President Donald Trump’s popular daughter Ivanka has assumed a lead role selling tax reform in small venue events across the country this fall season. That push has become all the more critical for Republicans with recent highly-publicized election losses and the Midterm cycle quickly approaching. Ivanka’s next stop? Congressman Tom MacArthur (R, NJ-03) will host the…
Happy birthday to the United States Marine Corps! There are several times throughout the year that veterans from all branches of the military are remembered — but November 10 is set aside for the United States Marine Corps, first established in 1775. Whether they go by the name of jarheads, devil dogs or leathernecks, one thing…
Town Hall Closed Friday, November 10th Veterans Day Parade Set
Winter is still a ways off, but New Jersey will be getting a bitter taste of January in November as a blast of Arctic air sweeps across our region on Friday and Saturday. A strong cold front drifting down from Canada will set the stage for sub-freezing temperatures across the entire Garden State and, in many…
BERKELEY TOWNSHIP-Republicans James Byrnes, Angelo Guadagno, Judith Noonan and Sophia
by Brick Township BRICK-Brick Mayor John Ducey hails the opening
BRICK-Brick Republicans continue making no ground in their annual effort
TOMS RIVER-Republican Ocean County Freehold Joseph Vicari defeated his latest
JACKSON-Sharon Dey, a long time school board member who narrowly
SOUTH TOMS RIVER – The president of the youth baseball league in this tiny Ocean County town was arrested Wednesday after police determined he had stolen money from the league. Police released few details of the investigation that led to the arrest of Luis M. Quiros, who is listed on the South Toms River Youth Baseball…
TOMS RIVER — A 60-year-old woman was struck and killed by a vehicle on Sunday as she and a man were crossing an intersection at Hooper and Terrace avenues, police said in a statement. Manuela Morales-Torres, of Toms River, died after being hit by the vehicle shortly before 6 p.m. while crossing the intersection with a…
HOWELL – A group of security guards who removed an unruly concertgoer at a metal music festival held at an event center on Route 9 in Howell Saturday night were attacked outside the venue, according to police. The attackers fled the area before police arrived. All four of the security guards were taken to the hospital…
BERKELEY — A benefit at a pizzeria in Bayville will raise money for the children of a 32-year-old township police sergeant who died Friday after suffering a stroke while on duty. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds at the benefit Wednesday at Tony’s Pizza will go to the children of Sgt. Alison Wray, a post on Facebook…
TOMS RIVER-Initially reported in the Lakewood Scoop, the Toms River
ONE HUNDRED YEARS ago, hundreds of men from Ocean County
LAKEWOOD-This year, the influential Lakewood VAAD, a council of Orthodox
by Al DellaFave, OCPO On November 2, 2017 at 2:48
JACKSON-Today, the Jackson Township Police Department reported a depiction of
TOMS RIVER – With more than 60,000 veterans calling Ocean
Submitted by Robert Onofrietti, Toms River School Board, Candidate 2017
MONMOUTH COUNTY — One northbound local lane on the Garden State Parkway will be closed “indefinitely” for emergency bridge repairs, officials said. The closure north of exit 109 is necessary because the span carrying the Parkway over Middletown-Lincroft Road was damaged Thursday when it was struck by a back hoe being hauled on the bed of…
TOMS RIVER — Police have filed a public nuisance complaint against a motel after police have been called to more than 750 times in less than three years to the business. Toms River police have become very familiar with the Red Carpet Inn on Water Street, responding hundreds of times for alleged drug dealing, theft, fraud,…
TRENTON – Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced that Kevin
JACKSON-The seven-member Jackson Township School District Board of Education has run
The Performing Arts Academy presents ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ at
THE OCEAN COUNTY Clerk’s Office and the Ocean County Board
JACKSON-The Jackson Township council has appeared to have chosen to
Manchester Twp NJ – On Friday, October 27, 2017, at
SEASIDE PARK– One thousand six hundred and nine people stood
HOWELL — A Howell woman badly injured when her car was rear-ended while she dropped her daughter off at school three years ago has settled her lawsuit for $2.5 million, her attorney said. The New Jersey Law Journal, which was the first to report the Sept. 11 settlement, identified the woman as Gina Peraza, now 50.…
A New Jersey town discriminated against Orthodox Jews when it barred them from a specific religious practice as part of an “archaic, fear-driven and discriminatory mindset,” a lawsuit charges. The State of New Jersey is suing the Township of Mahwah, which passed an ordinance this summer forbidding Jews from using markers to show the boundaries of…
Three New Jersey towns are being sued for legislating against the construction of an eruv in their borders. The frontrunner in the state”s gubernatorial race also criticized the towns” actions in an op-ed in a local Jewish newspaper. A few New Jersey towns on the border with New York have been trying for months to prevent…
NEW BRUNSWICK — What frays New Jerseyans’ nerves the most? Parkway traffic? Trenton politics? Family woes? No, it’s money. A new poll by the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy found 27 percent of New Jersey residents say they have a “great deal” of stress in their lives. Another 44 percent reported “some stress” in the…
More than half of the Superstorm Sandy victims that have been tracked in the five years since the storm decimated New Jersey are still dissatisfied with the state’s recovery efforts, a new poll shows. Of 432 people hit hard by the October 2012 storm who have now been interviewed four times since then, 55 percent are…
When the eye of Sandy made landfall just north of Atlantic City five years ago this Sunday, Fran Baronowitz’s neighborhood – which was a few miles away in Ventnor – suddenly turned into a lake. Water bubbled up through the air ducts of her home, and the floors buckled so much that she had trouble opening…
LONG BRANCH – When Karen Borkowski was fatally struck by a car driven by an off-duty Long Branch officer last month, she was attempting to cross the street to purchase bandages at a CVS to care for her husband. That errand embodied the kind, caring person she was, according to her husband Ed Borkowski “My wife…
On Oct. 29, 2012, hurricane Sandy devastated many communities along New Jersey’s coast. Five years later, many families have yet to recover from the storm and are still not back in their homes. A new report entitled The Long Road Home, recently published by the New Jersey Resource Project, documents the journey of Sandy-affected families who…
If the back-to-back-to-back hurricanes that slammed parts of the country earlier this autumn taught us anything, it’s that that next major storm is not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. Even as President Trump rejects the notion of climate change as just so much fake news, the most fervent deniers can see the…
Forecasters are advising drivers to avoid standing water left on roads Monday after a coastal storm making its way up the East Coast unleashed heavy rainfall in New Jersey. The National Weather Service issued flood warnings in numerous counties Sunday as heavy rain fell throughout the Garden State. More than 20 cities and towns could experience…
LAKEWOOD – A man was killed in a head-on collision Saturday night after he had fled the scene of another crash, according to police. German Alonso Velasquez Gonzalez, 41, of Toms River, was driving a 2003 Nissan Altima when he rear-ended a 2016 Nissan Sentra around 8:40 p.m. on the westbound side of Route 88 near…
Homes wrecked by Sandy still blight the landscape where the hurricane did the most damage five years ago. If not boarded houses, then places still under construction, or vacant lots, many with “for sale” signs, posted like the white flag of a homeowner who has given up. Or lost it all to a bank. In Union…
NEWARK — During an Aug. 15, 2015 meeting, Mayor Joanne Minichetti told members of the Upper Saddle River Borough Council that a local member of the Jewish community had reached a deal with a utility company to create an eruv, a demarcation of an area that under Orthodox Jewish law allows people to undertake otherwise prohibited…
https://www.facebook.com/OceanCountyParks/videos/1602780906445142/ Ocean County Parks and Recreation is in the middle
TOMS RIVER – In an effort to raise awareness that
PRINCETON — Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy said Thursday he would reverse a Gov. Chris Christie order to refuse to cooperate with the federal government in resettling refugees in New Jersey. Murphy made the statement at a campaign event with Gold Star father Khizr Khan, who gained national notoriety after his speech at the Democratic National…
Don’t forget about the Jackson Day event taking place this
