Category: Tri-Town News

  • Traffic laws we don’t know or simply ignore

    “The courts in this state have been good as far as protecting the rights of the motorist.” Stephen Carrellas – N.J. chapter coordinator, National Motorists Association Passing on the right or hanging tassels from a rearview mirror can get you tickets in the Garden State BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer You see the flashing red…

  • Builder gets board’s OK to construct two homes

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Jackson JACKSON – The Planning Board has given an 8-0 vote of approval for a two-lot subdivision to be known as Hyson Estates. The 3-acre parcel at the corner of Chandler Road and Genova Avenue in an R-3 residential zone will be divided into two smaller…

  • Misconceptions abound about police, traffic laws

    Officer dispels myth about ticket quotas; former prosecutor addresses DWI issues BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Anything hanging from your rearview mirror can cost you a $54 fine. Most people have their own perception and misconceptions about the police – good and bad – but some misconceptions can…

  • Council gives approval to administrative code

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer JACKSON – An ordinance revising the township’s administrative code – the document which lays out how the municipal government functions – has been given a final vote of approval by Township Council members. During the public hearing on the ordinance at a council meeting in December,…

  • Food pantry distribution scheduled for 4th Thursday

    JACKSON – The Jackson Food Pantry announced that it has come up with a schedule for 2007 that is available by telephone. The food pantry, 65 Don Connor Blvd., will be open once a month on the fourth Thursday for food distribution, with the exception of holiday months. For the exact dates, residents who need…

  • Former Howell principal begins freeholder term

    Freeholder Barbara J. McMorrow swears the oath of office as her husband, Patrick, holds the Bible. FREEHOLD – Barbara J. McMorrow, a former teacher and principal at Howell High School, was sworn in to a three-year term on the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders last week. At the same time, Rosemarie D. Peters, a former…

  • On Campus

    Tom Smith, son of Jeanette and Tom Smith of Howell, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall quarter at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y., where he is a freshman in the College of Applied Science and Technology. A 2006 graduate of Freehold High School, Freehold Borough, Smith is studying computer engineering…

  • Scarpelli pleads guilty to accepting bribes as mayor

    REGIONAL INTEREST BY PATRICIA A. MILLER COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writers BY PATRICIA A. MILLERCOLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writers BRICK TOWNSHIP – Former Mayor Joseph C. Scarpelli left a message on township employee Edward Moroney’s voicemail on Jan. 5. “He said to expect a bad day on Monday (Jan. 8),” said Moroney, who works as a staff assistant…

  • Donated bicycles make Christmas bright

    BY ELANA ARON Correspondent BY ELANA ARONCorrespondent For 10 children, this Christmas was like no other they have celebrated in the past. It all began at Freehold Area Open Door, a nonprofit agency that provides food, emergency funding, mentoring and scholarship programs to needy families in Freehold Borough, Freehold Town-ship, Colts Neck, Marlboro and Millstone…