Category: Tri-Town News

  • Military, towns trying to work out concerns

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Ayearlong joint land-use study that deals with compatible use of land surrounding Joint Base McGuire- Dix-Lakehurst has been completed. The U.S. Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment and the freeholder boards of Ocean and Burlington counties sponsored the study to encourage collaborative planning among the municipalities and the military…

  • Council increases number of homes on Route 9 site

    Residents’ attorney says officials were ‘selling out’ neighboring homeowners BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer HOWELL — Over the objection of some residents, the members of the Township Council have adopted an ordinance that will permit the construction of more homes than initially approved to be built on the former site of the Cutler-Rubenstein egg farm,…

  • Information session set for 2009 Relay For Life

    It is not too late to join the 2009 American Cancer Society Relay For Life of the New Egypt area. According to a press release, Relay For Life is a fun-filled overnight event that celebrates the lives of people who are surviving cancer and remembers the lives of loved ones lost to the disease. It…

  • Novel addresses problems in pharmaceutical industry

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Dr. Michael Rushnak was visited by a drug company representative in 1979. Dr. Michael Rushnak The marketing salesperson, who did not have a clinical medical background, was trying to market the new drug Selacryn, which at the time was advertised to be the best blood pressure pill ever. Rushnak, a…

  • NRC vote guarantees Oyster Creek license renewal

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer   The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given the oldest nuclear plant in the country another 20 years of life. Commission members voted 3-1 at the NRC headquarters in Rockville, Md., on April 1 to dismiss a contention filed by a coalition of citizens and environmental groups that oppose…

  • Plan calls for Southard pupils to attend Aldrich

    Final decision could depend on Howell budget’s passage BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Concerned residents were put at ease when the Howell Board of Education’s Facilities Committee introduced a tentative redistricting plan at its April 6 meeting. The plan suggests moving all of the general education students who would have attended the Southard School next…

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    FRANK GALIPO Billy Collins, a former United States Poet Laureate, presents some of his work during an appearance at Georgian Court University, Lakewood, on March 31. The event was hosted by the university’s Department of English, Communications and Writing. For more on Collins, see page 21.

  • Pending law irks Jackson

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer The Jackson Township Council has voiced its opposition to a pair of bills awaiting the signature of Gov. Jon Corzine. A resolution recently passed by the council asks the governor not to sign S-2577 and A-3772. The legislation would permit approved age-restricted developments — without further approval by the municipality…

  • NRC vote guarantees Oyster Creek license renewal

    Nuclear plant’s foes weighing their options BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given the oldest nuclear plant in the country another 20 years of life. PLANT PHOTO PROVIDED BY EXELON The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station seen here off Route 9 south in Lacey Township will run until 2029,…