• Firefighters earn stripes in course

    JACKSON — Three firefighters from the Cassville Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 have graduated from the Ocean County Fire and EMS Training Center in Waretown. Cassville Chief John I. Alchevsky said, “On Jan. 27 graduation ceremonies were held for firefighters Robert Avilla, Jean- Paul Bergeron and Anthony Riso of the Cassville Volunteer Fire Company No.…

  • Mammogram frequency stirs debate

    Radiologist reviews, contradicts findings of U.S. task force BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Areport addressing routine mammogram screening for breast cancer detection that was released on Nov. 17, 2009, by the United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) has spurred much debate.   Interventional radiologist Dr. Kenneth Tomkovich discusses the findings of a task force…

  • Enrollment continues to slide, BOE prez says

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Administrators in the Howell K-8 School District have no plans to close any more schools, despite a continuing trend of declining enrollment. District administrators closed the 50- year-old Southard School in 2009 due to declining enrollment. Pupils who would have attended Southard School during the 2009- 10 school year…

  • Dog park may still be a possibility

    Howell ‘under the gun’ to use matching grant by June, official says BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer Howell officials are taking a wait-andsee stance on a proposed dog park off Easy Street in Howell. Township officials had planned to build the dog park at the Bonim recreational facility with a $169,000 matching grant from…

  • NJSIAA Group IV

    Jackson Memorial High School wrestling coach Doug Withstandley (second from right) and the rest of the Jaguars celebrate after winning the NJSIAA Group IV state team championship over Hunterdon Central, 38-19, on Feb. 14 at the Ritacco Center in Toms River. For more photos, visit GMN Photo Galleries at www.gmnews.com. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • After storm column, some readers ask, ‘Where funny?’

    Coda • GREG BEAN I’ll say this for myself: when I make a mistake, it’s a doozy. Regular readers will remember that last week, I spent a lot of time making fun of the hysterical media build-up to the storm they were calling the “Snowpocalypse,” which turned out to be kind of a dud, at…

  • Writer wants Ocean County freeholders to dip into surplus funds

    On Feb. 3 at the public portion of the Ocean County Board of Freeholders meeting, I called upon Freeholder John Bartlett to eliminate the proposed $8 million-plus increase in county taxation by taking $9 million from the proposed $17 million plus county surplus. Freeholder Bartlett declared that he would not do that. It is now…

  • Help is available for teenagers who are in a tough situation

    On Jan. 28 the U.S. Senate passed a resolution designating February as National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. This is an important acknowledgment of a situation that deserves the community’s full attention. It has never been more difficult to be a teenager on the dating scene. The very means of communication that help…

  • New Jersey racetracks need slots right now

    However you look at it, the state of New Jersey must allow the installation of slot machines at our horse racing tracks. We must catch up with surrounding state competition and install these slot machines at once or face doing nothing and losing our state’s horsemen’s futures, open space, farmland and other agriculture jobs, revenue…

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