• Six to vie for seats in Howell

    HOWELL – Residents will choose from among six candidates for three three-year terms on the Howell K-8 School District Board of Education in the Nov. 5 election. The candidates are Timothy O’Brien, Patrick Dowling, Jeanne DePompo, Nancy Donio, Amy Fankhauser and Charles Welsh. O’Brien is the current board president and Dowling is a current board…

  • Plumsted police seeking suspect in two burglaries

    PLUMSTED — Police in Plumsted and Jackson are searching for a man believed to have been involved in two residential burglaries. In one instance, a resident almost came face to face with the suspect. Plumsted police said that at about noon on May 29, a resident of Hawkins Road returned home and noticed that the…

  • Adelphia holds camp out for food pantry collection

    HOWELL – Students, parents and staff members at the Adelphia School, Route 524, made sure their final community service project of the 2011-12 school year ended on a high note by collecting 10,002 cans of food to benefit the Howell Emergency Food Pantry. The initial goal for students was to collect 4,444 cans of food,…

  • St. Aloysius says farewell to graduates

    Jackson Memorial High School senior class president Margaret Barschow is all smiles as she addresses her classmates, faculty members and guests during graduation ceremonies at the high school June 14. ERIC SUCAR staff JACKSON — The St. Aloysius School class of 2012 graduated June 8. The graduates will be moving on and attending high school…

  • CODA

    You heard it here first: a cure for Old-Timers’ disease GREG BEAN This may be the best argument for requiring students in K-12 school programs to learn a foreign language that I’ve ever heard. And if you’re like me, and becoming a bit more forgetful with every passing year, it’s a pretty good argument for…

  • Columnist fails to offer any solutions

    Every time New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg imposes a new health rule, such as banning indoor smoking and trans fats in fast food, and requiring restaurants to post calorie content, my initial reaction is that he is over-reaching. Then I think about it, and I realize it is not a big imposition and could…

  • Competition needed in N.J. online wagering

    This is a copy of a letter that was sent to Gov. Chris Christie. I am writing about the sorry state of online horse race wagering in New Jersey. There are literally dozens of legal websites based in the United States — but not in New Jersey — where race fans from all over the…

  • Student videos earn dollars for district

    BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer JACKSON — Two video projects created by Jackson Liberty High School students have netted the Jackson School District’s JTV program $10,000 in grants after winning their respective categories at the 2012 MSG Varsity “V Awards.” MSG Varsity is a channel on the Cablevision cable television system that features high school…

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