Category: Tri-Town News

  • Budget due to be introduced

    JACKSON — The Township Council is expected to introduce the 2009 municipal budget at its meeting on May 26. Mayor Michael Reina presented the budget that was developed by the administration to the council on May 12. Budget workshop meetings that will be open to the public have been scheduled for 10 a.m. May 30…

  • Planners deny proposal for Grawtown Rd. homes

    JACKSON — Planning Board members have voted 8-1 to deny a court remand application, RG-2 Associates, primarily on two issues: a developer’s agreement and because board members said the applicant did not satisfy the submission requirements of a General Development Plan (GDP). According to the GDP, 193 homes are proposed on Grawtown Road across from…

  • Committee applies for $10,000 grant

    PLUMSTED — Last year Plumsted became the first municipality in Ocean County to establish a Green Committee, and this month the panel has applied for a $10,000 Sustainable Jersey Grant, funded by Wal- Mart. Plumsted’s Green Technology Advisory Committee (GTAC) intends to use the grant funds to improve the energy efficiency of all township buildings,…

  • Senior Outreach Search connects locals

    PLUMSTED — The Plumsted Township Senior Outreach Search recently held a concert at its new location in the municipal building. Pupils from the New Egypt Middle School Band, under the direction of Joseph Marlow, performed for senior citizens on April 24. The Senior Outreach Search provides trips, luncheons, socials, information and special events for area…

  • Physicist will speak at library

    It is not every day that a major motion picture places particle physics in the spotlight. “Angels and Demons,” an action-packed thriller based on Dan Brown’s best-selling novel of the same name, will open in local theaters May 15. The following day, May 16 at 2 p.m., Boris Kayser, distinguished scientist at Fermilab, the nation’s…

  • Civil Air Patrol earns honors

    LAKEWOOD — New Jersey Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Wing Commander Col. Robert McCabe flew from South Jersey Regional Airport into Lakewood Airport on April 23 to personally present special awards to the cadets and commander of the Pineland Composite Squadron, a 70-member unit based at the airport. McCabe made it a point to visit the…

  • Lakehurst naval base earns environmental quality award

    An environmental quality award has been presented to Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst by the federal Environmental Protection Agency in conjunction with its recent Earth Day project. NAES Lakehurst is part of the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst military installation, parts of which are bordered by Jackson and Plumsted in Ocean County. EPA acting Regional Administrator George…

  • Robber makes off with $4K

    BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer HOWELL — Police are still searching for the robber who walked out of a branch of PNC Bank with $4,000 on May 6. According to Howell police Capt. Donna Craton, police received a call at 11:05 a.m. about a bank robbery at the PNC Bank at the corner of…

  • Plans for medical building discussed

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — The Planning Board will continue its review of a proposed medical office building at an upcoming meeting. An application for a medical office building, Robert Lambrou-Advanced Spine Care, on Bennetts Mills Road, 220 feet west of Patton Street, was discussed at the April 20 meeting of the board.…