Category: Tri-Town News
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Renaissance technique comes to life
Lakewood students place their own art in bronze panel BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer BY TOYNETT HALLStaff Writer ERIC SUCAR staff Members of a Lakewood High School ceramics class watch master sculptor James Robinson create a piece of art that incorporates the students’ geometric forms in a five-panel bronze casting. Lakewood High School students contributed…
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DEP commissioner coming to address Ocean issues
TOMS RIVER – State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Com-missioner Lisa Jackson will be the keynote speaker at the League of Women Voters of Ocean County’s annual meeting and luncheon on April 28. “We are absolutely delighted she is coming,” said League President Gail Marsh Saxer. “This is a county league and we will have…
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U.S. attorney tells students he believes in them
Chris Christie meets with students at Colts Neck High School BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer PHOTOS BY VICTORIA HURLEY-SCHUBERT Chris Christie, the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, answers questions from students following his remarks at Colts Neck High School. COLTS NECK – Finding something or someone…
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Fundraiser helps child’s family
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Jackson JACKSON – A recent fundraising Easter egg hunt has helped to raise $3,000 for the family of 3-year-old Colleen Nagy. The child has acute myeloid leukemia and is being treated at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. “It went beyond our wildest dreams,” said…
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Pair admits to defrauding Target with bad bar codes
A Lakewood couple pleaded guilty on April 17 to devising and running a scheme in which they profited by selling merchandise that was fraudulently purchased below retail prices from Target stores through the use of fake bar code labels, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. Robert Bailey, 39, and his wife, Theresa Bailey, 45, entered…
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Residents irked at noise coming from shopping center
BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer BY TOYNETT HALLStaff Writer Howell HOWELL – Residents of Bernard Drive expressed their concerns about noise coming from a shopping center near their homes during the Planning Board’s April 12 hearing on an application filed by the Howell Friendship Real Estate Co. to construct an enclosed loading dock area in…
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In the Service
Air Force Reserve Airman 1st Class Brandice K. Severin has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. During the six weeks of training, the airman studied the Air Force mission, organization, and military customs and courtesies; performed drill and ceremony marches, and received physical training, rifle marksmanship, field training…
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Benefit volleyball game on tap
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer JACKSON – Members of Jackson PBA Local No. 168 will join local firefighters for a volleyball game against McAuliffe Middle School faculty members. The event will take place at 6 p.m. May 2 in the McAuliffe Middle School gymnasium. “We did it back in November for…
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Area agencies to benefit from May 12 food drive
“It’s really not that difficult. It feels good to give back.” – Colleen Latyshev BY TOYNETT HALL Staff Writer BY TOYNETT HALLStaff Writer Joshua House Ministries, a subsidiary and Christian outreach program of Pierce Memorial Presbyterian Church, Farmingdale, will be one of the many recipients to receive a donation from the National Association of Letter…
