Tag: Colts Neck

  • Colts Neck officials considering police station upgrades

    Colts Neck officials considering police station upgrades

    COLTS NECK – Municipal officials are contemplating the future home of the Colts Neck Police Department and municipal court, which are currently operating in a building the mayor has called “obsolete.” Colts Neck’s police department and municipal court share a building next to town hall on Cedar Drive. During the July 12 meeting of the…

  • Colts Neck prepares to deal with emerald ash borer

    Colts Neck prepares to deal with emerald ash borer

    COLTS NECK – The Township Committee is exploring its options in regard to dealing with an invasive species of insect called the emerald ash borer. The invasive tree pest originated in Asia and was first found in the United States in 2002 in Michigan. Since then the emerald ash borer has spread east and has …

  • Hundreds attend service for Marine from Colts Neck

    Hundreds attend service for Marine from Colts Neck

    COLTS NECK – Several hundred people made their way to Colts Neck High School on the overcast morning of July 25 to pay their respects to U.S. Marine Cpl. Daniel I. Baldassare. Baldassare, 20, was among 15 Marines and one Navy sailor who died when the military plane on which they were traveling crashed in…

  • Hundreds attend service for Marine from Colts Neck

    Hundreds attend service for Marine from Colts Neck

    COLTS NECK – Several hundred people made their way to Colts Neck High School on the overcast morning of July 25 to pay their respects to U.S. Marine Cpl. Daniel I. Baldassare. Baldassare, 20, was among 15 Marines and one Navy sailor who died when the military plane on which they were traveling crashed in…

  • Colts Neck to ask residents to approve open space tax increase

    Colts Neck to ask residents to approve open space tax increase

    COLTS NECK – The Colts Neck Township Committee has voted to put a public question on the Nov. 7 ballot and ask residents to approve an increase in the municipal open space tax rate. On July 12, committee members passed a resolution to ask voters to approve an increase in the municipal open space tax…

  • Colts Neck mourns death of Marine killed in crash

    Colts Neck mourns death of Marine killed in crash

    The community of Colts Neck is mourning the death of a U.S. Marine from the township who was among 15 Marines and one Navy sailor who died when a military plane crashed in Mississippi on the afternoon of July 10. Cpl. Daniel I. Baldassare, 20, graduated from Colts Neck High School in 2015. He was…

  • Affordable Housing Alliance held golf and track outing

    Affordable Housing Alliance held golf and track outing

    On June 23, the Affordable Housing Alliance held the Spring House Invitational Golf and Track Outing at Pebble Creek Golf Club in Colts Neck and Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport.  According to the Affordable Housing Alliance press release, the outing helped provide funding for counseling services to families that live in Affordable Housing Alliance homes. The…

  • Colts Neck library to host healthy cooking lecture

    Colts Neck library to host healthy cooking lecture

    COLTS NECK – Health counselors Debbie Peterson and Wendy Bright-Fallon, the co-authors of “Nourish, a Community Supported Cookbook,” will discuss eating healthy from 2-3:30 p.m. July 18 at the Colts Neck Library, 1 Winthrop Drive. “We will talk about the creation of ‘nourish coaches’ and our motivation to write the book to help get people…

  • Colts Neck players bond at North-South All-Star Football Classic

    Colts Neck players bond at North-South All-Star Football Classic

    By Brett Carroll Staff Writer Colts Neck High School teammates Thomas Clark and Vincent Gargiulo are happy they got to share one last memory together before their scholastic careers were over — and they made some new friends along the way as well. The two Colts Neck players spent a week bonding with each other…