Howell’s aging municipal complex, rather than buying what she called a “white elephant” like the Global Corporate Center on Route 9 north and moving municipal operations…

  • Upgrades for softball facility OK’d

    Jackson officials approve contract for $261,000 BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer The Jackson Township Council has awarded a contract for the construction of a concession stand and restrooms at a girls softball complex on Bartley Road, Jackson. Council members voted 4-1 on March 9 to award a $261,000 contract to R.F. Simon for the upgrades.…

  • Quest for truth continues 147 years after Slocum murder

    Historical presentation revisits murder and trial BY PATRICIA YOCZIS On the night of July 14, 1863, in the town of Mechanicsville (now West Long Branch), Abigail Bob Waitt Sr. (l-r), Bob Waitt Jr., Joann Slocum Mazzucca and Arthur T. Green II pose for a portrait following a presentation on the murder of Abigail Slocum in…

  • Special event will assist local veteran

    JACKSON — The Jackson Women of Today will hold a pancake breakfast and an Easter egg hunt to support Operation One of Our Own. The breakfast, which will cost $8 for adults and $5 for children under 12, will be held at the Central Jersey Italian American Club, 36 Cpl. Luigi Marciante Jr. Memorial Drive,…

  • Plumsted to offer mobile medical unit services

    PLUMSTED — The Mobile Medical Unit of Ocean Health Initiatives (OHI), a 501(c)(3) Federally Qualified Health Center formed in 2004 with medical offices in Lakewood and Toms River, may begin establishing mobile medical service locations in Plumsted as early as April or May, according to Mayor Ron Dancer. OHI provides primary health care for the…

  • Pathfinders salute Borga

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Karen Borga JACKSON — Karen Borga, the former chairwoman of the Jackson Pathfinders, was honored at the March 9 meeting of the Jackson Township Council. According to its Internet website, the Jackson Pathfinders was started in 1999 by Ellen Repasy, who organized a group of area residents who were concerned…