• Nine seek board seats

    HOWELL — Nine 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 20 election. Incumbents Mary Cerretani and Dr. Stephen M. Levine are seeking new terms. The other candidates are John C. Hein, Suzanne M. Brennan, Jeannette Smith, James P.…

  • Applicant explains plan for new shopping center

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — Testimony is expected to continue at the April 19 meeting of the Jackson Planning Board on an application for the Liberty Commons shopping plaza. The applicant wants to build the shopping center on the northeast corner at the intersection of East Veterans Highway and North Hope Chapel Road.…

  • Planning Board determines density for Jackson Mews

    With allowances for wetlands, 1,541 units have been approved for 257 acres BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer JACKSON — The question of density for the Jackson Mews application has been determined by the Jackson Planning Board. After a two-hour back-and-forth dialogue on Feb. 22, which appeared to be almost heated at times, board members approved…

  • Walk will honor mother, raise funds for research

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer HOWELL — Like most daughters, Nicole Tuscano liked to buy her mother gifts and send her cards on special days. But Tuscano, 28, of Howell, has not been able to do that since January 2008, when her much-loved mother, Cleo, died at 56 after a two-year battle with pancreatic…

  • Pathfinders salute Borga

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Karen Borga JACKSON — Karen Borga, the former chairwoman of the Jackson Pathfinders, was honored at the March 9 meeting of the Jackson Township Council. According to its Internet website, the Jackson Pathfinders was started in 1999 by Ellen Repasy, who organized a group of area residents who were concerned…

  • Plumsted to offer mobile medical unit services

    PLUMSTED — The Mobile Medical Unit of Ocean Health Initiatives (OHI), a 501(c)(3) Federally Qualified Health Center formed in 2004 with medical offices in Lakewood and Toms River, may begin establishing mobile medical service locations in Plumsted as early as April or May, according to Mayor Ron Dancer. OHI provides primary health care for the…

  • Special event will assist local veteran

    JACKSON — The Jackson Women of Today will hold a pancake breakfast and an Easter egg hunt to support Operation One of Our Own. The breakfast, which will cost $8 for adults and $5 for children under 12, will be held at the Central Jersey Italian American Club, 36 Cpl. Luigi Marciante Jr. Memorial Drive,…

  • Quest for truth continues 147 years after Slocum murder

    Historical presentation revisits murder and trial BY PATRICIA YOCZIS On the night of July 14, 1863, in the town of Mechanicsville (now West Long Branch), Abigail Bob Waitt Sr. (l-r), Bob Waitt Jr., Joann Slocum Mazzucca and Arthur T. Green II pose for a portrait following a presentation on the murder of Abigail Slocum in…

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