Hundreds of flights have been cancelled at New Jersey, Philly and New York airports due to a powerful nor’easter making its way through the area packing wind gusts up to 60 mph and heavy rain. As of 7:50 a.m., Newark Liberty International Airport had 132 cancellations, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking service. There were hundreds…
An Essex County man who was arrested last month with more than 8 kilos of cocaine and a loaded AK-47 may be released from jail Friday if the state appellate court doesn’t render a decision on an appeal filed by prosecutors hoping to keep him locked up. Rasheed Sanders, 37, of East Orange, was arrested inside…
Mayor John G. Ducey and the Township Council presented checks
TOMS RIVER-Mayor Thomas Kelaher welcomed Downtown Toms River’s newest retail
The Toms River North girls bowling team has simply been
The Maccabeats Hamlisch & Sondheim: Donna McKechnie & Andrea McArdle. Two legendary musical theater stars — Donna McKechnie and Andrea McArdle — team up for this evening devoted to the inimitable songs of Marvin Hamlisch and Stephen Sondheim. $50-70. March 10, 6 and 8:30 p.m. NJPAC, Newark, njpac.org, 888-GO-NJPAC “From Bima to Broadway.” Celebrating 30 years…
Michael Miniere passed away on Monday at St. Peter’s University Medical Center in New Brunswick at the age of 72. Mr. Miniere was born in Plainfield and lived in Hagerstown, Maryland and Toms River before moving to Kendall Park 22 years ago. He graduated from Plainfield High School and achieved a Bachelor’s of Science in Mathematics…
If you want the best doughnuts in the Garden State, Thrillist says you need to head down to the Jersey Shore. The popular food site recently published with its 31 best doughnuts shops in America, and Uncle Dood’s Donuts in Toms River was the lone New Jersey spot to make the list. Thrillist praised Uncle Dood’s…
Rob O’Neill, the former Navy SEAL who claimed to have killed terrorist Osama bin Laden, was thrown out of an American Airlines plane Sunday after officials thought he was too drunk to fly. According to a TMZ report Monday, the jet was due to travel to Dallas in Nashville. TMZ reported that before the plane took…
JACKSON-Jackson Valley was once a proposed 958 unit age-restricted community,
Reports on Facebook and Twitter are trending. A “huge monster”
by Virginia Aparicio Little Egg Harbor, NJ – To honor
Norway’s ‘doomsday’ seed bank, which seeks to protect the world’s crops from natural disasters, on Monday said it had gathered more than a million varieties as it marked its 10-year anniversary. Dubbed the “Noah’s Ark” of food crops, the Global Seed Vault is located deep inside a mountain on Svalbard, a remote Arctic island in a…
A passenger who said he boarded the wrong United Airlines flight exited the plane in an unconventional way — by opening the emergency door and zipping down the inflatable chute. Troy Fattun, 25, made the mad dash off flight 1640, according to NBCNewYork.com He was arrested by Port Authority police when after he reached the ground.…
The state performed well for its first year of criminal justice reform, according to the New Jersey judiciary, but key data is missing from the report and the picture is incomplete. To keep the program successful, the state is going to need to spend more money and provide more services, noted the report issued by the…
(ABOVE: Because of New Jersey’s outmoded laws, Hoboken has a bar one every block while many suburban towns have almost no places to drink.) I was driving past a strip mall in Brick Township that is now half-empty because a supermarket closed. My goal was another strip mall in Toms River that is now half-empty, also…
The council is scheduled for a public hearing at its 6 p.m. meeting Tuesday at Town Hall, which could be followed by a vote on second reading of an ordinance that would, “establish prohibitions on the sale, dispensation, and cultivation of marijuana in the Township of Toms River.” The measure was approved 6-0 with one abstention…
JACKSON-Jackson Township officials have lost their case against a man
Ocean County today announced updates to several Jackson Township road
In the year before he went missing in choppy waters 40 miles off the coast of Barnegat, Paul Alexandre Matos bought a house, had a daughter and got licensed to commercially fish on his own boat. He had been working as a fisherman for other people, said his girlfriend, Amy Romano, but he decided last summer…
Toms River Schools TV recently conducted an interview with former
TRENTON-A report out of Trenton tonight has left millions of
JACKSON-Some Orthodox Jewish residents of Jackson Township will soon
Todd Frazier is staying in New York. After a brief stay in the Bronx, Frazier will play in Flushing this upcoming season after agreeing to terms on a two-year, $17-million contract with the Mets, according to sources. The deal is pending a physical, and The Athletic first reported the deal. Frazier became a fan favorite with…
TOMS RIVER-With a new governor in the Statehouse, Ocean County’s
A team of astrophysicists has discovered the first planet population outside the Milky Way. Image of the gravitational lens RX J1131-1231 galaxy with the lens galaxy at the center and four lensed background quasars. It is estimated that there are trillions of planets in the center elliptical galaxy in this image. Image credits: University of Oklahoma.…
by Kristen Fitzgerald, SFTP JACKSON-Six Flags Great Adventure and its
Some Democratic mayors of America’s sanctuary cities boycotted today’s meeting
On January 23rd at 10:40 pm police and fire units
JACKSON-An Orthodox Jewish resident of Jackson has filed a lawsuit
A battle for control of the historic Hereford Inlet Lighthouse in North Wildwood is pitting the local government against a nonprofit group that claims credit for helping restore the landmark. The city shut the group out of the 144-year-old Victorian mansion built around an imposing, wooden lighthouse tower at the end of November after changing the…
by Jean Sullivan TOMS RIVER-The Ocean County Foundation for Vocational
BERKELEY-Berkeley Township has officially opposed the federal government’s plan for
Berkeley Township has received approval from the State of New
MIDDLETOWN, NJ – Middletown-Lincroft Road, over Comptons Creek, is expected to
HOWELL-A large solid waste management facility to be built on Randolph Road
JACKSON-Residents took to social media during January’s winter storm to
This week, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection issued
JACKSON-The Ocean County engineer has provided an update to ongoing
Despite its scenic Jersey Shore beaches, mountain destinations, pinelands and
BRICK-The Brick Council on Tuesday voted in favor of an
JACKSON-The Jackson Municipal Utility Authority has awarded their 2017 grants
By Todd Malland, MPD MANCHESTER-A transformer fire at a Whiting
On January 12th 2017 at approximately 1215 pm Patrolman Brian
