By DON STINE Ocean Township Deputy Mayor Robert Acerra will be stepping down from his post soon but he will not be leaving the Township Council “It’s just time to step down but I will still do what I need to do as a council member. I am not going anywhere,” he said earlier this […]
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Police Warn: Lock Your Vehicles
Ocean Township police are once again reminding people to lock up their vehicles when they are not using them. “We have been preaching this for years on social media, please lock your vehicles, remove the keys/fobs from the interior and don’t leave valuables in your car,” said Det. Lt. Timothy Torchia. Torchia said during the […]
Continue readingOcean Township Plans Recreation Upgrades
Ocean Township will seek to improve parking near the William F. Larking golf course and improve the recreational park at Appleby Avenue – both off Wickapecko Drive in the Wanamassa section-under two resolution passed at the last Township Council meeting. The council held a public hearing on the separate two applications to the Monmouth County […]
Continue readingUncle Floyd Headlines Comedy Night for Ocean Chamber
Tickets are now available for the Greater Ocean Township Chamber of Commerce’s 31st Annual Comedy Night and Gift Auction Scholarship Fund. The GOTCC event will be held on Fri., Sept. 14, at 6 p.m. at Ocean’s Buona Sera Palazzo. This event is open to the general public and enables the Greater Ocean Township Chamber of Commerce to […]
Continue readingYoung Students Spend Night in a Cardboard Box
Living in a cardboard box overnight is not on everyone’s bucket list- but a group of area teenagers did exactly that last week to raise awareness about homeless issues. “I just we will figure it out as we set up. We will find a way to create a community while crammed in boxes,” 12-year-old Alex […]
Continue reading3 Armed Police in Two Ocean Schools by October
By DON STINE Three specially-trained, armed police officers will be in place at the High School and Intermediate schools in Ocean Township beginning this fall, with a long-range plan to eventually deploy six officers to the township’s five public schools. On June 19 the Board of Education approved hiring the Special Class III officers to improve security […]
Continue readingWanamassa Fire District Receives $67,938 Matching Grant
Ocean Township’s Wanamassa Fire District 2 has received a $67,938 grant through the Department of Homeland Security to purchase a new set of hydraulic rescue tools to help extricate victims of serious car crashes, commonly called the “Jaws of Life.” “The grant will be used by the fire district to purchase what is among the […]
Continue readingOcean Affordable Housing Fund Gets Boost
By DON STINE Ocean Township’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund will get a real financial shot in the arm now that a 75-unit residential development in the western section of the township is starting to be built and occupied. The Enclave, a Toll Brothers development off West Park Avenue, has 75 single-family homes for seniors and, […]
Continue readingMulti-Million Dollar Tennis Center to Open
The grand opening of Ocean Township’s new eight-court, indoor West Park Avenue Tennis Center is scheduled for Sun., Aug. 26. “We are very excited about opening and we are working hard every day to get ready,” PATC General Manager Sean McCarthy said. The new $3 million tennis center is located in front of the existing […]
Continue readingCourt Dismisses Complaint Over Planned Redevelopment
A Superior Court judge last week dismissed a formal complaint charging that Ocean Township was not living up to its Master Plan by allowing development of a 32-acre tract at Route 35 and Deal Road. Peter Jungkunst and his wife, Jacqui Wenzel, filed the complaint on behalf of the Save 32-Acres grassroots movement to […]
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