Month: January 2010

Group wants historic character of span preserved BY KIMBERLY STEINBERG Staff Writer The Friends of the Oceanic Bridge Association is urging residents to reach out to county, state and federal officials regarding the future of the 70-year-old historic bridge connecting Rumson and the Locust section of Middletown. Oceanic Bridge At a meeting on Dec.15 at…

Data: Recovery under way after unemployment peaked in July BY TOM SHORTELL Staff Writer Monmouth County workers are still feeling the brunt of the 2008 economic collapse, as the county’s latest unemployment rate is 3.2 percent higher than it was 12 months earlier. An estimated 28,666 workers residing in the county were without jobs in…

OCEAN TOWNSHIP — A former township resident has been indicted on charges that he misappropriated $1 million in funds belonging to a client of his investment firm. According to a press release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, a Monmouth County grand jury returned an indictment Jan. 4 charging Samuel S. Franco, 58, of Brooklyn,…

Council will decide whether to bond for other upgrades BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The Monmouth County Board of Freeholders has awarded the borough a grant that will make one of its parks accessible to children with special needs. Awarded late last month by the freeholders, the $175,000 Open Space Trust Fund grant…

LONG BRANCH — Robert “Bob” G. Krebs isn’t happy that his house is in one of Long Branch’s redevelopment zones, and he’s decided to do something about it: run for mayor. His platform is simple: “Give everybody in town their property rights back,” he said in an interview last week. “All these people are tied…

BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Sebastian Tomaine stepped up and ran for fire chief in Long Branch and in the process made department history. Pictured at the Long Branch Fire Department organization meeting Jan. 1 are First Assistant Chief Alfred Sico (l-r), Chief of Department Sebastian M. Tomaine, Second Assistant Chief Harold “Buster” Bentley. Tomaine,…

$3 million supports N.J. Technology Solutions Center BY DANIEL HOWLEY Staff Writer The federal government has awarded $3 million to seed an initiative aimed at stemming the potential “brain drain” of highly skilled workers resulting from the closure of Fort Monmouth. The Department of Defense funding will promote the New Jersey Technology Solutions Center’s mission…

Sixth-grader Isabelle deAbreu spells a word on her way to winning the annual spelling bee at Margaret Vetter School in Eatontown on Jan. 6. ERIC SUCAR staff