Category: Tri-Town News
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Traffic detour to be in place for three weeks
JACKSON – Westbound traffic on Bennetts Mills Road will be detoured for about three weeks beginning June 1, Ocean County officials announced. Westbound car traffic will be detoured onto South Lakeview Drive and along Maple and Elm streets to accommodate construction along Bennetts Mills Road, said Freeholder John P. Kelly, liaison to the Ocean County…
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Pathfinders host National Trails Day event June 4
JACKSON – The Jackson Pathfind-ers is sponsoring one of the many events being held across the country to celebrate National Trails Day June 4. On that day, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Pathfinders will conduct a trail clean-up at the Bunker Hill Bogs trail area, 810 E. Veterans Highway. The entrance is east…
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Mayors’ association names 2006 scholars
Twenty Ocean County high school seniors have been selected as Mayors Scholars, according to David Siddons, Island Heights mayor and president of the Ocean County Mayors Association. For the past 15 years, the mayors’ association has presented scholarships to high school seniors throughout the county who have demonstrated exceptional academic and community achievement. The students…
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Georgian Court University holds 94th commencement
LAKEWOOD – Georgian Court University held its 94th commencement exercises May 19 granting 633 undergraduate and graduate degrees. The first students to graduate from GCU’s Woodbridge site also participated in this commencement. Ruth B. Mandel, director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, this year’s commencement speaker, told the graduates there…
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Board supports legislation for bomb threat penalties
Howell school officials deal with rash of incidents BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer With student-delivered bomb threats affecting school safety and disrupting classroom instruction, the Howell Board of Education has taken steps to curtail the burgeoning problem. At its May 17 meeting, the board passed a resolution to support…
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Options in tax issue are under review by 3 towns
BY MARK ROSMAN Staff Writer BY MARK ROSMANStaff Writer A meeting among municipal officials from three towns produced a decision to study the options available to address a tax inequity. Representatives of the Freehold Township, Colts Neck and Marlboro governing bodies met at the Freehold Township municipal building on May 16 and reviewed the allocation…
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Jackson committee shaves 2 cents off school tax hike
$1.13 million cut from budget; plan now totals $126M BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer Municipal officials and school administrators in Jackson have agreed to a $1.13 million reduction in the proposed tax levy for the 2006-07 school year. Voters on April 18 rejected the Jackson Board of Educa-tion’s proposed $61.1 million…
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District honors teachers
JACKSON – In a ceremony that takes the typical “Teacher of the Year” award a few steps further by recognizing specific traits like innovation, optimism and devotion to principle, the Jackson School District recently honored its teachers for their efforts in pursuing academic excellence. The annual Celebration of Excellence awards are a way for the…
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Civil Air Patrol cadets honored at ceremony
LAKEWOOD – More than 75 Civil Air Patrol members, parents, relatives and siblings gathered at the Pineland Composite Squadron at Lakewood Air-port to honor three cadets – Kevin T. Nixon, of Sea Girt, who won the Air Force Association’s Civil Air Patrol Cadet of the Year Award, and Kenneth M. Lake, of Brick, and Michael…
