Category: Tri-Town News

  • Costanzo, Fowler join town’s planning board

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — The Planning Board welcomed two new members when it held its annual reorganization meeting on July 13. Following their appointment by Mayor Michael Reina, Stephen Costanzo and Gene Fowler joined the board. They are joined on the panel by Daniel Burke, Joseph Riccardi, Township Councilman Howard Tilis, Robert…

  • Officials to keep pressing for redesign of area road

    Relative of woman killed in recent accident blasts circumstances of crash BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer The mother-in-law of a woman who was killed last month in a head-on collision on Sharon Station Road in Upper Freehold Township described her daughter-in-law’s fatal injuries to the Township Committee at its July 9 meeting. Debbie Van Pelt,…

  • Players take pride in local cleanup

    Group of Howell athletes collects 1,000 pounds of trash BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer The Howell Township Clean Communities program enlisted the help of more than 30 local lacrosse players to tidy up a water retention basin that had become littered with everything from beer bottles to bicycles. Spencer Verdoni, 10, of Howell, carries a…

  • Kafton, for mayor, and Tilis, for council, announce candidacy in Jackson

    Kafton, for mayor, and Tilis, for council, announce candidacy in Jackson JACKSON — Township Council President Mike Kafton and Township Councilman Howard Tilis have announced their candidacy for mayor and councilman, respectively. Because of resignations and appointments that occurred in Jackson’s local government within the past year, residents will go to the polls in November…

  • Wounded veterans to be saluted

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Residents in Jackson will have a chance to show their support for wounded veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jackson’s Wounded Warrior event will take place at 9 a.m. Aug. 8. The veterans will be assembling at the Jackson Justice Complex and then be driven to the Central…

  • Freehold rocker coming to fair

    No, it’s not Springsteen, but a very special tribute at Monmouth fair BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Amusician who was raised in Freehold will be coming home to perform the music of Freehold’s own rock icon and native son. Freehold native Josh Schreiber (above) will bring his performance of “Springsteen – The Premier Tribute”…

  • Brick woman becomes 2nd in Ocean to die of swine flu

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BRICK TOWNSHIP — A middle-aged Brick Township woman died of swine flu recently, becoming the second Ocean County resident to die of the virus. The woman had “extensive” underlying medical problems, Ocean County Health Department spokesperson Leslie Terjesen said. The health department does not release the name or medical…

  • Environmentalist still looking for challenges

    Blanche Krubner has enjoyed a varied career BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Blanche Krubner JACKSON — At 80 years of age, she is still a dynamo with the power of a battery that keeps going and going and going. Blanche Krubner remains an environmentalist who has worked, and still endeavors, to protect the natural world…

  • Residents may sign up for ‘We Care’ program

    PLUMSTED — Whether it is hurricane season or a snow and ice storm in the winter, for anyone who may need special assistance in an emergency, Plumsted’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is implementing the “We Care” program in conjunction with the Ocean County OEM. To be enrolled in the “We Care” program, residents should…