Category: Tri-Town News

  • Seniors’ meeting room opens

    PLUMSTED — The township’s first senior citizen meeting/activities room, located in the municipal building at 121 Evergreen Road, will officially open with a ceremonial dedication on Oct. 23 at 11 a.m. Mayor Ron Dancer and members of the Township Committee will be joined by Congressman Chris Smith and the director of the Ocean County Office…

  • Director returns to local scene with play at Jewish museum

    After a three-year hiatus from the Monmouth County arts community, David Sorin of Howell is making his directorial return with the production of Mark Harelik’s “The Immigrant” at the HayLoft Performing Arts Space in Freehold Township. The new space is inside the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County in the Mount’s Corner shopping center at…

  • Vicari: Hard times call for seasoned freeholder

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer In these tough economic times, experience counts, says Republican Freeholder Joseph H. Vicari, who is seeking his 10th term on the board. Joseph H. Vicari “Now more than ever, people need the experience,” Vicari said in a recent interview at his freeholder office in the Ocean County Administration Building…

  • Political newcomer says fresh voice needed

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Stacy Lubrecht Stacy Lubrecht entered the race for the lone seat on the Ocean County Board of Freeholders earlier this year with absolutely no political experience. And that’s a plus for Ocean County residents, she said. “What we need now is someone who sees things from a totally outside…

  • Former Howell resident killed in Pa. car crash

    BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer   A former resident of Howell now living in central Pennsylvania was killed and several of her family members were injured in an Oct. 19 motor vehicle accident on Interstate 81 in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. According to police, Melissa Fogel, 17, was killed as she was riding in a car…

  • From Africa to Allentown

    Presbyterian Church hosts director of mission in Malawi BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Wellings Mwalabu, of Malawi, Africa, visited the Allentown Presbyterian Church for five days to talk about the church’s mission in the village of Sakata, Africa. ALLENTOWN — In the village of Sakata, residents don’t have planners or daily plans.…

  • Photo

    ERIC SUCAR staff The Jackson Cobras — dressed as soccer referees, holding their red and yellow cards and wearing glasses so they can make the correct calls — pose for a photo before playing in the Freehold Soccer League’s Frightfest X tournament on Oct. 18 in Freehold Township.

  • Pop art’s bold imagery on display at Zimmerli

    NEW BRUNSWICK — They are now universally celebrated artists, but in the 1960s they were pioneers in a new era known as proto-pop and pop art. Artists such as Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselmann were inspired by contemporary life, mass media and ordinary consumer goods, and enthusiastically embraced printmaking…

  • Seda will stay – for a while

    Jackson mayor does not resign on date he stated he would BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Jackson Mayor Mark Seda remained in office this week as the date he gave for his resignation — Oct. 17 — came and went. After announcing several months ago that he would leave office on Oct. 17 to spend…