• Torah celebration to be held at school

    A Hachnasat Sefer Torah celebration will be held on Sunday, April 28 by Yeshiva at the Jersey Shore students, families, friends and neighbors. The school will celebrate the welcoming of their very own Torah, which was brought over from Poland in the early 1900s by a 13-year-old boy. The celebration will begin at 1:30 p.m.…

  • ARE WE THERE YET

    Oh no! It’s the ‘Company Mode!’ LORI CLINCH Parenting — it’s not for the faint of heart, I’ll give you that! It starts out with queasy mornings, sleepless nights, and a waistline that grows to exponential proportions and never again realizes its youthful appearance. Then there are the terrible twos, the ferocious fives, and a…

  • Howell to buy 7-acre tract

    HOWELL — Municipal officials are in the process of acquiring land on Maxim- Southard Road that is expected to be used as open space and as a new entrance to the Bear Swamp Natural Area. The township has bought the 7.27-acre property for about $195,000, according to Township Manager Helene Schlegel. The parcel that has…

  • Meet world’s ugliest dog

    Elwood may be one ugly dog, but he has a beautiful story to tell. Meet this unique personality — and his human companion, Karen Quigley — at a special author talk at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27 at the Monmouth County Library Headquarters, 125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan. Quigley, a resident of Sewell, is the author…

  • Applications available for housing rehab program

    BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer JACKSON — Nearly nine months after the Jackson Township Council approved a $1.3 million plan to rehabilitate a number of substandard affordable housing units, officials announced that the application process for residents is underway. The plan is expected to accommodate repairs to 46 low-income residential units throughout Jackson. “The primary…

  • for the record 

    The 2013-14 budget adopted by the Plumsted Township School District Board of Education will have funds appropriated for two dedicated security employees. An April 11 Tri- Town News article incorrectly reported that the district employs three school resource officers (SRO) in its schools. According to administrators, the district did not employ anyone as an SRO…

  • Freeholder protests proposed JCP&L rate increase

    This is an open letter to the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law. Jersey Central Power & Light’s (JCP&L) recent petition that would yield an overall net operating revenue increase of approximately $112.325 million to cover the costs of Tropical Storm Irene, superstorm Sandy and the November 2012 nor’easter is yet another insult to its…

  • Bring national anthem to public’s attention for all events

    Why do we only get to see the national anthem after a tragedy? I am not taking the issue of what happened in Boston without the seriousness it truly deserves, and my thoughts are with those who were hurt and killed. My problem is why it always takes a tragedy such as this to remind…

  • Now is the time for public to speak about senior services

    A s a member of the Monmouth County Office on Aging Advisory Council and as founder of the “sandwich generation” concept, I see the increasing needs of seniors and elders in our communities and shrinking funds to meet these needs. Monmouth County has one of the highest ratios of seniors in the state. Once a…

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