Jacob Jeremy Jackson, the combative publisher and editor of The Asbury Times-Gazette, one of the town's two weekly newspapers, was a life-long resident of Asbury who was known to friend and foe alike as JJ. A rotund man of average height with a jolly face that belied his gruff nature, he had been with the paper in one capacity or another for forty-eight of his sixty-four years. He started as a gopher for publisher Donald Baker while just a skinny high school junior, and advanced through the ranks until he inherited the business upon the death of the childless Baker in 1968. Since that time, he ran The Times-Gazette with a tight-fisted, no-nonsense, the-truth-at-all-cost policy. JJ and his wife Sandy have been married for forty-one years.
Copyright 2005 by Bill Dolack