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VERONICA YANKOWSKI Juwan Jones practices his running games as the Lakewood Little Piners prepare for the 2002 Pop Warner football season. More...
Freehold Regional cracks
10,000 student plateau
6 area high schools
ready to welcome
most students ever
By dave benjamin
Staff Writer

Enrollment in the six-school Freehold Regional High School District will surpass 10,000 students for the first time when the 2002-03 school years begins on Sept. 4. More...


Jackson surpasses 9,000 pupils
Enrollment is up
900 children
since Sept. 2000
By joyce blay
Staff Writer

New programs, new facilities and new teachers will be on hand in Jackson to greet an expanding student body when the 2002-03 school year starts next week. More...


Jaguar band takes aim
at successful season
Previews James Bond
show for parents
and band alumni
By joyce blay
Staff Writer

JACKSON — Its mission was music and pageantry, which the Jackson Memorial High School Jaguar Band accomplished on the evening of Aug. 22 with a spirited performance of James Bond movie themes. More...


Improvement authority helps school board realize savings

HOWELL — The Monmouth County Improvement Authority (MCIA), Freehold, has announced the completion of its sale of $44,965,000 in revenue bonds on behalf of the Howell Board of Education, which will use the money to fund the township’s share of new school construction under the state school constructi... More...


Plumsted gets perfect audit

PLUMSTED — Mayor Ronald Dancer has announced that for the third consecutive year the township has received a perfect annual audit report of financial operations. More...


 Bulletin Board
•Advance orders taken
for Scouts’ popcorn
Cub Scout Pack 82 of Jackson, chartered by Holy Name, will be selling popcorn as part of its annual fund-raising campaign Sept. 14-15 outside of both Shop-Rite of Jackson and Jackson Super Food-town, both on County Line Road, from 10 a.m. More...
•Suspect charged with arson
•Temple to hold food drive for Rosh Hashana
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 Letters
•Regional school district should be fair when determining funding
It appears that Marlboro’s Township Council is once again seeking to contest the current tax levies for the Freehold Regional High School District. Does the council realize that property taxes only comprise 55 percent of FRHSD funding, and Marlboro’s portion of that is 24. More...
•New Egypt Flea Market still open and operating on Route 537
•Marlboro call for tax equity fails to account for state aid
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 Editorials
•2002-03 a boom time
for local school districts
As students, teachers, parents and administrators stand on the threshold of a new academic year, we are struck by some of the enrollment numbers in school districts covered by Greater Media Newspapers, which publishes the Tri-Town News and the News Transcript in western Monmouth and northern Ocean c... More...
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 Sports
•Hawks looking to make another run at NEC title
With 17 starters returning from a 7-3 team and perhaps the school’s finest recruiting class ever coming in to complement them, there is a lot to smile about at Monmouth University as head coach Kevin Callahan and the Hawks look ahead to their Sept. More...
•BlueClaws’ final home game draws an enthusiastic crowd
•Jackson baseball team off to a fast start in fall ball
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