Category: Tri-Town News

  • Three new principals join Freehold Regional staff

    District’s 6 high schools approaching total enrollment of 12,000 BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer The word of the day in the Freehold Regional High School District at the dawn of the 2007-08 school year is “new.” That’s new as in three new principals, a new business administrator and a new ROTC program director, among other…

  • Affordable housing to be available

    LAKEWOOD – Township officials have announced that 72 affordable housing units will be available for sale at Lakewood Commons I. The three-bedroom and four-bedroom units that are available in this phase range in price from $110,000 to $220,000, according to a press release. The housing is under development by New Jersey Hand and is for…

  • IN THE ARTS

    . The Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton St., New Brunswick, is currently presenting “A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art,” The exhibit will run through Nov. 18. The exhibition is from a private collection of photography owned by New Jersey residents Anne and Arthur Goldstein and represents major figures with work…

  • Article

    “Twenty Artists Remember 9/11, Six Years Later,” featuring works by local artists, will exhibit at Brookdale’s Western Monmouth Branch Campus, 3680 Route 9 south, Freehold, behind the Bank of America. An artists’ reception Sept. 11, 5-7 p.m., will open the showing. Light refreshments will be served. The works will be on display through Sept. 27.…

  • Residents will celebrate Jackson Day on Sept. 8

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON – Residents of the community will come together to celebrate Jackson Day on Sept. 8 at Johnson Park. “It’s our 30th anniversary,” Mayor Mark Seda said. “It’s the largest event that we sponsor. We will have rides for all ages. Great Adventure, one of our largest sponsors, has done…

  • Lawmakers face roadblocks on the hard road to success

    Some say system in Trenton must be changed BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The idea that there is too much politics in Trenton has been around for so long, it has become a cliché. The familiar bugaboos of partisanship and petty rivalries disrupting the legislative process are well known and well despised. The jockeying for…

  • Towns by district

    About these statistics Staff members at Greater Media Newspapers recently studied the legislative records of each lawmaker in our coverage area for the 2006-07 legislative session. All figures were current as of Aug. 5, while the Legislature was on summer recess. The New Jersey Legislature’s Web site was used to chart the success of each…