Category: Tri-Town News

  • 46-home subdivision gains board’s approval

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer JACKSON – Whitesville Road will see 46 new homes. An application filed by Pinerock Terra LLC has received preliminary approval from the Planning Board. “The applicant is seeking approval for 46 single-family lots, one storm water management lot and one sanitary sewer pump station lot,” said…

  • Artist cuts deep through America’s horrors, joys

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer PHOTOS BY MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Robert Emmett Mueller, a Roosevelt woodcut artist, prepares for an upcoming exhibit and displays a print he made from a woodcut of Ben Shahn. ROOSEVELT – Robert Emmett Mueller believes woodcutting is a social communicator that can help free people. Born…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Jackson Memorial High School art students try to decide how to make the finishing touches on their entry in the Chalk Day event held May 20 in the ShopRite parking lot, Jackson. The annual event is sponsored by the Jackson Community Alliance and the Jackson Optimist Club.

  • Medical corps participants ready for training session

    Approximately 200 Ocean County residents are ready to participate in special training sessions designed to help prepare them to tackle any public health emergency that could arise here, according to an Ocean County Health Depart-ment spokeswoman. The residents, who are all volunteers, are part of the Ocean County Medical Reserve Corps, (MRC). According to Mary…

  • 7 Lakewood alumni will be honored at ceremony

    LAKEWOOD – Eight men will be inducted into the Lakewood High School Alumni Hall of Fame at its 12th annual luncheon to be held May 21 at the Woodlake Country Club. The inductees are Michael J. D’Elia (1956), Dennis Grippen (1956), James W. Hyres (1948), Dale L. Reese (1946), Dr. Maano Milles (1962), John (Pott)…

  • Re-enactment of Toms River attack planned

    TOMS RIVER – The historic attack on the Toms River blockhouse will be re-enacted by Patriots and Loyalists on May 20 at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. The participants will start camping out in Huddy Park at 3 p.m. May 19. The public is invited to talk to the militia and to visit the sutlers…

  • Participants sought for Howell talent show

    The Howell Cultural Arts Committee is sponsoring its first talent show and needs the gift of song to make it a success. The event will be held July 9 at Oak Glen Park (rain date July 30). Performers will take the stage at 4 p.m. doing their best to win over the judges. Prizes will…

  • Police continue to search for Lakewood rape suspect

    BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer LAKEWOOD – Police this week continued to search for the man who is wanted in the rape of a 20-year-old township woman. Lakewood police Capt. Robert Lawson said the woman was abducted and raped on the evening of May 7 after she left the…

  • Aldrich Lake dredging remains sticky situation

    Howell officials hope new equipment will get project going in 2007 BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer HOWELL – The Township Council scheduled a budget workshop meeting on May 9, but residents who showed up at town hall forced the governing body to address another issue – the unfulfilled promise…