• Blood remembers 15 years of service to school board

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer HOWELL — Patricia Blood recently got a standing ovation from a crowd of more than 600 people at what she described as her most difficult meeting in her 15 years on the Howell K-8 School District Board of Education. “I thought I was all done,” Blood said after the…

  • Six farms quarantined in equine herpes investigation

    On April 1 the New Jersey Department of Agriculture’s Division of Animal Health announced the quarantines of five Monmouth County farms and one Gloucester County farm as an investigation continues into a possible Equine Herpes Virus (EHV) outbreak. According to a press release, two horses at Sweet Dreams Farm, 463 Casino Drive, Howell, were euthanized…

  • McAuley Institute course at GCU examines life in the Gilded Age

    LAKEWOOD — Shameful marriage woes, shocking business scandals, and excessive celebrity lifestyles are not just the makings of modern-day reality TV shows or grocery store tabloids. It is also 20th century history — the stuff of real life for the heirs of railroad tycoon Jay Gould and the wealthy class that thrived during the Gilded…

  • FRHSD adopts $177M budget for 2010-11

    Residents will vote on $119.3 tax levy in April 20 election BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer Positions now held by assistant principals, supervisors and teachers will not be accounted for in the Freehold Regional High School District’s 2010-11 budget. As many as 81 people may be cut from the district’s payroll by the start of…

  • St. Aloysius pupils excel at competition

    JACKSON — Pupils from the St. Aloysius School recently brought home Olympic gold and silver. The pupils from St. Aloysius participated in the 17th annual Monsignor Donovan Scholastic Olympics held on March 16 at Monsignor Donovan High School, Toms River. Competition was held in a variety of subjects including science, technology, art, math, spelling, English…

  • Museum Night features students’ art creations

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Students in the Jackson School District are learning a lot about art, artists and art history these days. From Japanese sumi-e painting to fauvism to op art, the pupils are becoming well rounded as they work in a variety of mediums. “The genesis of this project was a Pathways Project…

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    Howell High School graduate Austyn Fobes, who is a freshman at the University of New Hampshire, captured All-East Atlantic Gymnastics League Conference All-Tournament honors at the conference championships hosted by New Hampshire. Fobes earned first-team honors on the vault after scoring 9.825 and second-team All-Tournament honors on floor exercise with a score of 9.75. New…

  • Middle school teams see success on court

    BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer The boys basketball programs at Jackson Memorial and Jackson Liberty high schools look to have successful futures in store with some talented players moving up from the McAuliffe Middle School’s 2009-10 championship team and from a Goetz Middle School squad that turned in a winning mark this past season. This…

  • Military gets break on tickets

    The Lakewood BlueClaws have announced a series of military-based initiatives for the upcoming 2010 season, including a discount for active and retired members of the United States armed forces. Members, or retired members, of the military can bring their military ID with them to the FirstEnergy Park box office windows and receive individual game tickets…

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