Jackson board taps judge for development help    Posted on 2009-05-05
Source: Ashbury Park Press
JACKSON — The Planning Board on Monday night voted to send a court-ordered approval of a 497-lot residential development back to a Superior Court judge. Board attorney Gregory P. McGuckin said the panel was looking for...... Full story...

Senate OKs nominee for Ocean tax board    Posted on 2009-05-05
Source: Ashbury Park Press
TOMS RIVER — The Ocean County Board of Taxation is no longer a one-man show. Eighteen nominees for county tax boards statewide were confirmed Monday by the state Senate, including Nick Montenegro, 66, of Point Pleasant...... Full story...

1961 sinking of Texas Tower 4 topic of lecture    Posted on 2009-05-05
Source: Ashbury Park Press
BEACH HAVEN — Expert divers Chuck Zimmaro and Tom Roach will deliver a presentation on the 1961 sinking of Texas Tower 4 off the coast of New Jersey at 7 p.m. Friday evening at the Museum of New Jersey Maritime History...... Full story...

Ocean tax panel can resume votes on appeals    Posted on 2009-05-05
Source: Ashbury Park Press
TOMS RIVER — The Ocean County Board of Taxation can resume voting on appeals by property owners who dispute new assessments after the state Senate Monday approved the appointment of a second commissioner for the panel...... Full story...

Two hurt in school bus crash    Posted on 2009-05-05
Source: Ashbury Park Press
LAKEWOOD — A school bus carrying about 30 children returning from a field trip to the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk collided with a motor vehicle near the intersection of New Hampshire Avenue and Cedar Bridge Road, resulting...... Full story...

Borough adopting 4-day workweek    Posted on 2009-05-04
Source: Ashbury Park Press
OCEAN GATE: Starting today, the Ocean Gate Municipal Building office hours will change to 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and the office will be closed Fridays, according to Mayor Paul J. Kennedy. The new schedule...... Full story...

Genealogical group sets meeting    Posted on 2009-05-04
Source: Ashbury Park Press
TOMS RIVER: The Ocean County Genealogical Society will meet Wednesday, according to the group. Featured at the meeting will be Catherine "Casey" Zahn, who will talk about strategies and how to re-evaluate research for other...... Full story...

Oyster Creek resumes normal operations    Posted on 2009-05-04
Source: Ashbury Park Press
LACEY — Normal operations resumed Sunday at the nation's oldest nuclear power plant, which had been shut down due to a failed transformer. Officials at the Oyster Creek plant had manually shut down its reactor without...... Full story...

Musical about special-needs actors at Toms River library    Posted on 2009-05-04
Source: Ashbury Park Press
TOMS RIVER: The Ocean County Library will host free performances Saturday of "Through our Eyes," a musical that tells the stories of its actors, who have special needs. The performances will take place at Mancini Hall, 101...... Full story...

Discounted Brick beach badges on sale    Posted on 2009-05-04
Source: Ashbury Park Press
hw14p IN BRICK: Beach badges and parking permits are on sale, the township Parks and Recreation Department has announced.Discounted season badges are available at the park office until June 15. The cost is $25 per badge. After...... Full story...

Modern-day pagans trying to revive Wiccan May Day festivities    Posted on 2009-05-04
Source: Ashbury Park Press
JACKSON — May Day, or Beltane, an ancient Celtic festival of fertility revived by Wiccans and neopagans alike, sprang to life again on Saturday. Members of the Sanctuary of Universal Life, a Wiccan church - danced around...... Full story...

Lecture on historic wreck Friday at Beach Haven museum    Posted on 2009-05-04
Source: Ashbury Park Press
BEACH HAVEN — Expert divers Chuck Zimmaro and Tom Roach will deliver a presentation on the 1961 sinking of Texas Tower 4 off the coast of New Jersey at 7 p.m. Friday evening at the Museum of New Jersey Maritime History...... Full story...

Berkeley opens baseball facility    Posted on 2009-05-03
Source: Ashbury Park Press
BERKELEY — After four years of planning, untold hours of fundraising and a fair share of obstacles, Berkeley Little League cut the ribbon on a brand-new indoor training facility Saturday. Featuring three batting cages...... Full story...

POLICE BRIEFS: POLICE BRIEFS    Posted on 2009-05-03
Source: Ashbury Park Press
Man, 65, charged with sex assaultBEACH HAVEN: A 65-year-old borough man was arrested Thursday on two counts of sexual assault after touching himself inappropriately in front of a mother and her three young children, police...... Full story...

Event proves pasta is more than simple spaghetti    Posted on 2009-05-03
Source: Ashbury Park Press
TOMS RIVER — Mary Ann Esposito says there's more to pasta than just spaghetti and meatballs, so she came to the stage at the Poland Spring Arena at the Ritacco Center on Saturday to prove it. The "Big Night in New...... Full story...

Brick schools chief stands by choice    Posted on 2009-05-02
Source: Ashbury Park Press
BRICK — A day after retired Brick Township High School football coach Warren Wolf took the unusual step of publicly denouncing the selection of his successor - and then rescinding his resignation - the district's...... Full story...

Masked intruder steals seniors' sense of security    Posted on 2009-05-02
Source: Ashbury Park Press
BERKELEY — On the night of April 16, Peter and Patty Morse went to bed early; they didn't hear the intruder enter their house through an unlocked door. Soon, Patty Morse, 50, awoke to see a masked man standing at...... Full story...

Lakewood tourney features game fit for a king    Posted on 2009-05-02
Source: Ashbury Park Press
LAKEWOOD — Royal tennis was played by the crown heads of Europe. It was perfected by King Henry VIII of England. In the United States, Jay Gould II, the heir to a lavish railroad fortune, became the most notable American...... Full story...

Law Day honors nation's legal tradition    Posted on 2009-05-02
Source: Ashbury Park Press
TOMS RIVER — The annual Law Day ceremony in the historic Ocean County Courthouse Court Room 1 was standing room only, and even included a speech by President Abraham Lincoln. Actually, it was actor Robert F. Costello...... Full story...

Fire marshal probes several blazes    Posted on 2009-05-02
Source: Ashbury Park Press
Investigators have been looking into the causes of several fires that happened last week along the barrier peninsula from Bay Head and Seaside Park. The cause of a smoldering fire at the Sawmill restaurant and bar in Seaside...... Full story...

Police identify driver who died in Rt. 70 crash    Posted on 2009-05-01
Source: Ashbury Park Press
MANCHESTER — Police have released the name of the driver who died in a crash on Route 70, where his pickup truck struck a tree, ejected the passenger, then caught fire. A Ford F-250, registered to Hydroscience Inc. of...... Full story...

Police: DEA impostors stop vehicle, point gun at driver    Posted on 2009-05-01
Source: Ashbury Park Press
BERKELEY — Three men and a 17-year-old boy pretending to be federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents stopped a car on Mallard Road and briefly held the driver at gunpoint before the phony agent holding the gun panicked...... Full story...

How will Berkeley cut school budget?    Posted on 2009-05-01
Source: Ashbury Park Press
BERKELEY — Will the Stokes environmental studies program be on the chopping block when school board members and the Township Council meet during a closed session Tuesday to make cuts to the failed district budget? That...... Full story...

In search of a perfect score    Posted on 2009-05-01
Source: Ashbury Park Press
STAFFORD — With an eye for perfection, Southern Regional winter guard director John Davis, watched his squad intently at the middle school gym on Wednesday. "We need a 100 percent in order to win," Davis reminded his...... Full story...

Teens soaring as Eagle Scouts    Posted on 2009-05-01
Source: Ashbury Park Press
TOMS RIVER — Steven Brandt, 16, and John L. Lesica, 17, both township residents, have joined the ranks of people such as Neil Armstrong, Bill Gates and Steven Spielberg. Brandt, a sophomore at Toms River High School East...... Full story...