According to Michael Cunningham of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office Jonelle E. Melton, 33, was discovered after police and first aid responded to a 911 call.

The call, said Cunningham, came in at 9:07 a.m. Monday morning.

A cause of death has not been released pending an autopsy.

Phil Allegro, of the Environmental Committee, did a presentation at Monday night’s council meeting about bats and how they are natural predators of mosquitoes.

Allegro displayed a bat house, with three levels that he said could house 15 to 20 bats.

At a meeting Monday the commissioners debated whether the borough should pay $2,800 towards a study, already supported by five neighboring towns, that will analyze the feasibility of sharing certain services among the participating municipalities.

The study, supported by Belmar, Bradley Beach, Lake Como, Neptune and Neptune City, is 75 percent complete and mainly concerns police and municipal court services including dispatch, prisoner detention, use of K-9 units, and management among other aspects.

The mayors of the five participating municipalities proposed this feasibility study in response to the increasingly challenging economic conditions in New Jersey. While all of these municipalities already participate in shared service arrangements through inter-local service agreements with one or more of the other municipalities, this represents the first time these five neighboring municipalities have come together as a group to undertake a comprehensive feasibility study of opportunities for sharing these types of services.

Bradley Beach Mayor Julie Schreck said the public has been asking for sharing services and reduced costs for a long time.

The ordinance defines a special event as a commercial enterprise that requires a mercantile license, does not run more than two weeks in length and “serves the public purpose of furthering the commercial and mercantile growth and stability and/or aesthetics of the Township at large.”

The ordinance also applied a $100 charge for each permit issued, and limits permits to two per applicant in any calendar year, with neither event occurring within 30 days of the other.

The device, which is on loan, tallied 3202 cars in a five and a half day period going an average speed of 23.7 miles per hour.

The maximum speed detected was 42 with 90 percent of drivers traveling 30 miles per hour.

Mayor Thomas Arnone said at Monday’s council meeting that a four-way stop is needed at Ridge and Fourth Avenues.

“It’s a major, major problem,” Arnone said.

The mayor said several accidents have taken place at the intersection, mainly because drivers traveling west seem to run the Fourth Avenue stop sign.

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Sims, 18 and a sophomore at Rutgers University, recently published her fist novel, a horror story.

“The Gulick House” is a teenage love story, that in the end causes 18-year-old Stanley “14 years of agony and pain.”

Sims said the idea for the novel came from an old house in her neighborhood.

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Several eighth grade students from Woodrow Wilson School took the dais on Tues., June 9 to show their municipal government how they believed it should be done.

Although it was just a school exercise students took their temporary jobs seriously coming up with many suggestions for how to make their town a better place to live.

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At the May 26 meeting the mayor and council gave Police Chief William Geschke the approval to apply for a $10,425 Edward Byrne Grant, which may be used to help fund the purchase of a marked low speed vehicle.

Similar vehicles, called GEM, or Global Electric Motorcar, are currently used in Bradley Beach and Belmar.

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