Category: Tri-Town News

  • Blood drive produces 38 units

    BY BARI FAYE SIEGEL Correspondent HOWELL – For the third year in a row, Bernadette Mastowski, the nurse at the Land O’ Pines School, and all of her “helper” students enjoyed great success at their annual blood drive- an effort to collect desperately needed blood for New Jersey Blood Services. A total of 38 units…

  • ‘Children’ unites deaf, hearing communities

    Cast was required to learn sign language for upcoming production BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Each project an actor undertakes offers new challenges. Learning all the lines is a basic requirement. Learning all the lines in sign language is monumental. MARK LAMHUT Camille Lorello (l) and Chris Chandonnet use sign language to communicate during rehearsals…

  • Peavy recalled as ‘treasure’

    BY KATHY BARATTA Staff Writer HOWELL – Centenarians are rare people, and their ranks diminished by one last week with the passing of former longtime Howell resident Ira Peavy. Peavy’s was a life well lived, and his epitaph can be summed up in the words of his daughter Nancy Shapiro, who spoke on behalf of…

  • 5 residents seek seats on board

    JACKSON- Five residents have filed petitions to run for a seat on the Jackson Board of Education. There will be two seats available in the April 15 school election. The terms are for three years. Current board members Michael R. Hanlon and Barbara Fiero will seek reelection to the panel which oversees the operation of…

  • Municipal court staff saluted for efficiency

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Michael Nicoletti JACKSON – Municipal court staff members known what they are doing and what they are doing is being done right. “Annually thousands of cases pass through the Jackson court system including traffic violations, criminal charges and recently the state requested that the court address certain security concerns,” Councilman…

  • Survivor’s story kicks off Relay for Life planning

    While the seventh annual New EgyptArea Relay for Life kickoff event drew a large crowd on Feb. 24, this year’s keynote speaker brought out the real meaning of Relay of Life. According to a press release, Jim Matthews of Millstone Township, a 12- year cancer survivor, told the gathering, “There is so much strength and…

  • Council candidate fires first shot of campaign

    JACKSON – It’s time to end the blame game, according to one person who is running for a seat on the Township Council. “(Mayor) Mark Seda and his council can stay in a state of denial for only so long, after which they must admit that they miscalculated the effectiveness of gypsy moth suppression and…

  • Donorschoose.org helps make projects a reality

    Teachers can go online to find funding sources for special initiatives BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer Acquiring funds for the extra projects that make a student’s school life richer is possible if you know where to go. Donorschoose.org is helping to make many teachers more productive in the classroom.Among those teachers is Tracey Corsano,…

  • Teacher shares experience of trip to Ghana, Africa

    BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer ERIC SUCAR staff David Hunt, who is a social studies teacher at Manalapan High School, holds up a piece of artwork that he brought back from his trip to Ghana, Africa. Hunt spoke about his journey at Howell High School on Feb. 26. See story by Tri-Town News staff writer…