Category: Tri-Town News

  • FRHSD requires cell phones to be kept in student lockers

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Local high school students can say farewell to their cell phones for the length of the academic day. The Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education adopted a new policy at its Aug. 25 meeting that requires remotely activated or activating communication devices to be kept in student lockers.…

  • Howell approves bonding for town improvements

    BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer HOWELL — The Township Council has adopted a capital improvements ordinance that will see $3.65 million worth of bonds issued to help finance a total of $4 million worth of capital improvements. The ordinance was adopted by the council on Aug. 12. The total expense of $4 million includes a…

  • Court’s expert explains affordable housing rules

    Planning Board continues review of Windsor Crescent BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer DAVE BENJAMIN Court master Philip Caton discusses New Jersey’s affordable housing rules during a meeting of the Jackson Planning Board. JACKSON — An expert on New Jersey’s affordable housing regulations presented information about the issue to the Planning Board and members of the…

  • Document shredding to be offered

    PLUMSTED — The Township Committee and the Main Street organization have arranged a free document shredding opportunity for residents on Sept. 20 from 9 a.m. to noon in the parking lot of the New Egypt Market Place, Main Street, New Egypt. The event is being coordinated through Guardian Document Destruction Co. The free shredding has…

  • Lessons from a dark chapter in world history

    Holmdel teacher tours Holocaust sites in Europe BY ERIN O. STATTEL Staff Writer ABOVE PHOTO BY ERIC SUCAR staff Above: Holmdel High School teacher Jill McCracken stands outside the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Center at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft. Below: An underground bunker where Jews hid from the Nazis. The atrocities of the Holocaust…

  • Howell youth to appear on annual MDA telethon

    Nicholas Zichella, 11, lives with Duchenne muscular dystrophy BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer   HOWELL — Nicholas Zichella, 11, can swim in 11 feet of water. He plays video games and hangs out with his friends. Nicholas acts like a typical boy except that unlike his peers, he cannot walk. Nicholas, who will enter the…

  • Lakewood driver charged in case involving fatality

    BRICK TOWNSHIP — Police are alleging that a Lakewood man was at fault in an accident that resulted in the death of a disabled woman who was trying to cross Chambers Bridge Road last month. Ronald R. Caroselli, 69, of Lakewood, has been charged with careless driving and failure to yield to a pedestrian following…

  • Food allergy walk will raise awareness

    BY CHRISTINE VARNO Staff Writer Afundraising walk is planned next month along the Long Branch oceanfront to increase public awareness about food allergies, which affect more than 12 million Americans. The FAAN Walk for Food Allergy: Moving Toward a Cure is scheduled to be held in Long Branch on Sept. 7 to raise awareness, as…

  • Dogs milk the competition for all it’s worth

    Milk-Bone SpokesDog competition paws-es at S.B. dog park BY JULIE KIRSH Staff Writer Think it’s a dog-eat-dog world? Try competing against 12,000 canines trying to be named the Milk-Bone SpokesDog for 2009. PHOTOS BY JULIE KIRSH Canines and owners showed up at Rocky Top Dog Park, South Brunswick, to pose for photos in the Milk-Bone…