Category: Tri-Town News

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • New Egypt Elks fishing tournament June 25

    The 10th Annual Luby Britt Memorial Fishing Tournament, sponsored by the New Egypt Elks Youth Activities Committee, will be held June 25 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Fin Fur and Feather Club on Millers Mill Road and Route 526 in the Red Valley section of New Egypt. All children ages 1 to 13…

  • Seniors finish training and stand ready to help

    Crossroads at Howell provides CERT course for building residents BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer CLARE MARIE CELANO CERT graduate Yvonne Pinto receives her certificate from Howell Township Manager Thomas Czerniecki as Howell Fire Bureau Capt. Robert Lewis looks on. HOWELL – Some senior citizens weave baskets, take art lessons,…

  • Tea time in Jackson

    The Jackson Recreation Department sponsored a “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party” at the Jackson Senior Center on May 7. In top photo, the White Rabbit escorts “Alice,” Taylor Frizzola, into the event. In bottom photo, Madison Giovencia, 4, hands her grandmother, Marie Giovencia, a flower during the party.

  • Barnegat Bay program links with literacy effort

    When the Barnegat Bay National Estuary Program (BBNEP) awarded the Literacy Volun-teers of America, Ocean County, (LVA) a 2005 minigrant, it was obviously considered an excellent project for the Barnegat Bay Watershed, but no one could estimate the extensive audience it would eventually reach. According to a press release, under the supervision of Agnes Hebler,…

  • Planners give go-ahead to Rt. 9 Hampton Inn

    BY ELANA ARON Correspondent BY ELANA ARON Correspondent FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – The Plan-ning Board has approved a developer’s application to build a hotel complex on Route 9 south between Schanck Road and the jughandle for Three Brooks Road. The application submitted by Freehold Lodging Realty was heard on May 4 and May 18 and approved…

  • Pupils honored by school board

    HOWELL – At its May 17 meeting, the Board of Education rolled out the red carpet to recognize the Howell K-8 school district’s outstanding student achievements. A group of about 100 students received awards from a variety of disciplines, fields and organizations. The recognized students were participants and winners of: the Student Achievers awards, the…

  • Freeholders pan ‘sick tax’

    FREEHOLD – Citing the impact Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposed “sick tax” would have on Monmouth County’s hospitals, the Board of Freeholders passed a resolution critical of the proposal to tax hospital beds, urging all 120 state legislators to oppose such a levy. Freeholder Theodore J. Narozanick, who prepared the resolution, said the tax being proposed…