By DON STINE
A uniform policy creating a strict dress code for students in pre-school through the fifth grade was adopted by the Neptune Board of Education last week and will go into effect in January.
“I am just pleased that the process has finally come to completion,” said board Vice President Jason Jones, who is the [...]
By DON STINE
Efforts to sell the Neptune’s senior citizens center to fund acquisition and improvements to a larger facility are on hold after an ordinance authorizing the sale was tabled at the Sept. 22 Township Committee meeting.
The ordinance called for the township to sell the property at public auction with a $2.5 million minimum bid. Jersey Shore University Medical Center, just a bit west of the senior center, has expressed a potential interest in purchasing the property.
One caveat in the ordinance, however, was that a private sale of the site could take place if the buyer was an incorporated, nonprofit hospitable association, like Jersey Shore – a stipulation that brought comment by Committeeman James Manning Jr.
By DON STINE
A face-off over state-imposed parking requirements is taking place among some Ocean Grove residents with one resident saying it’s time to stop overbuilding the historic district and creating more serious parking problems.
Mayor Randy Bishop, who owns a bed and breakfast in the historic district, and Ocean Grove resident Joseph Krimko last week attended [...]
By DON STINE
A township-wide ordinance limiting the hours for construction projects on Saturdays in the summer is being considered by the Neptune Township Committee after a similar proposed ban for Ocean Grove only was presented at a previous meeting.
“I think we should make any such ordinance township-wide and not just for Ocean Grove,” said Deputy [...]
By JOANNE L. PAPAIANNI
It was all in the family Monday night at Neptune City’s Borough Council meeting as Michael Donovan, III was sworn in as a police officer only hours after his father, also named Michael, was sworn in as Chief Warrant Officer of the Monmouth County’s Sheriff’s Department in Freehold.
Like his son, the elder [...]
Chief Michael William Donovan was sworn in as chief warrant officer in Monmouth County by Superior Court Judge Lawrence Lawson. He is pictured with Emily Donovan and Sheriff Kim Guadagno.
By DON STINE
A lawsuit challenging a Neptune Board of Adjustment decision granting construction of a car wash/lubrication facility on Old Corlies Avenue next to the oldest house in Neptune is scheduled to be heard in Monmouth County Superior Court on Mon., Sept. 29.
Residents angry over the zoning board’s decision formed the Old Corlies Avenue Preservation [...]
By TOM SHORTELL
Scott Nokes went to boot camp this summer because he likes early morning runs and pushups. There were no pushups, but Nokes did run a quarter of a mile in the dark of night while carrying an ill cadet to medical attention.
Neptune Township High School is nominating Nokes, a senior enrolled in the [...]