Category: Tri-Town News
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Couple committed to finding answers
Toddler doing well two years after heart transplant BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer Just two years ago, Christopher Ennis of Howell was an infant recovering from a fetal cardiac intervention procedure that was performed by surgeons of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). JEFF GRANIT staff Christopher Ennis, 2, is doing well two years after…
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Beck tells gov.: Abandon COAH legal defense
State Sen. Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth and Mercer) has called on the Corzine administration to abandon its legal defense of the failed subsidized housing policies of the state Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) and to work with legislators of both political parties on a bipartisan solution to the escalating COAH issue. The New Jersey State League…
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Parents want all options examined
Howell TRUTH gets involved with school budget issues BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer For more than a year, members of the Howell Board of Education have been contemplating the possibility of closing one or more schools in order to close a projected $5 million deficit in the 2009-10 school year budget. Some members of the…
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Mega-base will bring new flights
Jackson residents have concerns after recent fighter crash in San Diego BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Last August when Operation Group Commander Col. Scott Hill told a group of Jackson residents at a public meeting that there will be 80,000 flights a year over the region when McGuire Air Force Base, Fort Dix and Naval…
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Motocross has local racer flying high
Teenager prepares for 09 after stellar ’08 season BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer While many high-schoolage boys play baseball, basketball, football or soccer, Chris Duymich competes in a completely different kind of sport that often takes him hundreds of miles away from home. PHOTO COURTESY OF SCOTT LUKAITIS Chris Duymich, 16, of Millstone Township, competes…
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NAACP marks 100 years of fighting for civil rights
On brink of Barack Obama’s presidency, organization honors its history BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer For 100 years, one organization has worked toward the goal of political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. That organization is the National Association for the Advancement of…
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Jackson mayor to host budget forum Jan. 24
JACKSON — Mayor Michael Reina said that in an attempt to provide Jackson with a sound and efficient budget in 2009, he will host a budget forum at 10 a.m. Jan. 24. The budget forum will be held at the senior center on Don Connor Boulevard. Reina said the purpose of the budget forum will…
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Jackson board OKs new retail center
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — The Planning Board has voted to grant approval for the construction of a 16,000-square-foot retail building on West Veterans Highway near Hawkin Road. The application was filed by Gelori LLC. Board members voted 6-1 on Jan. 5 to grant approval to the project. Eileen Tobasco, Robert Hudak, George…
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Former police officer files harassment suit
PLUMSTED — Mayor Ron Dancer said this week that a civil action complaint alleging sexual harassment has been filed in state Superior Court naming Plumsted police Lt. George Titko and the Plumsted Police Department as defendants, by the plaintiff, Suzanne Des Marais, a former Plumsted special law enforcement officer. Prior to the filing of the…
