Category: Tri-Town News

  • IN THE ARTS

    A salute to the giants of pre-war jazz and blues, featuring the acoustic guitars of Mike Barris and Jerry Topinka, the trumpet of Tom Bender, and the voice of Cheryl Parker, is on tap Friday, Aug. 31, as part of the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation’s “Reckless Steamy Nights” concert series at The Woman’s…

  • “Forever Plaid”

    Win the chance to appear on the stage of the historic Paramount Theater in the September production of Park Players’ “Clothes Encounters!” Here’s how: Attend a performance of “Forever Plaid,” put your name and phone number on the back of the ticket stub and drop it in the designated box. Three winners will be selected…

  • Sept. 6 set as opening day for students in Jackson

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON – It’s time to say goodbye to those lazy, crazy days of summer and time to look ahead to the beginning of the new school year, just days away. The Jackson School District will open its doors on Sept. 6 for more than 9,800 students. Jackson Liberty High School…

  • Restaurant may displace Jersey Freeze

    FREEHOLD – It just may be the end of an era, one that included ice cream sundaes on hot summer nights and hot dogs after a Little League baseball game. Customers of the Jersey Freeze ice cream stand and restaurant at Route 9 and Manalapan Avenue may have to switch their appetite from ice cream…

  • Town receives single bid for 2-acre parcel

    JACKSON – Municipal officials received one bid for the purchase of a 2.5- acre parcel at the corner of West Veterans Highway and Don Connor Boulevard. According to information provided by the township clerk’s office, one bid of $2,010,000 was received for the land by the Aug. 16 deadline. The bid was submitted by Feinberg…

  • Longtime employee bids farewell after 45 years

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Mary Moore JACKSON – After 45 years of service to Jackson, a very special employee is retiring. Mary Lee Brooks, better known as Mary Moore, the township’s supervising tax clerk, will be retiring on Aug. 31. “I can’t believe I’m leaving,” said Moore, who has worked in the tax collector’s…

  • A bird in the hand…

    BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer Joe Kelly of Howell holds a hummingbird he pulled out of the vinyl siding of his home. Kelly said he and his wife, Jean, have been putting up hummingbird feeders for 20 years and said the rescue is the first time anything like this has ever happened. HOWELL – Catching…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Jackson Pop Warner Mitey Mite player Devynn Lee (26) carries the ball in a game against Howell that was played on the Jaguars’ new synthetic turf field off Manhattan Street, Jackson, on Aug. 26.

  • Jackson officials want signs taken down from utility poles

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON – It is time to say goodbye to some of the clutter that people call road signs – not the signs that provide useful directions, but the signs that people place on utility poles in violation of state law. At its meeting on Aug. 14, the Township Council passed…