• Jackson is not fine with plan for signs

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — The Township Council has expressed its displeasure with what it says is an unfunded mandate being placed on the municipality by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The DOT is requiring all state and local governments to re-fit and re-face street signs to meet new lettering and reflectivity standards.…

  • Eight seeking 3 seats in Howell

    Six candidates running for two seats in Jackson; 3 unopposed in Plumsted Eight residents have filed nominating petitions to run for three available three-year terms on the Howell K-8 School District Board of Education in the April 27 election. The candidates are Sheryl Roses, Gene Tanala, Renee Altshul, Amy Fankhauser, StephenM. Levine, AlbertMiller, Waldmar Panek…

  • datebook 

     St. Aloysius School, 935 Bennetts Mills Road, Jackson, will host an open house from 10 a.m. to noon March 27. All are invited to tour the school and to meet the teachers and students. Details: 732-370- 1515, ext. 212.  A Mother-Son Dance hosted by the Howell Parks and Recreation Department will be held…

  • Theft of satellite radio reported in Plumsted

    PLUMSTED — Police are investigating the theft of an XM Satellite radio unit from a vehicle that was parked on Hemlock Drive. According to information provided by police, on March 13 at 9:42 a.m., Cpl. Robert Zack was patrolling on Hemlock Drive when he was stopped by a resident who wanted to report the theft…

  • HTEF seeks participants for race

    HOWELL— The Howell Township Education Foundation (HTEF) has added a new challenge to its annual 5K Race/Walk to be held on June 4 in Howell. This year, event organizers are offering a discretionary grant worth $1,000 to the Howell school that provides the highest percentage of race participants, based on school enrollment. All runners and…

  • This is not the time to abandon our clean energy goals

    A ll around the globe we hear environmental horror stories. Nuclear accidents, pipeline explosions, 34 states with contaminated water from natural gas drilling, the BP disaster, ozone depletion, and more. We are also held hostage by oilproducing nations. If we learn anything from the disaster in Japan, it is that we are the custodians of…

  • Senator sponsors law to end ‘legal fleecing’ of taxpayers

    There are certain abuses of the pension system that, more than others, erode the public’s trust in government and give public servants a bad name. On the top of that list is the practice of double dipping, when politicians and public servants use multiple public jobs to line their pockets. I am the primary sponsor…

  • for the record 

    Scott Sargent has withdrawn his nominating petition and will not run for re-election to the Jackson School District Board of Education in theApril 27 election. School district administrators notified the Tri- Town News of that development after the deadline for the March 17 edition of the newspaper had passed. Two three-year terms on the Jackson…

  • Resident seeking more information about Jackson solar project

    I read the March 10 article in the Tri-Town News (“School Board Seeks Support for Solar Energy Initiative”) with interest. It sounds like progress and a good idea, but the article appears to be written for someone other than the home-owning taxpayer. The article talks about savings and federal funds and gross income — all…

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