• Bill mandating shared services draws opposition

    O’Scanlon: Amendments weaken legislation’s aim to encourage cost savings BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer EATONTOWN — Legislation that would allow the state to cut aid to municipalities that ignore recommendations to consolidate or share services is drawing opposition from local officials and the New Jersey League of Municipalities (NJLM). Bill A1172, which is currently in…

  • Sandy’s Toy Shoppe plays Santa for families impacted by storm

    FAIR HAVEN – No sooner had Margaret Spicer reopened her Fair Haven toy store following the destruction of superstorm Sandy, than she set about launching a toy drive to help families devastated by the storm with Christmas and Chanukah shopping for their children. Spicer, proprietor of Distinctive Toys in Fair Haven, solicited donations from toy…

  • Chhange opens at Brookdale Community College

    The Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education (Chhange) at Brookdale Community College would like to invite the community to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for our new Center. Please join us at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 14 when we will formally celebrate the Center’s new home adjacent to the Bankier Library on the Lincroft…

  • Nothing says the holidays like bars on the cell door

    CODA GREG BEAN I don’t know what Peter F. Burnham — the larcenous ex-president of Brookdale Community College in Lincroft — will be doing this holiday season, or the one after, but it’s a sure bet he won’t be throwing a lavish party for friends and colleagues at the Navesink Country Club with looted college…

  • Foundation offers holiday help to families impacted by Sandy

    RUMSON — The Jay Dooley Memorial Foundation of Rumson (JDMF), in partnership with the RAINE Foundation, has set a goal of raising $10,000 to help 62 Bayshore area families that were directly affected by superstorm Sandy and are in need of assistance this Christmas. “The Jay Dooley Memorial Foundation was started in my son Jay’s…

  • New interest in Old Orchard development

    Mayor: Mixed-use plan scheduled to be presented to Planning Board Jan. 21 BY NICOLE ANTONUCCI Staff Writer EATONTOWN — The new year may bring new plans for a commercial/residential development at the Old Orchard Country Club on Monmouth Road, where previous plans drew widespread opposition. Mayor Gerald Tarantolo announced at the Dec. 5 Borough Council…

  • City plans zoning changes for flood-prone areas

    Mayor: Aim is to allow residents to raise houses above flood plain BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Household items ruined by flooding caused by superstorm Sandy are set out at the curb for pickup along Atlantic Avenue in Long Branch. KENNY WALTER LONG BRANCH — City officials are planning zoning changes that would help prevent…

  • M.B. Cultural Center aims for spring reopening

    Mayor: Beach replenishment helped buffer borough from wrath of Sandy BY KENNY WALTER Staff Writer Damage to the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center from superstorm Sandy includes a detached access ramp and missing siding. Director Richard Keller estimates repairs will be completed, and the center will reopen, by March. The Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion also sustained…

  • Beyond Sandy: The new normal

    Speakers tell forum rebuilding efforts must go beyond replacing what was lost BY KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Peter Kasabach, executive director of New Jersey Future, speaks at the “Rebuilding a Resilient New Jersey Shore” conference at Monmouth University on Dec. 7. KEITH HEUMILLER In the immediate aftermath of superstorm Sandy, the future seemed a long…

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