By DON STINE Pat Roddy, a well-known local musician, has been performing acoustic concerts from his Belmar living room for the last three Wednesdays and is now using them to raise money for local charities. “I did my first concert for my fans but that 600 number has now gone up to 12,000 views on […]
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The Time the Music Died
By DON STINE Has the music died in Neptune due to the coronavirus? That’s the question. Delvetto’s Pizzeria and Pub, at 3705 Route 33 in Neptune, had live music playing for customers over the weekend beginning Fri., March 20 but Neptune police said Sunday the music had to stop. “The police gave us an ultimatum: […]
Continue readingAldi Store Proposed for Asbury Circle
By DON STINE An Aldi grocery store is being proposed to be built on the site of the former Coca Cola bottling plant on the Asbury Park Circle in Neptune. Neptune Business Adminstrator Vito Gadaleta said this week that the Aldi is being proposed in one of three buildings to be put up at the […]
Continue readingOcean Offers New Proposal for Deal Road Project
By DON STINE The number of townhouses to be built on a 32-acre site at the intersection of Deal Road and Route 35 in Ocean Township will be cut almost in half under a proposal to bond for $4 million to purchase 10 acres of the site. The development plan by Paramount Realty, which has […]
Continue readingPinpointing Where Gunshots are Fired
By DON STINE If you fire a gun in certain areas of Neptune or Asbury Park law enforcement officers will be able to pinpoint the location under a proposal which has been approved by Asbury Park and, most recently, Neptune. The joint venture requires the installation of special gunfire location technology in a 1.25-square-mile area […]
Continue readingNeptune Hospitality Tax on Hold
By DON STINE A Neptune proposal to raise as much as $300,000 a year by instituting a hospitality tax on hotel, motel, bed and breakfast and similar short-term rentals will apparently be put on hold. The Township Committee has been considering adopting an ordinance creating the hospitality tax but questions about how to control and […]
Continue readingNeptune Purchases Property for a Park
By DON STINE It’s official – almost three acres of land along S. Riverside Drive, in the Shark River Hills section of Neptune, will now forever be a park. The property originally was scheduled to be developed with nine single-family homes. “It is the last remaining piece of open space along the Shark River. As […]
Continue readingOh Dear! What to Do About the Deer
By DON STINE Ocean Township officials hope to come up with a solution for the township’s deer-overpopulation problem in January – an issue that was addressed on Nov. 5 when voters said yes to controlling the deer population. The Township Council placed two special nonbinding referendums on the ballot to get a sense of where […]
Continue readingBenefit to Support Sarah Stern Memorial Scholarship
By DON STINE The memory of Sarah Stern, a 19-year-od Neptune City woman who went missing in late 2016, lives on through a special scholarship fund set up in her name. The Sarah Lee Stern Memorial Scholarship Foundation, begun in 2017, supports high school and college students to further their careers in the Arts and […]
Continue readingOakhurst Foodtown Will Increase Perishable Food
By DON STINE It may be a little darker in the Super Foodtown on Route 35 in Ocean Township but the store will also become a lot greener. In the near future the redesigned store will handle primarily perishable foods and products, like fruits, vegetables, fish, prepared meats, salads, dairy, and frozen foods, along with […]
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