Category: Tri-Town News

  • Diaz-White marks 25 years with Monmouth nonprofit

    It is hard to imagine 180 Turning Lives Around Inc., the private Monmouth County nonprofit organization dedicated to ending domestic violence and sexual violence, without thinking of Anna Diaz- White. Anna Diaz-White Diaz-White, the organization’s executive director, was recently recognized at 180’s annual dinner for her 25 years of service. During her tenure, Diaz-White has…

  • Info officers recognized nationally

    The Monmouth County Department of Public Information is the recipient of two national awards from the National Association of County Information Officers (NACIO), an arm of the National Association of Counties (NACo). In addition, public information officer Laura Kirkpatrick has been elected to serve on the board of the National Association of Government Communicators. “This…

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    Steve Zboray of Jackson is ready to rock and roll as he drives his 1957 Mercury into South River at the start of a cruise night event in the Middlesex County community on Aug. 20.

  • Cops warn drivers not to pass buses

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer When school opens for the new year in September, Jackson police officers will be issuing summonses to drivers who illegally pass a stopped school bus. That is a word of warning to motorists who choose to ignore the law or who are not paying attention to what is happening in…

  • Parent hails NJ autism coverage law

    Gov. Corzine signs bill requiring insurance payments BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer New Jersey residents who have children with autism and who must pay a significant amount of money for the cost of therapy will remember Aug. 13, 2009, for a long time. Jackson resident Sharon Dey expressed her satisfaction with a bill that has…

  • A dream 62 years in the making for husband and wife

    John and Florence Smatusik remarry in Catholic ceremony in front of family and friends BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer They met when they were 12 on his father’s farm on Frank Applegate Road in Jackson. Florence and John Smatusik, both 82, listen to the priest who remarried them in a Catholic ceremony held on…

  • Mayor proud of town’s salute to U.S. veterans

    JACKSON — Residents turned out on Aug. 8 to salute American veterans who did their duty and more in the service of their nation. Jackson held its first Wounded Warrior parade that day as a way of saying thanks to those who answered the call of duty. Following the parade along West Veterans Highway and…

  • Health officials gear up for H1N1 challenges

    For two days last week, New Jersey health officials convened to continue New Jersey’s preparedness efforts in planning for H1N1 (swine flu) influenza. In July, a summit was held over two days to address the essentials of New Jersey’s response to H1N1 influenza: surveillance, community mitigation, vaccination planning and communications. Those four key areas continued…

  • $89K grant paves 8 streets

    PLUMSTED — Eight streets in the New Egypt section of Plumsted are being repaved and drainage improvements are being made with $89,000 in grant funds obtained by the Township Committee from the state and federal governments’ Transportation Trust Fund. Weather permitting, the street paving project was scheduled to begin the week of Aug. 24 and…