• Residents can receive vital messages

    HOWELL — Mayor Robert Walsh and the Township Council are encouraging Howell residents to sign up for the township’s Code Red Emergency Notification System. According to a press release, the Code Red Emergency Notification System is an “ultra-speed telephone communication service” that will be used in case of an emergency. The system allows township officials…

  • Deal means no Lakewood layoffs

    LAKEWOOD — Officials announced that they have reached an amicable agreement with all six of the bargaining unions that represent the majority of township employees, and that planned layoffs will not occur. Deputy Mayor Steven Langert expressed the sentiments of the Township Committee by saying, “We thank the employees for working together with the township…

  • Three arrested after robbery at Aeropostale outlet store

    JACKSON — Three individuals were arrested in connection with a robbery in Jackson on the afternoon of Feb. 5. Jackson Police Department public information officer Capt. David Newman reported that Jackson police responded to the Aeropostale store at the Jackson Premium Outlets, Route 537, at 3:56 p.m. Feb. 5 on a report of a robbery.…

  • 2011 backyard bird count invites people to ‘count for the future’

    During the weekend of Feb. 18-21, people across the North American continent are encouraged to count the birds in their backyards and report them over the Internet as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), one of the world’s largest volunteer efforts of its kind. In addition to its value as a research study,…

  • Jackson resident to perform in opera at Ramapo College

    Feb. 20 will mark the Hawthorne Symphony Orchestra’s 10th anniversary performance at the Berrie Center’s Sharp Theater at Ramapo College, Mahwah. Aresident of Jackson will be front and center during the 3 p.m. performance. Presenting Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” the Hawthorne Symphony Orchestra has secured the metropolitan area’s finest professional musicians and internationally recognized stars…

  • Soon, the only smoking area will be the landfill

    CODA GREG BEAN When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg began targeting smokers eight years ago, he started small by making it against the law to smoke in bars, restaurants, hotels and offices. Thatwas good news to us nonsmokers, who were tired of breathing secondhand smoke at the barwhilewe sipped double Black Jacks and ate…

  • Veterans’ memories gain place in national archives

    BY ANDREW DAVISON Staff Writer Behind each war story in the media are the men and women who lived it before it was news; for them, it was reality. Iraq War veteran Justin Sasso, of Holmdel, hopes that adding his oral history to the Library of Congress’Veterans History Projectwill help restore that forgotten empathy. Sasso,…

  • Retired AD warns that NJSIAA could go bankrupt in two years

    What personal agenda does stateAssemblyman John Burzichelli have against the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association? Or is there a political motive (or appointment) behind his relentless crusade to bankrupt and abolish the NJSIAA? He has used his political prowess to bully the state athletic association. Arealistic look at what is actually happening at games…

  • A suggestion to do away with road tolls in NJ

    The following is a letter I sent to Gov. Chris Christie on Feb. 9. You have established a reputation for bringing fiscal responsibility back to New Jersey. However, I am concerned that you may be missing out on a muchneeded cost-reduction opportunity, that of the elimination of road tolls. It would reduce taxes (yes, tolls…

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