Category: Tri-Town News
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BBB: Read extended warranties, service contracts, return policies
Stop before you throw away those contracts or receipts this holiday season and take the time to read the fine print on extended warranties, service contracts and return/exchange policies. It may end up saving you money. A new Better Business Bureau (BBB) national survey conducted by national market research firm Kelton Research finds that nearly…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Joseph Kemerle, 16, (l-r), Janice Frostick and Paisley Andreen, 16, perform with the Wesley Bell Ringers during the Festival of Choirs concert sponsored by the Howell Township Cultural Arts and Heritage Committee and held at the First United Methodist Church, Farmingdale.
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ROTC brightens holiday with toy drive
Jackson students learning lessons of caring for others BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Air Force Junior ROTC cadets from Jackson Memorial and Jackson Liberty high schools are gaining a great deal of self-satisfaction from their participation in the program. DAVE BENJAMIN Students in the Jackson School District ROTC program wrap presents that were collected and…
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Students deliver special holiday meal
BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer HOWELL – For the 10th consecutive year families from Howell’s Ramtown Elementary School joined with the township’s senior services department and a local restaurant to bring homebound seniors a hot meal on Christmas Eve. On Dec. 24 approximately 15 homebound seniors received a dinner that included a split half chicken,…
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Cheerleading coach asks for job back
BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer Lisa Rizzo-Troxell, Manalapan High School’s former cheerleading coach of 11 years, asked the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education on Dec. 17 to reinstate her to her position. The board met at Howell High School. Rizzo-Troxell offered to return as the cheerleaders’ competition coach free of charge. Rizzo-Troxell…
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County offers assistance with Medicare part D
With the deadline to sign up for Medicare Part D fast approaching, the Ocean County Office of Senior Services is reminding residents that help is available. “The Ocean County Office of Senior Services, under the direction of Freeholder Joseph Vicari, has done an outstanding job in helping Ocean County’s seniors with navigating the paperwork and…
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Sea training tour a success for Howell man
Midshipman David J. Brienza of Howell recently returned to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy after completing his sea training tour aboard three U.S. merchant and military vessels. Cadets at the academy, in Kings Point, N.Y., are required to serve two tours totaling 300 days as marine engineers or 360 days as deck officers. Brienza is…
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Howell man gets prison term
A former assistant manager of a Hudson City Savings Bank branch in West Long Branch was sentenced on Dec. 14 to 24 months in federal prison for embezzling nearly $500,000 from the bank, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson, sitting in Trenton, also ordered Robert Libby, 33, of Howell,…
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Hotel plan may return at later date
HOWELL – A public hearing on an applicant’s plan to build a six-story hotel near the intersection of Route 9 and Interstate 195 was not heard by the Howell Zoning Board of Adjustment on Dec. 17. A special meeting of the zoning board had been scheduled for that night to hear the hotel application. Local…
