• Police still seeking suspects in Zales jewelry store heist

    BY ANDREW MARTINS Staff Writer JACKSON — Law enforcement officials have yet to arrest the two individuals, a man and a woman, who stole an estimated $200,000 worth of merchandise from the Zales jewelry store at the Jackson Premium Outlets, Route 537, on the night of June 28. Jackson police Lt. Richard Wagner told the…

  • National Night Out returns to Jackson

    JACKSON— To the people tasked with protecting life and property across the nation, immediately helping citizens in need takes precedent over knowing everyone on a first-name basis. However, on Aug. 2 the members of the Jackson Police Department will be trying to get to know people on a firstname basis as they host the community’s…

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     VSA New Jersey will host an art exhibit from Aug. 1 to Sept. 23 at the Red Horse Gallery inside Freehold Raceway Mall, Freehold Township. The works of Christopher Miller and artists from the South Brunswick Senior Center and Work Opportunity Center of The Arc of Monmouth will be on display. A “Meet the…

  • Golf outing will benefit injured soldiers

    I n 2008, after their son Brian survived the loss of both his legs and other severe traumatic injuries from an explosion of an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, Joanne and James Brennan of Howell vowed to help other families and members of the U.S. armed forces who were injured in the line of duty.…

  • Firefighter earns kudos at graduation

    Darlene Burke-Bergeron JACKSON — Graduation ceremonies were held at the Ocean County Fire and EMS Training Center, Waretown, on June 23. Firefighter Darlene “Dee” Burke- Bergeron of the Cassville Volunteer Fire Company No. 1, of Jackson, along with firefighters from all over Ocean County celebrated their successful completion of Firefighter Level I certification and basic…

  • First, it’s your soda, then they’ll come for the bacon

    CODA GREG BEAN Everybody has their own idea of what the fire pit down below might look like, and what we have to look forward to if we don’t mind our p’s and q’s while we’re on this mortal plane. In my imagined Hades, only the very bad go to the worst levels, and those…

  • JCP&L is making plan for LED lighting tough to achieve

    You are a township badly strapped for cash and you find out that you can reduce the cost of street lighting from $6.81 to 88 cents per street light. Then you find out that you can get a federal grant for $450,000 to pay for the conversion. A win-win situation. Then the you-know-what hits the…

  • Libraries are a valuable resource for economic recovery

    Nine months ago, thanks to a $5.1 million federal Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant, the New Jersey State Library implemented a series of steps to enable libraries throughout New Jersey to better assist our unemployed and underemployed residents and their families. As unemployment in our state skyrocketed, going from 4.5 percent in 2007 to…

  • Councilman Kafton should make a decision and stick with it

    I am responding to an article in the July 14 Tri- Town News about the municipal budget for Jackson. So many times over the past 10 years I have vacillated over writing in about Councilman Mike Kafton’s antics. I get nauseous just thinking of all the times he has changed sides. Really, Mr. Kafton, I…

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