Tag: Hazlet
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JCP&L proposes electric service enhancements
By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer RED BANK – Jersey Central Power and Lighting (JCP&L) has proposed enhancing service and modernizing the electrical system in Monmouth County with a $75 million project to add a third transmission line between Red Bank and Aberdeen. The proposal, which is dubbed the Monmouth County Reliability Project, will include a…
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Chelsea Clinton campaigns in Monmouth County
By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer LONG BRANCH – Before New Jerseyans head to the polls for the June 7 primary, Chelsea Clinton, daughter of presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton, met with Monmouth County residents. On May 17, the last day for residents to register to vote in the primary, Clinton campaigned for her mother, the…
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Hazlet’s school district approves budget
The Hazlet Township Board of Education approved the 2016-2017 School District Operating Budget at its recent Board of Education Public Hearing. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Bernard F. Bragen Jr. and School Business Administrator Christopher Mullins began the April 25 budget presentation by reviewing the district’s vision and main budgetary objectives. Bragen indicated that the ultimate…
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Local theaters to show film based on veterans’ struggles
“The War Comes Home: The New Battlefront” will be screened at several local movie theaters on May 24. The film follows the journeys of young veterans Delon Beckett and Garrett Combs, and their personal battles of the wars that came home with them. For both men, within months of returning, their relationships were crumbling, their children were…
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Hazlet adopts municipal budget
By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer HAZLET — The Township Committee has unanimously adopted a $21.2 million budget that reflects a zero percent increase on the municipal purposes tax levy. Chief Financial Officer Thomas O’Hara said that the total budget for this year is $21,189,749.76. When the budget was first introduced in early April, O’Hara…
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Students encouraged to avoid drugs, pursue a natural high
By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer HAZLET — Raritan High School students were encouraged to say “no” to drugs and to pursue what makes them most happy in life. That was the theme during an assembly at the school on May 4 when NFL running back Donald Brown, who grew up in the area, delivered…
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Hazlet to welcome new above-ground pool business
By KAYLA J. MARSH Staff Writer HAZLET — At Home Recreation, LLC is holding a grand opening of its fourth store at 370 Route 36 in Hazlet. The company, owned and operated by the Ventrice family, who owned Branch Brook Co. from 1938 to 2005, returns to the township after more than 30 years. During…
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Hazlet to sponsor two NYC bus trips
Hazlet Recreation has announced bus trips to New York to see a Broadway play in April and a baseball game in July. A bus will depart from Hazlet Library, 251 Middle Road, at 11 a.m. April 30 for the 2 p.m. performance of “Something Rotten” at St. James Theatre. The cost is $116 per person…
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Hazlet introduces $21.2 million budget
By Kayla J. Marsh Staff Writer HAZLET – Township officials have introduced a $21.2 million budget that reflects a zero percent increase on the municipal purposes tax levy. At an April 5 Township Committee meeting, Chief Financial Officer Thomas O’Hara said that the introduced total budget of for this year is $21,189,749.76. O’Hara said the…
