Tag: Holmdel

  • Worobel scores four goals to lead Holmdel past Monmouth Regional

    Worobel scores four goals to lead Holmdel past Monmouth Regional

    It was a performance Holmdel High School senior soccer player Brendan Worobel will always remember. Worobel scored a career high four goals in the Hornets’ 5-1 season-opening victory over Monmouth Regional High School on Sept. 9 in Tinton Falls. “It feels great,” he said after the game. “We all came out and worked as hard…

  • Mayor asks residents to vote ‘yes’ on Holmdel questions

    Mayor asks residents to vote ‘yes’ on Holmdel questions

    This year, the Holmdel Township Committee has placed three public questions on Holmdel’s Nov. 2 general election ballot. I am urging Holmdel residents to vote “yes” on all three of these important initiatives. The first question would increase funding to acquire and maintain open space and farmland. The proposed increase is only $70 per year…

  • Holmdel resident among eight women to receive Girl Scout Phenom Award

    Holmdel resident among eight women to receive Girl Scout Phenom Award

    Girl Scouts will celebrate, recognize and honor eight Jersey Shore women for their accomplishments at work and in the community at a Phenomenal Women Under 40 event on Sept. 22 in Howell. Among the honorees is Holmdel resident Alaina Bontales, clinical director of Patient Care for Inpatient Oncology at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, and…

  • Holmdel officials adopt bond ordinance to fund local improvements

    Holmdel officials adopt bond ordinance to fund local improvements

    HOLMDEL – The members of the Holmdel Township Committee have adopted a bond ordinance that will fund municipal improvements. Committee members introduced the ordinance on Aug. 10. During a meeting on Aug. 24, Mayor Greg Buontempo, Deputy Mayor Cathy Weber, Committeeman Prakash Santhana and Committeeman Tom Critelli voted “yes” on a motion to adopt the…

  • Holmdel officials will seek voter approval for open space tax rate increase

    Holmdel officials will seek voter approval for open space tax rate increase

    HOLMDEL – When Holmdel residents go to the polls on Nov. 2, they will be asked by the Township Committee if they want the tax rate that supports the Holmdel Open Space, Recreation, Floodplain Protection and Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund to be increased from 2.5 cents per $100 of equalized valuation to 3.5…

  • Holmdel officials introduce bond ordinance to fund local improvements

    Holmdel officials introduce bond ordinance to fund local improvements

    HOLMDEL – The Holmdel Township Committee has reintroduced a bond ordinance that failed to win approval from a two-thirds majority of the governing body when it was initially up for adoption on July 13. The reintroduced bond ordinance is the same legislation as the one that failed to win approval several weeks ago. Municipal officials…

  • Holmdel officials ban all cannabis businesses in township

    Holmdel officials ban all cannabis businesses in township

    HOLMDEL – The Holmdel Township Committee has adopted Ordinance 2021-25A which will prohibit all cannabis businesses from operating in the township. The ordinance was adopted during a meeting on Aug. 10. Voting “yes” on a motion to adopt the ordinance were Mayor Greg Buontempo, Deputy Mayor Cathy Weber, Committeeman Prakash Santhana, Committeeman Tom Critelli and…

  • Charter study commission question will appear on Holmdel ballot

    Charter study commission question will appear on Holmdel ballot

    HOLMDEL – When residents go to the polls on Nov. 2, they will be asked by the Township Committee if they want to create a charter study commission whose members would examine Holmdel’s current form of government and possibly recommend changes in the township’s form of government. On Aug. 10, committee members voted 4-1 to…

  • Holmdel residents will vote on proposed increase in LOSAP benefits

    Holmdel residents will vote on proposed increase in LOSAP benefits

    HOLMDEL – When Holmdel residents go to the polls on Nov. 2, they will be asked via a public question if they want to increase benefits to local volunteer first responders in a Length of Service Award Program (LOSAP). The Township Committee has adopted an ordinance which will place that question on the Election Day…