Planning Board to Hear First Financial Application Thursday

The Howell Planning Board is scheduled to meet tonight to discuss an application to bring a large investment into the township.

First Financial Federal Credit Union is applying to build a two-story building with drive thru lanes on Route 9 and two more two-story office buildings near the intersection of Route 9 North and Wyckoff Mills Road. The credit union already has a presence in the township with a branch in the Lanes Mill Shopping Center and others in neighboring Freehold and Wall but this would be a larger footprint in Howell.

The Howell Public Library is also hosting a program at the same time being called a PEAK Performance Workshop. The 60 minute event is being presented by Freehold chiropractor and nutritionist Peter Aloi and Courtney Flaherty will give tips to participants on how to fight exhaustion, aches and pains over the course of a long day.

Today’s forecast will be a little cooler than yesterday with the National Weather Service calling for a high temperature of a still warm 79 degrees on a mostly sunny day. Clouds will roll in tonight with a low of 60 before a chance of showers rolls in through Friday.

For people who love their gadgets today is Techie Day and for people who are a fan of germs it is also Virus Appreciation Day. On this date in 1990 East and West Germany announced the creation of a new unified country. President Abraham Lincoln also declared the last Thursday of November Thanksgiving Day on this date in 1863. Today also marks 62 years since Bobby Thomson hit the “Shot Heard Round the World.”

Singers Chubby Checker and Gwen Stefani are celebrating birthdays today as is civil rights leader Al Sharpton.