Category: Tri-Town News

  • Photographers recognized in state press association contest

    G reater Media Newspapers photographers won three awards in the New Jersey Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for 2008. Eric Sucar, Portrait, second place The newspaper group, based in Freehold, N.J., publishes 12 weeklies, serving Monmouth, Middlesex and Ocean counties. Jeff Granit and Eric Sucar were among the journalists honored at the NJPA awards banquet…

  • FAMILY FITNESS – Advertorial

    by Gloria Averbuch Advertorial FAMILY FITNESS The family that plays together, gets fit together. Working out as a unit-including everything from casual family activities to sports and exercise-is an excellent, proven vehicle for practicing healthy habits and developing social and emotional bonds. Particularly in relation to children, research has shown that the number one influence…

  • Residents seek seats on Plumsted board

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer PLUMSTED — Six residents of the township are seeking seats on the Plumsted Board of Education in the April 21 school election. The board is expanding its membership from five to seven members this year, and three three-year terms will be available on Election Day. The candidates are Joanna Barlow,…

  • Initial members named to Going Green panel

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — The going will be green now that the Going Green Committee has been selected to get going. Members of the Jackson Township Council have approved the first reading of an ordinance that creates an expanded Going Green Committee and a resolution that names the committee members. “I am…

  • Corzine: Dire times call for tough choices

    Governor defends budget as maintaining priorities BY JENNIFER AMATO and BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writers In the weeks since delivering his $29.8 billion budget proposal, Gov. Jon Corzine has faced criticism for what one New Jersey radio station has described as “the death of the middle class.” Gov. Jon Corzine Much of the backlash stems from…

  • Effort will give veterans proper military burial

    Every American veteran deserves a proper burial when the time comes. Proper burial, for a veteran, includes military honors by a uniformed honor guard. Unfortunately, the time has come and gone for more than 900 remains of previously cremated veterans from all branches of service in New Jersey. They are veterans whose remains have not…

  • Council honors musician

    DAVE BENJAMIN Jackson Liberty High School senior Paul Maier performs for the Jackson Township Council after receiving a certificate of merit from the governing body. JACKSON — It is not too often that a high school trombonist gets feature billing at a government meeting, but Jackson Liberty High School senior Paul Maier had that honor…

  • 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…