Tag: Jackson
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Jackson Trails application fails to gain approval from Jackson planners
JACKSON – An applicant’s plan to construct 459 residential units and a house of worship on South Hope Chapel Road, Jackson, has failed to pass muster with the Jackson Planning Board. When asked to reconsider the Jackson Trails application during a meeting on Dec. 2, no one on the board made a motion to do…
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Two Jackson residents facing drug charges
JACKSON – On Dec. 5, Jackson police detectives and officers who are forming a special enforcement unit in the Detective Bureau concluded an ongoing narcotics investigation and conducted a stop of a 2011 Infiniti sport utility vehicle and its two occupants in a commercial parking lot on North County Line Road. Police said a search…
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Switlik Elementary School unveils new model classroom
JACKSON – Everyone knows children have energy. They get restless. They like to move around. Educators at the Switlik Elementary School in Jackson figured out how to work with this part of childhood development, instead of against it. In doing so, the school earned a competitive $10,000 grant from the OceanFirst Foundation’s model classroom grant…
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Jackson resident builds Gaga pit for Eagle Scout service project
JACKSON – Students at the Lucy N. Holman Elementary School are going “gaga” over the newest edition to their playground–all thanks to a former student. Joseph Kane is in 10th grade now, but not long ago he was a fifth-grader at Holman. Joseph is a Boy Scout and when it came time for him to…
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Jackson School District’s elementary science curriculum earns award
JACKSON – When it comes to creating an innovative and engaging program that allows students of differing abilities to thrive, it turns out there is a “science’’ to it. That is why the Jackson School District’s elementary science curriculum recently earned the School Leader Award for Outstanding Program from the New Jersey School Boards Association…
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Former sports league officials plead guilty to theft
JACKSON – Two former officials of the Holbrook Little League have pleaded guilty to stealing $126,000 from the youth baseball organization in Jackson. On Dec. 2, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that Anthony Del Vecchio, 64, and John Lehman, 56, both of Jackson, pleaded guilty to theft by unlawful taking. Billhimer said a…
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Jackson officials seek residents to serve on boards
JACKSON – Mayor Michael Reina and the Township Council are seeking residents who want to serve their community. The following advisory boards, commissions and committees currently exist in Jackson: Veterans Commission, Rent Leveling Board, Planning Board, Zoning Board of Adjustment, Economic Development Commission, Citizens Budget Advisory Committee, Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board, Jackson Pathfinders, Environmental…
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Jackson council president resigns; successor will serve through 2020
JACKSON – Rob Nixon, who had been serving as president of the Jackson Township Council, announced his resignation from the governing body during its meeting on the evening of Nov. 26. Nixon had one year (2020) remaining in his current four-year term. Nixon delivered his letter of resignation to the municipal clerk after the meeting…
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Jackson police seek public’s assistance in two investigations
JACKSON – The Jackson Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in the wake of two incidents which occurred over the weekend of Nov. 23-24. At 9:36 p.m. Nov. 23, police officers responded to the Lucky 7 Seven Deli, Whitesville Road, to investigate a report of an active alarm. Once at the scene, the officers…
