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Town may face another year of difficult choices
Howell Mayor Robert Walsh welcomes residents’ input as 2010 budget is developed BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer HOWELL — The start of a new year is usually a time for fresh starts and new possibilities, but for Howell and many other municipalities it is a time to wrap up unresolved issues and revisit the financial…
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Councilwoman still has passion for town
Pauline Smith wants careful review of municipal spending in Howell this year BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Pauline Smith HOWELL — Even though Republican Pauline Smith was sworn in to office as a member of the Howell Township Council a mere two months ago, the town’s newest councilwoman already knows a few things about sitting…
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Teen was in the right place at right time
Chance meeting with agent on New Jersey Turnpike leads to modeling work BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Some girls dream about being discovered by a modeling scout and launched on the road to supermodel stardom. Nicolette Wall, 15, of the New Egypt section of Plumsted, never seriously thought about modeling, although many family members and…
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District pursues tenants for Southard School
Howell Township Council backs out of plan to move offices to shuttered school BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Administrators from the Howell K-8 School District will be seeking out lease and purchase proposals for the Southard School now that the Howell Township Council has pulled its interest in leasing the facility as a new town…
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Board seeks voters’ OK for multiple school projects
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer Ahost of school improvement projects will be up for voter approval during a special referendum to be held by the Jackson Board of Education on Jan. 26. Polls will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Any one of the four proposed questions may be approved independent of the…
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With the help of his uncle, Lance Tremmel (r), and instructor Joe Youller, Dylan Cannata, 5, of Jackson, pulls in a trout while Destiny Caggiano, 9, hopes for a nibble at the 26th Garden State Outdoor Sportsmen’s Show held at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center, Edison, on Jan. 16. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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To turn alarm off, throw entire clock against wall
Coda • GREG BEAN If there’s anything more frustrating than trying to follow a procedure manual for a product that was built in a non-Englishspeaking country and then translated into the King’s Own by someone with a limited grasp of our language, I don’t know what it is. Back in the day when I didn’t…
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Retired officers could be a valuable resource on airplanes
As politicians scramble to point the blame as to how the latest terrorist slipped through the security measures that were implemented to protect Americans and foreigners abroad, I would like to bring to their attention a more common sense solution to tightening up those cracks and bring forth what is in my opinion a better,…
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Resident was pleased with Jackson’s response to Dec. 19 snowstorm
In response to a letter that was published in the Tri-Town News on Dec. 24, 2009, “Resident Says Jackson Officials Failed Residents,” can it be possible that the writer wants to oust elected officials because he got a busy signal on the snow removal line? I have to remark that even though we were denied…
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