by Jonathan Wood JACKSON-All one had to do was walk outside this past Saturday, take a deep breath, look at the deep blue sky and feel that it was the …
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Dey: Conflicts Are Main Cause of School Board Failures
by Phil Stiltonby Phil StiltonJACKSON-The seven-member Jackson Township School District Board of Education has run relatively low-key and successful for many years now and school board member Sharon Dey said the main reason is that …
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OCVTS Presents Peter and the Starcatcher at Grunin Center
by Your Newsby Your NewsThe Performing Arts Academy presents ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ at the Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts, Ocean County College on Friday November 17 at 7PM and Saturday …
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Voters Who Can’t Make it to the Polls Have Convenient Options in Ocean County
by Your Newsby Your NewsTHE OCEAN COUNTY Clerk’s Office and the Ocean County Board of Elections are offering extended office hours to registered voters who will not be able to go to the polls …
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Jackson Councilman: No Plan to Ban Portable Toilets After Complaint Against Orthodox
by Phil Stiltonby Phil StiltonJACKSON-The Jackson Township council has appeared to have chosen to hold it in this time when it comes to legislating behaviors associated with its growing Orthodox Jewish population. Last week, councilman …
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Manchester Twp NJ – On Friday, October 27, 2017, at approximately 10:18 am, officers from the Manchester Township Police Department responded to the area of Buckingham Drive and Thornbury Lane …
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OceanFirst Sand Angel Event Breaks Guinness World Record in Seaside Park
by Your Newsby Your NewsSEASIDE PARK– One thousand six hundred and nine people stood on a windy, but warm, sunny beach in Seaside Park, NJ in hopes to break the Guinness World Record for …
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Manchester Twp NJ – On Saturday, October 28, 2017, at approximately 6:33 p.m., officers from the Manchester Township Police Department responded to the area of Lacey Road and Lake Road …
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Manchester Twp NJ – On Friday, October 27, 2017, at approximately 12:51 pm, officers from the Manchester Township Police Department responded to the parking lot of Charlie’s Pizza, located at …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Hardest hit Sandy victims unhappy with N.J. recovery 5 years later, poll says
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, …
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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 – …
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‘I just want justice,’ says husband of woman fatally struck by off-duty cop
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 …
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New Report Shows New Jersey Is Still on the ‘Long Road Home’ After Sandy
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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Three North Jersey towns face lawsuits over alleged Orthodox Jewish discrimination
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 …
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https://www.facebook.com/OceanCountyParks/videos/1602780906445142/ Ocean County Parks and Recreation is in the middle of a preservation project on the Cedar Bridge Tavern in Barnegat. Stay tuned for updates. A full history of the …
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Freeholders Proclaim November Alzheimer’s Awareness Month
by Your Newsby Your NewsTOMS RIVER – In an effort to raise awareness that help is available for persons suffering with the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s Disease and their caregivers, the Ocean County Board …
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Murphy Vows to Reverse New Jersey Policy Barring Refugee Resettlement in Garden State
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 …