• Former housing inspector pleads guilty in U.S. court

    Jeffrey Williamson, a former Lakewood housing inspector who was a state Assembly candidate in 2007, pleaded guilty on Jan. 28 to charges of extortion under color of official right and subscribing to false tax returns, admitting he accepted a total of approximately $17,500 in corrupt cash payments from a cooperating witness in return for exercising…

  • Scientist’s lecture open to public

    JACKSON — Two local chapters of the Brandeis National Committee — the Harmony Chapter and the Westlake/Jackson Chapter — will be joining other central New Jersey chapters to sponsor a fundraiser that will promote the ongoing Science for Life project. The April 8 event will be held at the Forsgate Country Club, Forsgate Drive, Monroe…

  • Committee reduces fire tax

    PLUMSTED — The Township Committee reduced the amount of property taxes to be collected in the 2010 fire district budget following a public hearing at its March 3 meeting. In the annual vote on the fire district budget, voters rejected a proposed one-half cent increase on the fire tax rate amounting to $62,647. Mayor Ron…

  • In the Service

    Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Rachel E. Hodge, daughter of Salley Hodge of Island Heights and Ernest Hodge of Jackson, graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness,…

  • Consultant’s report details many problems in buildings

    Howell municipal complex conditions are ‘medieval’ for 2010, Mayor Walsh says BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer HOWELL — No matter what township officials eventually decide to do with the aging buildings in the municipal complex off Preventorium Road, it will cost money. That is the conclusion of Accredited Environmental Technologies Inc., a Media, Pa.,…

  • Friends and family cheer airlift squadron’s return

    BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Members of the 305th Air Mobility Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst recently welcomed home 150 airmen from the 6th Airlift Squadron. Happy family reunions were the order of the day when members of the 6th Airlift Squadron returned to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in central New Jersey. DAVE BENJAMIN Throughout…

  • Immigrant experience re-created

    Experience the life of an Irish immigrant in the early 19th century at the Historic Village at Allaire on March 14 at 1 and 2 p.m. Admission is free. The Irish, one of the young nation’s largest immigrant groups, arrived on America’s shores by the tens of thousands as they escaped oppressive conditions in Ireland,…

  • No one injured on fire call

    JACKSON — At 9:31 a.m. March 5, Jackson Fire District 3, Station 55 firefighters were dispatched to a fire alarm at the offices of Cablevision, 800 Brewers Bridge Road, Jackson. According to a press release, the alarm was quickly upgraded to a second alarm after firefighters were told there was smoke inside the building that…

  • Howell PAL tapped to run kindergarten ‘wrap-around’

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer HOWELL — Administrators in the Howell K-8 School District have given the nonprofit Howell Police Athletic League (PAL) the go-ahead to begin a kindergarten wrap-around program this fall. “I would like to work with the Howell PAL to make it happen,” Superintendent of Schools Enid Golden told the Board…

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