Mayor Ducey, Councilwoman Heather deJong and Councilman Paul Mummolo were
Five Members of the Brick Township Police EMS are currently
NEPTUNE — Officials on Saturday identified the two people found shot to death in a vehicle in Neptune. Township police were called to reports of two shooting victims around 4:30 p.m. Friday in the 500 block of Sayre Street, where they found Frantz Paraison 37, of Neptune, and Shaezeel Collins, 37, of Toms River. They were…
Attending Holy Rosary Grammar School and going to Holy Rosary Church in Jersey City meant that as a child I prayed the rosary – a lot. We’d say the rosary in the classroom, have rosary rallies and pray all 15 decades of the rosary at all-night vigils in church. The rosary has a kind of sing-song…
NEW BRUNSWICK — A man described by police as affiliated with Rutgers University was assaulted by several people at a party Saturday, authorities said. The attack occurred at 5:20 p.m. on Delafield Street between Courtland and Bristol streets near the university’s College Avenue campus, Rutgers police said. The man told police he was at a party…
TOMS RIVER — The flood in the Ocean County Justice Complex caused when an inmate flushed a jumpsuit down the toilet will cost taxpayers at least $100,000, according to a report on APP.com. In all, officials will spend about $2 million to install “low-flow” toilets that can be flushed only once per hour. Corrections officers will…
TOMS RIVER – A township police officer who was seriously injured in a crash with a tractor-trailer while off-duty in January died on Friday, the department announced. Patrolman Brett Hansen, a member of the Toms River Police Department since 2015, died from the extensive injuries he suffered in the crash, according to an announcement on the…
TOMS RIVER — Thousands of people may have had sensitive personal information exposed to hackers in a data breach at the Toms River Police Department headquarters, according to a report. The township now plans to notify about 3,700 people potentially affected by the breach, APP.com reported. Officials first became alerted to a potential issue in early…
Despite the efforts of the mainstream media to paint a
TOMS RIVERS – Six Lakewood residents charged in a government benefits fraud sweep in June have applied for a pre-trial program for first-time offenders that would allow them to avoid conviction, according to a report. The six defendants – Tzvi and Estee Bruan; Samuel and Esther Serhofer; and Yisroel and Rachel Merkin – are each charged…
TOMS RIVER-Democrat backed school board members Michael Horgan, Steve Kaczala
SEASIDE PARK — A 44-year-old Seaside Park woman who died on Sunday after she went swimming with her boyfriend was remembered as an “incredible inspiration” with a “big heart.” Joell Lanfrank was swimming in the ocean with her boyfriend off the O Street beach in Seaside Park when she “experienced some type of distress,” police Chief…
Jack Gindi, center, with Joe Grillo, left and Vin Gopal at Congressman Frank Pallone’s 2014 campaign kickoff. Photo via facebook A West Long Branch couple with ties to State Senate candidate Vin Gopal, and two of their Monmouth County based companies have been enjoined from distributing their unapproved injectable skin whitening drugs and other drugs in…
JACKSON-Jackson Township Councilman Barry Calogero attended this month’s “Meet the
TRENTON-We’ve all heard stories about old laws being on the
Toms River Regional School District has issued a 23-page booklet
The secret to climate-friendly cattle. Moo-ve over, methane Pixabay Raising cattle contributes to global warming in a big way. The animals expel large amounts of methane when they burp and fart, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide. U.S. beef production, in fact, roughly equals the annual emissions of 24 million cars, according…
One in 12 global deaths over a five-year period can be prevented through 30 minutes of physical activity — which can include house-cleaning or walking to work — five days a week, researchers said Friday. “Being highly active (750 minutes a week) is associated with an even greater reduction,” according to a study published in The…
President Donald J. Trump hosts a dinner Monday evening, September
A U.S. Army general explained to NFL players indirectly why
by Sarah Huckabee Sanders A COMMITMENT TO THE AMERICAN WORKFORCE:
by Kellyanne Conway, Tom Price WASHINGTON,DC– What do the leafy
A New Jersey man who developed lung disease after working around Ground Zero following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been awarded $369,000, according to a report. James Delman, now 63, of Toms River, received the payment from the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund last month, NJLawJournal.com said. A locksmith and carpenter for the Metropolitan Transportation…
Mayor Carmen Amato, Council members John Bacchione, Sophia Attanasio Papa Gingrich and Judith Noonan and
BREKELEY-Mayor Carmen Amato wants to let all senior residents know
by Toms River Township TOMS RIVER-As part of a national
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Just as Hurricane Harvey wrapped up its devastation of Houston, Irma got into line behind it and quickly built into the strongest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history. Now, the Category 5 storm Maria leaves behind widespread destruction on the Caribbean island of Dominica, and it’s now taking aim at Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.…
TOMS RIVER-Nino’s Coal Fired Restaurant in Toms River this week
Photo: Democrat gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy at a recent visit
TOMS RIVER-A letter from the Toms River Police Department wishing
Amazon.com is being accused of deleting negative reviews of Hillary
A report in the Star Ledger today said New Jersey Democrat Phil Murphy wants to provide New Jersey residents with free college tuition if he becomes governor of New Jersey in two months. It’s as if Democrats in the most taxed state in the United States are playing a game of “break the bank” with the taxpayers. Does New Jersey need more government spending? Murphy, the billionaire one percenter representing the Democrats in New Jersey, apparently thinks we do.
TRENTON — Democratic nominee for governor Phil Murphy on Monday formally announced a plan to offer tuition-free community college to all New Jerseyans. “We simply do not have the workforce that we need,” said Murphy, standing on the sidewalk of the Trenton Junior College & School of Industrial Arts and flanked by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker,…
NEWARK — A city police officer has been suspended without pay after being arrested last week — the third time he has been arrested in the last two years. Peter Chirico, a 21-year veteran of the Newark police department, was arrested in the early morning hours of Sept. 11 on aggravated assault charges stemming from a…
Brick, NJ – Hackensack Meridian Health Ocean Medical Center celebrated the grand opening
STONE HARBOR – Big waves and rip currents at the Jersey Shore from recent storms in the Atlantic Ocean were no match for a pod of dolphins earlier this week. The dolphins dazzled onlookers at the 102nd Street beach in Stone Harbor on Tuesday afternoon as they leaped and played in the swells. Cape May County…
LAKEWOOD–Earlier this month, the office of the New Jersey comptroller announced a new program to address the problem of Medicaid fraud in Ocean County. The pilot program gives Ocean County residents 90 days to come forward if they have either purposely or inadvertently received unwarranted Medicaid benefits. These residents will be able to avoid criminal prosecution…
TRENTON — Amid whistles, cowbells and shouts from opponents, the proposal of a controversial cross-state pipeline cleared its last major hurdle Thursday as it received the blessing of New Jersey’s Pinelands Commission. The Southern Reliability Link, a 28-mile long, $180 million natural gas pipeline proposed by New Jersey Natural Gas, was approved by the Pinelands Commission…
JACKSON — The Orthodox Jewish community in Jackson won’t be allowed to construct an eruv after the township council voted Wednesday to change a local ordinance, according to a report on APP.com. Without an eruv, a symbolic boundary often comprised of PVC pipe and wire placed on utility poles, Orthodox Jews are not permitted to carry…
Details emerged today from inside Newark Airport about the dark
As Mayor, Mike Reina has the privilege of recognizing many
The events of Sept. 11, 2001, gave way to countless stories of tragedy, desperation and pain. They also also gave way to stories of bravery and unity. Amid the rubble and devastation of a terrorist attack that changed this country forever were people helping each other and first responders running toward certain danger. The country will…
PHOENIX, September 11, 2017 – Sixteen years after the worst terrorist attack of this century, Americans pay tribute to the fallen. We remember that even during those darkest ensuing days, there were plenty of heroes. Much has been said of President George W. Bush and America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani. What they did mattered, but plenty of…
For Ely Ross, giving back to military veterans in the nation’s capital is personal. Ross, who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1998, completed tours in Iraq and Southeast Asia before leaving the service in 2008 and enrolling in law school. Now the director of veterans affairs the mayor of Washington, D.C., Ross and other volunteers…
Modern lifestyles are at war with the way our bodies evolved to function. It is 7 p.m. on a spring Friday, and the Highland Hospital emergency room in Oakland, one of the busiest trauma centers in northern California, is expecting. When the patient—a young bicyclist hit by a car—arrives, blood is streaming down his temples. From…
Joe Rullo, an actor from Ocean County who most recently ran for Governor of New Jersey has shown up in a New York Yankees commercial. Rullo can be seen in the commercial showing a child the skyline of Manhattan. The commercial is part of the Yankees’ sales marketing promotion.
The Yankees are now in a heated race with the Boston Red Sox, just 3 1/2 games behind with just a few weeks left in the season.
Surrounded by family and friends, members of the Summer 2017
New organization’s first of many unique “blueprints” intends to expedite and simplify sustainable recovery for home owners TOMS RIVER, N.J., Sept. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Compass 82, a new national nonprofit organization, is leveraging its extensive experience in fast-tracking disaster recovery to introduce its initiative to simultaneously expedite sustainable recovery for homeowners affected by Hurricane Harvey’s…
JACKSON-In recent months, many of Jackson’s streets have been dug
