Category: Tri-Town News

  • Spraying will be limited to one time in Jackson

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON – There will be no second round of spraying provided by the township to kill gypsy moth caterpillars this spring. Residents will have the option of spraying their property themselves or hiring someone to do if for them. Jackson will participate in the state’s aerial spraying program to combat…

  • Can-do attitude helps teen meet challenges

    BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Anthony Charette of Howell is in the midst of a special year at Marlboro High School, one that is filled with the typical activities some high school seniors may take for granted, but not this young man. Anthony Charette Anthony, 21, has Down syndrome, but he has not let that…

  • From generation to generation

    ERIC SUCAR staff Norma Cohen listens to Aldrich School, Howell, fifth-grader John Fallon describe the stories behind his photographs during a generation project held recently at the school. “A Basket Full ofMemories” allows pupils to interview senior citizens about their lives in order to write a biography about the individual.

  • STEPS continues effort to put people in homes

    Affordable housing remains vexing issue in cental New Jersey BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer The dream of buying a home has finally come true for Tamika Lewis, 30, of Ocean Grove. Lewis, who has waited patiently for four years, was expecting to finally move her three children into a three-bedroom, one-bathroom ranch house in Neptune…

  • Lakewood board may consider sale of 1912 school building

    BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer LAKEWOOD – The Board of Education is considering selling a building that was home to generations of Lakewood school children and now serves as the school district’s administrative offices. A legal notice that was published in a local daily newspaper onMarch 13 states that the Lakewood Board of Education is…

  • Freeholder blasts governor for aid cuts to municipalities

    New Jersey residents, already paying the highest property taxes in the nation, will likely see their bills go even higher following Gov. Jon Corzine’s announced cuts to municipalities, Ocean County Freeholder Director Joseph H. Vicari said. “Every Ocean County resident should be very disturbed by these cuts,” Vicari said. “This is more money leaving Ocean…

  • Duo invades mobile home in Howell

    HOWELL- OnMarch 10 at 9:43 p.m., two men – one who wore a ski mask and carried a gun, and one who held a knife – broke into a mobile home in the Winding Brook Mobile Home Park, Route 547, near Oak Glen Road. According to Howell police Capt. Steven Dreher, no one inside the…

  • Florida teen arrested, faces multiple charges

    Indictment comes 2 years after serious accident in Howell, May 30, 2006 On Feb. 25 a Monmouth County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Robert Bayly, 19, of Cape Coral, Fla., with one count of thirddegree assault by auto and one count of fourth-degree assault by auto. These charges pertain to a 2006 motor vehicle…

  • Volunteers needed for Green Tech Committee

    PLUMSTED – The Township Committee has authorized the establishment of a Green Technology advisory committee to explore ways to reduce energy use and costs with conservation efficiencies and renewable energy systems, including solar and wind. According toMayor Ron Dancer, Plumsted is also subscribing to the state’s Clean Energy and SmartStart Buildings Program, as well as…