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News from the Lakewood, Jackson, Toms River, Howell and Brick Township area and the surrounding Klal Yisroel community.

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Student stabbed during fight at Cross Street yeshiva in Lakewood

December 9, 2022

Want to serve your community? Jackson mayor asking for volunteers

December 7, 2022

Lakewood community calls for county worker’s job after more than four-year-old skit mocking Jews surfaces

December 6, 2022

Firework thrown at Jewish pedestrian by passing SUV in Lakewood

December 4, 2022

Man reported missing in Lakewood found dead inside car

December 2, 2022

Toms River Intermediate East - Toms River, NJ

Canadian teen linked to swatting incidents at New Jersey middle school

November 30, 2022

Jackson Township Police Department.

Toms River burglary suspect caught in Jackson

November 27, 2022

Police units were dispatched to the intersection of Ocean View Drive and Brookside Drive for a reported motor vehicle accident.

Drunk driver charged after driving into concrete wall

November 27, 2022

On Monday, November 20, 2022, at approximately 11:35 PM, police and fire units were dispatched to Frann Road for a reported motor vehicle accident involving a vehicle into a house.

Impaired driver crashes through front door of Toms River home, into living room

November 21, 2022

What’s open? What’s closed at Toms River township Thanksgiving week

November 19, 2022

Toms River police searching for bank fraud, hit and run suspect

November 17, 2022

On November 8, 2022 Detective Purtell was in the area of the Jackson Premium Outlets following up on an unrelated investigation while also working a plain clothed detail to combat the rise in shoplifting that the outlets are experiencing.

Florida man caught passing counterfeit bills at Jackson Premium Outlets

November 16, 2022

New Jersey Senator John Bramnick.

Jackson Councilman calls for mandate on English language, slams Bramnick’s grief mandate

November 16, 2022

Muslim arrested for attack threats against Synagogues in New Jersey

November 10, 2022

Chris Smith

Chris Smith easily defeats Democrat challenger in New Jersey’s 4th Congressional District

November 9, 2022

Jackson Mayor Michael Reina, Councilmembers-elect Scott Sargent and Jennifer Kuhn

Mayor Michael Reina wins re-election in contentious Jackson Township election

November 9, 2022

Testa blames Phil Murphy, Democrats’ soft-on-crime policy for rising New Jersey crime wave

November 8, 2022

Jackson Township Councilman Marty Flemming speaks with Lakewood Developer Mordechai Eichorn and Jackson VAAD leader Mordechai Burnstein at a campaign fundraiser held at Eichorn's golf course.

Flemming to oppose plan to stop private school development on Leesville Road, schools will be built

November 7, 2022

On 11/5/2022 at 0059 hrs. multiple Fire and Police units were dispatched to 1400 Dahlia Court for a report of a structure fire.

Jackson man suffered critical burns in Sixty Acres fire

November 6, 2022

New Jersey man arrested for credible threat against synagogues

November 5, 2022

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Charlie Dwyer
Charlie Dwyer is our New Jersey area news reporter. Dwyer reports on New Jersey news and events at the shore and beyond. Charlie covers New Jersey regional news. Charlie is a freelancer working for Shore News Network under a pen name.