Category: Tri-Town News

  • Rec checks considered

    Jackson officials eye criminal history of employees, volunteers BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer An ordinance designed to have criminal history background checks conducted for recreation employees and workers who deal with township youths will come before the Jackson Township Council on Oct. 24. The ordinance was initially introduced on Aug. 8…

  • On Campus

    Jenna M. Lopez, daughter of Diane and Gene Lopez of Jackson, has been recognized as a dean’s scholar for her academic performance during her junior year (2005-06) at Georgian Court Uni-versity, Lakewood, where she is now a senior. Lopez, who is majoring in elementary special education and minoring in psychology, was among those honored on…

  • Police still looking for missing teen

    Victoria Laboy JACKSON – Police are continuing to search for a 17-year-old township girl who has been missing since Aug. 15. Victoria Delia Laboy was last seen wearing blue jeans and a brown T-shirt. She has a cracked front tooth and is described as being mildly mentally disabled. “There’s been no change in that,” said…

  • ‘Dracula’ coming to Freehold

    Freehold Borough FREEHOLD – Center Players takes one of the oldest tales of vampires and breathes life into it at the Center Playhouse, 35 South St. “Dracula,” dramatized by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston and directed by Robert Lamb of Freehold, will open its coffin for the first time in Freehold Bor-ough on Oct.…

  • Among the pumpkins

    CHRIS KELLY staff Wade VanOrden, 7, of Little Egg Harbor, sits on the pumpkin he wants and waits for help – or a wagon – to arrive as he enjoys a day of pumpkin picking at DeWolf Farm, New Egypt, on Oct. 14.

  • Howell council will try to offer assistance on residents’ water bills

    BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer HOWELL – Residents of The Reserve at the Manasquan River residential development who have received exceptionally high water bills may have been thrown a life preserver. During the Township Council’s Oct. 10 meeting held at Memorial Middle School, scores of residents assembled before the…

  • Man gets prison sentence in wake of fatal accident

    On Sept. 29, William Hand, 46, of Beachwood, was sentenced to eight years in state prison in connection with a fatal motor vehicle crash in Howell and burglary of a residence in Manalapan, both occurring April 27, 2005. According to a press release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, Hand must serve six years, nine…

  • U.S. lawsuit charges local firm with discrimination

    BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer LAKEWOOD – In July, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) leveled charges of discrimination against Triple H. Realty, LLC, and two of its employees, Harry Kantor and Vincent Ortiz. According to HUD, the company violated the U.S. Fair Housing Act by…

  • Suspect sought

    HOWELL – A 72-year-old township woman’s jewelry box was taken after she allowed an unknown man access to her home on Squankum-Yellowbrook Road. According to police, on Oct. 12 at about 3 p.m., a man came to the woman’s home and identified himself as an employee of Howell. Police said he told the woman that…