The Ocean County Parks Department will conduct the following hikes, departing from Ocean County Park, Route 88, Lakewood. The fee for all trips is $9 per person, and those ages 9 through adult are invited to attend. To register, send a check, payable to County of Ocean, to Ocean County Parks and Recreation, 1198 Bandon Road, Toms River, NJ 08753-3138. More...

Last week, Judith Carletta wrote that “Jackson dropped the ball. Tried saving money by not plowing and salting the roads” (“Explanations Sound Like Excuses to One Resident,” Tri- Town News, Letters to the Editor, Jan. 28). More...

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When we bought our old house in East Brunswick in the fall of 1997, one of the biggest selling points was the fact that we could look out our living room window to the Foerter Farm across the road. More...

JACKSON — Administrators in the Jackson School District are regrouping following the defeat of four referendum questions on Jan. 26. Residents who went to the polls in Jackson soundly defeated a quartet of proposals that would have brought various upgrades to Jackson schools. More...

Doug Hamann returned to the lineup from a bout with mononucleosis, but the Jackson Memorial High School wrestling team could not stop Long Branch from becoming the first Monmouth County school to win three straight Shore Conference Tournament championships as the Jaguars fell to the Green Wave, 29-23, on Jan. 30. More...