Category: Tri-Town News
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Howell artists’ creativity finds no limits with age
BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer PHOTOS BY SCOTT PILLING staff Artist and craftsman John Guempel creates houses like this one out of cereal boxes and coffee stirrers. HOWELL – One uses pencils to go places he has never been. The other just uses anything he can find. Two artists…
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Council adheres to time limit
BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer HOWELL – Where Mayor Joseph DiBella hedged, Deputy Mayor Peter Tobasco pulled the plug. With DiBella absent from the Sept. 19 Township Council meeting, Tobasco and two members of the council voted to close the meeting’s public comment session after one hour had passed…
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Howell Day festivities planned
HOWELL – The 34th annual Howell Day is scheduled for Oct. 7 at Oak Glen Park, Preventorium and Old Tavern roads. The municipal venue has played host to the popular community event for more than 20 years. The festivities will kick off at noon with a medley of patriotic songs presented by fifth-graders from the…
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Muster zone expected to open Oct. 16
BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer LAKEWOOD – The oft-discussed muster zone for day laborers in the Lakewood Industrial Park on Swarth-more Avenue is expected to open Oct. 16. It is still anyone’s guess if the muster zone concept will work as planned and remove the hiring of day laborers…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Jackson Memorial High School’s Mark Schiavone (2) tries to break free of a Freehold Township High School tackler during the Jaguars’ 13-0 win over Patriots on Sept. 29 in Freehold Township.
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Referendum put on hold in Plumsted
Officials say unknown results of revaluation are reason for delay BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer BY MARK ROSMANStaff Writer Plumsted PLUMSTED – The Board of Education has indefinitely postponed a planned December referendum. Meeting on Sept. 27, the Board of Education passed a resolution to put off plans to ask residents to approve a $38…
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Cancer walk now open to community
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Jackson JACKSON – The first township-wide Walk for the Cure will makes its debut on Oct. 8, rain or shine, at Johnson Park, Manhattan Street and South Cooks Bridge Road. “It’s almost impossible to find someone who has not [had a relative or friend] touched by…
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Shopping center gains board’s OK
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer JACKSON – Planning Board members have approved an application for Brookside Point, an eight-store retail center to be built on Route 537 near the Six Flags Great Adventure theme park. Board member Blanche Krubner abstained from the 8-0 vote, saying she wanted to see more detailed…
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School board goings-on irk town officials
BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer Lakewood LAKEWOOD – On Sept. 21, the Board of Education held an emergency meeting to discuss what it believed might be a budget deficit of as much as $1.5 million. The board did not provide a public comment session during which residents could ask…
