Category: Tri-Town News

  • Library has full slate of events

    JACKSON – The Jackson Branch of the Ocean County Library, 2 Jackson Drive, offers many programs and events geared toward adults, children and teens throughout May. All programs are free and open to the public, however, registration is necessary. For a complete list of schedules, visit the library, call (732) 928-4400 or visit the Internet…

  • Child struck in hit-run to be feted at grid field

    BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer HOWELL – Joe Chaves, the 4-year-old boy who survived a November hit-and-run accident near the Howell Pop Warner youth football complex on Old Tavern Road, will be honored on April 29 at 2:45 p.m. along with the emergency responders who rushed to his aid.…

  • Georgian Court to host trip to ‘The Color Purple’

    Georgian Court University is sponsoring a trip to New York City for a performance of “The Color Purple” on May 7. The trip is open to the public. The bus will depart from the university’s Seventh Street gate in Lakewood at 10 a.m. for the 2 p.m. show. Based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel…

  • Patient takes leukemia fight to the Internet

    BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer ABERDEEN – Julie Meryl’s blood has betrayed her. Diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in 2004, the Manahawkin resident and Aberdeen native has responded in kind to her blood disease with a rousing “Leukemia Sucks.” Meryl and her father, Barry Epstein, have created an Internet Web…

  • Planners give go-ahead to children’s daycare center

    BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR. Staff Writer BY LARRY HLAVENKA JR.Staff Writer HOWELL – The Planning Board has unanimously approved an application for the construction of a Learning Experience Daycare Center. The new facility for children will be in the Regal Plaza on Route 9 north, where it will join an existing storage facility, a retail…

  • State agriculture dept. will make deer fencing available

    New Jersey Secretary of Agricul-ture Charles M. Kuperus has announced that a deer fencing program will be run cooperatively by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture and Rutgers Cooperative Research and Extension. The cost-share program will provide fencing material, plus up to 30 percent of the line posts at no cost to qualified farmers who…

  • Singer receives bar association award

    State Sen. Robert W. Singer (R-Ocean, Monmouth, Mercer, Burlington) was honored by the New Jersey State Bar Assoc-iation (NJSBA) on April 6. The lawmaker was recognized for his legislative efforts to assist the senior and disabled citizens of New Jersey. Singer, who represents the 30th District, which is home to a large senior citizen population,…

  • WRAT-FM names new sales manager

    Greater Media Inc. announced that Marjory C. Guglielmo, of Fair Haven, has been named general sales manager of WRAT-FM, Lake Como. Guglielmo has been with the New Jersey operation for nine years. Prior to that, she was general sales manager at Oldies 100, a senior account executive at WRAT-FM, and was employed at CBS in…

  • Teens indicted in shooting

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer JACKSON – Three teenagers have been indicted for their roles in a drive-by shooting at the Regency Club Apart-ments, New Prospect Road. The incident, which occurred at 1:30 a.m. Nov. 13, sent two young people to the hospital with serious injuries. “An indictment has been brought,”…