Category: Tri-Town News

  • Former housing inspector pleads guilty in U.S. court

    Jeffrey Williamson, a former Lakewood housing inspector who was a state Assembly candidate in 2007, pleaded guilty on Jan. 28 to charges of extortion under color of official right and subscribing to false tax returns, admitting he accepted a total of approximately $17,500 in corrupt cash payments from a cooperating witness in return for exercising…

  • FRHSD introduces $187M spending plan

    Administrators wait to see how much state aid will be provided in 2010-11 BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Without hard and fast numbers from the governor as to the level of aid that will be delivered from Trenton for the coming school year, the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education has introduced a…

  • Planners oppose state bills

    JACKSON — Members of the Jackson Planning Board voted recently to oppose proposed state legislation (S-82/A-437) that would amend the time of decision rule. The resolution approved by the board in opposition to the legislation states that the bills are intended to modify the time of decision rule, which currently allows municipal officials to change…

  • Crew returns from task in Haiti

    Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing were recently welcomed home after supporting humanitarian relief operations in Haiti. The group of 120 airmen, who are based at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in central New Jersey, were responsible for opening and operating the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-Au- Prince, Haiti, in the weeks after a devastating…

  • Sections of roads to be resurfaced

    Ocean County will reconstruct and resurface portions of several area roads this spring. “The spring is our busy season when it comes to road improvements,” said Freeholder Deputy Director John P. Kelly, liaison to the Ocean County Engineer’s Office. “As soon as the weather clears, our crews and contractors will be out there ensuring that…

  • Seven seek seats on Jackson board

    JACKSON — Seven residents are running for two available three-year terms on the Jackson School District Board of Education. The annual school election will be held on April 20. Polls will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The terms on the board that are currently held by Sharon Dey and Linda Lackay are…

  • Council to discuss future of complex

    Mayor: Pouring millions into century-old buildings would not be cost-effective BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Don’t even think about asking Howell Mayor Robert F. Walsh for a peek at the basement in Town Hall. Howell Mayor Robert Walsh looks at mold that is growing on the overhang of the entrance to the Howell engineering…

  • Sides play hardball over softball upgrades

    Jackson council and mayor cannot get together on planned field improvements BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Jackson Township Councilman Ken Bressi and Township Council President Mike Kafton are charging Mayor Mike Reina with undermining planned improvements for a girls softball facility. Reina called the charges politically motivated. Jackson is gearing up for its nonpartisan municipal…

  • Howell PAL tapped to run kindergarten ‘wrap-around’

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer HOWELL — Administrators in the Howell K-8 School District have given the nonprofit Howell Police Athletic League (PAL) the go-ahead to begin a kindergarten wrap-around program this fall. “I would like to work with the Howell PAL to make it happen,” Superintendent of Schools Enid Golden told the Board…