Category: Tri-Town News
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Black history focus of meeting
LAKEWOOD – The Lakewood Heritage Commission will host “AWalk Down Memory Lane” in honor of Black History Month, being celebrated during February. The event will be held at the auditorium of the Lakewood municipal building on Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. The program will be an oral history told by a panel of guests from…
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Retail building proposed forW. Veterans Highway
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON – An application for a new retail building, Gelori LLC, on West VeteransHighway nearHawkins Road, has been presented to the Planning Board. Testimony on the application was heard at a recent meeting of the board. In introducing the project, Planning Board engineer Douglas Klee said the applicant is proposing…
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Mentoring program helps youths stay on right track
BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer LAKEWOOD – After watching Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. give his landmark “I have a dream” speech during the historic March on Washington in August 1963, Michael Rush, the deputy superintendent of Paterson’s public schools, was inspired to become successful and give something back to his community. Rush is the…
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Go Bags will aid Howell police in cases of a shooting
HOWELL – The Howell Township Policemen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) in conjunction with the Howell PBA Vest and Safety Fund issued allHowell police officers Go Bags on Jan. 23. The bags are designed to be carried by a police officer when responding to an activeshooter incident and contain equipment an officer may need to assist him…
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Champions crowned
Nine boys and girls from Jackson and Howell, ages 10 to 14, were named local champions of the 2008 Knights of Columbus free throw championship and have earned the right to compete at the regional level. The Howell-Jackson Council 6201 sponsored the local competition at the St. Veronica School gym on Jan. 19. All youngsters…
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ERIC SUCAR staff Claude “Tojo” Henderson of the Harlem Wizards tries his best to intimidate a young volunteer during the Wizards’ benefit basketball game against teachers from the Crawford-Rodriguez Elementary School, Jackson, on Jan. 23. The game was a fundraiser for the Crawford-Rodriguez PTN. The event took place at Jackson Liberty High School.
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Falling enrollment could prompt school closing
Howell district at about 7,100 pupils; options examined BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer As one way of dealing with a declining enrollment in the community’s K-8 public schools, Howell Board of Education members are considering the possible option of closing a school. The Howell school district has 13 schools – 10 elementary schools and three…
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Grant will help fund rain garden
PLUMSTED – New Egypt High School’s Environmental Club is one of five Ocean County school programs to be awarded the Ocean County Soil Conservation District’s Rain Garden Project grant. “Giving the students an opportunity to be included in this project will give them a new appreciation of conservation that an indoor classroom could not give,”…
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Dancer ready for appearance on world stage
Rachel Kern will travel to Belfast for championships BY BARI FAYE SIEGEL Correspondent When she was a little girl, Rachel Kern dreamed of being a doctor, not a dancer like some of her peers. With college fast approaching, the Howell High School freshman remains committed to her goals of healing the sick and making a…
