By DON STINE
What does it take to be a hero? Not just a hero who takes risks to help others (you know, the running into the burning building type of person) but to also be a person who is forced to take those same risks on a more personal level.
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Mold has been found at the Midtown Community School in Neptune, which will delay the opening until fall 2008.
By ANDREW CANGIANO
The opening of the Midtown Community School in Neptune will be delayed a year while a portion of the school is torn down and rebuilt because of mold in the new construction.
By JOANNE L. PAPAIANNI
A proposed 56-unit condominium complex at the entrance to Ocean Grove will be dismissed at the Board of Adjustment’s April 4 meeting, according to Administrative Officer Rose Havey.
Havey said Regal Homes, the developer, wanted to adjourn the proceedings indefinitely, but the board’s attorney, Monica Kowalski said the item would have to [...]
By ELLEN CARROLL
Two Asbury Park teenagers were arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault in connection with the shooting of another teen in the foot at First Avenue and Main Street in Asbury Park.
Police Chief Mark Kinmon said Jerrell Bell, 18, and Corey Gibson, 18, were charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon [...]
By ANDREW CANGIANO
Neptune Housing Authority Board of Commissioners Chair Ermon K. Jones was not re-appointed to his position on the board although several residents spoke on his behalf at this weeks Township Committee meeting.
Nick Williams was appointed in his place to a five-year term.
By JOANNE L. PAPAIANNI
The Bradley Beach Board of Education adopted its 2007/2008 budget Tuesday night, representing a 0.07 increase costing average taxpayers about $30 per year.
The average home assessment in the borough is $529,000.
Interim Business Administrator Dominic Carrea attributed the minor increase to the fact that a town wide revaluation was completed in the borough [...]
Hitman could break the school record in the javelin this year.
By ANDREW CANGIANO
What once sounded like a cocky outburst by a headstrong freshman may now become a reality for Ocean Township High School senior Dan Hitman.
By ANDREW CANGIANO
Last year, Ocean Township High School sprinter Georgina Nembhard got to learn from senior star Tiffany Grant, as the pair finished first and second in the 200 meter dash at the Monmouth County Relays in 2006.
As a senior this year, Nembhard will try to teach what she has learned from Grant to a [...]