Mid'town School May Reopen Tues. New Vaccine May Lessen Worry About Lyme Disease
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High tech Net gains Many hats St. Joseph’s teacher Holmdel Hornets roll over Keyport’s Ken Marr isn’t wins technology award Freehold Borough satisfied with just one hat Page 9 Page 35 Page 12____________ JANUARY 13, 1999 40 cents VOLUME 29, NUMBER 2 Mid’town school may reopen Tues. Port Monmouth School closed in late September for structural repairs BY M A RY D EM PSEY _______ The school was temporarily Staff Writer closed at the end of September to repair structural damage discov he reopening of Port ered when workers replaced win Monmouth Elementary dows in the building last spring. School may be as early as The closure forced the admin Tuesday.T istration to relocate the school’s A building inspector was more than 200 students through expected to look over the school out the district to other schools and issue the district a temporary during the repair work. certificate of occupancy yester After further examination of day. the building, district architects A temporary certificate of found severe deterioration of the occupancy would allow students steel supports above the window and staff to move back into the openings at the school. school by Tuesday. Schools will Repairs began in early October be closed on Monday for obser and were originally expected to be vance of the Rev. Martin Luther completed by Jan. 4. King Jr.’s birthday. The district’s plans for emer “We are prepared to move for Robin Lejda, Keyport, braves Friday’s blast of winter weather to walk along West Front Street in gency structural repair on the downtown Keyport. Augusto F. Menezes/Greater Media ward with a move over the week school were revealed in August. end if a temporary certificate of The work required removal of occupancy is issued,” district windows during the repair work, Communications Director Karen welding of steel joints, demolition Kondek said Monday. New vaccine may lessen Continued on page 8 ( * worry about Lyme disease County awaiting CDC advice on who will get protection BY LINDA D eN ICO LA_________ shaped bacterium, called a spiro Mass. Staff Writer chete, known as Borrelia “Now that a vaccine will be burgdorferi. available, at-risk individuals he first vaccine to prevent According to company litera should start getting vaccinated Lyme disease was ture, LYMErix has been proven against Lyme disease in order to approved by the U.S. effective in the prevention of begin building immunity for the TFood and Drug Administrationboth in definite Lyme disease (char upcoming Lyme disease season,” late December, but regulators acteristic symptoms with sero he said. warn that people should continue logic diagnosis) and asympto But deciding who should get to take precautions against the matic infection, which means no the vaccine may prove to be tiny ticks that carry the infection. symptoms, but serologic diagno tricky. Members of the Advisory Several pharmaceutical com sis of infection. Committee on Immunization panies have developed vaccines, “The approval of LYMErix is Practices at the federal Centers but SmithKline Beecham especially significant for people for Disease Control and Preven Biologicals, a British company who live in, or travel to, infected, tion grappled with some of the with U.S. headquarters in tick-infested areas, or people unique aspects of the vaccine, Philadelphia, Pa., is the first who enjoy outdoor activities in including the fact that the risk of company to win FDA approval. these areas,” said Dr. Vijay the disease varies greatly around The vaccine holds hope for Sikand, clinical trial investigator the country, that the vaccine preventing the multi-stage bacte and adjunct assistant professor of won’t initially be approved for Construction of a new, improved Acme Supermarket on Newman rial infection caused by the bite medicine, Tufts University children under 15 years old, that Springs Road in Lincroft is in its final stages. 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Page 22 FOG-BOUND — The three-legged Lucent Technologies water tower on Crawfords Corner Road in Holmdel looms out of the dense fog that greeted drivers Saturday morning following Friday’s snowfall. Augusto F. Menezes/Greater Media • Classifieds .......... Page 42 • Editorials .,........ Page 18 Truck rerouting worries Aberdeen • Entertainment. .Page 22 • Letters ............. Page 18 During Cooper’s Bridge work, council wants trucks permitted on GSP farther north • Marketplace . .Page 39 BY LINDA D eNICOLA In an attempt to reroute trucks that use ed that doing anything further would be • Milestones . ... .Page 20 Staff Writer the Route 35 bridge, municipalities futile. between Red Bank and Aberdeen have Mayor David Sobel defined his posi • Obituaries . ... .Page 32 ABERDEEN — The Township asked the Highway Authority to consider tion shortly after the township was noti • Police Beat . ... .Page 34 Council is worried about truck traffic allowing trucks to stay on the parkway fied of the name change. “The station is accessing the Garden State Parkway at between Aberdeen and Eatontown. the property of NJ Transit. They can • Sports ___ . .Page 35 Exit 117 during reconstruction of the The council also discussed whether to name the station anything that they want. •Yesteryear . ... .Page 15 Route 35 Cooper’s Bridge. continue to fight the naming of a new NJ Both communities tried to express why At their Monday workshop, members Transit train station currently under con the station should be named Matawan or discussed contacting the New Jersey struction in Aberdeen in light of a letter Aberdeen, but NJ Transit decided on Highway Authority, which operates the written to Gov. Christine Whitman, and both names,” he said. Phone numbers: parkway, as well as county and state legis copied to them, from former police chief Sobel also noted that, “The name Editorial 254-7000 Ext. 8226 lators, to propose letting trucks on at Exit John B. McGinty. does recognize the existence of FAX 254-0486 125 in South Amboy, just south of the The Matawan Train Station will be Aberdeen and goes a long way to giving Raritan River, instead of at Exit 117, replaced with the new facility which is support to our identity; after all, it is in Display Advertising 972-6740 which straddles the Hazlet-Aberdeen bor located on the other side of Atlantic Aberdeen. There is no other incidence of FAX 972-6746 der, an option under consideration to keep Avenue in Aberdeen. a train station not reflecting the name of truck traffic away from the bridge during After listening to arguments from offi the town it is in.” construction. cials in both towns to retain the name Using a recently adopted meeting for Classified 1-800-660-4ADS Trucks currently are prohibited on the Matawan or name the new stop the mat, the council discussed a number of Classified FAX 432-0016 parkway from Exit 105 in Eatontown Aberdeen Train Station, NJ Transit offi other items, most of which were moved north. cials finally settled on the Aberdeen- to the next regular meeting on Jan. 25. Delivery problems? Keyport officials also have expressed Matawan Train Station. They include: Call circulation at 254-1755 concern about permitting trucks on the In his letter, McGinty expresses frus • a revision to a general ordinance before noon on Thursday.