Ocean Township’s Mayor’s Cup Golf Tournament held recently brought in sports celebrities and about 70 other people to challenge each other at the Hollywood Golf Course. Ocean Township Mayor Christopher Siciliano said that former NY Giants football players Otis OJ Anderson, a star running back, and Stephen Baker, a wide receiver known as “the touchdown […]
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Officials Seeking Feedback for New Development Plan
By DON STINE A plan to swap land to reduce development on a 32-acre tract at Route 35 and Deal Road in Ocean Township was vetted to the public at last week’s Township Council meeting. Little feedback on the proposal was voiced at the meeting and Mayor Christopher Siciliano said he welcomes “more feedback community.” […]
Continue readingCourt Rules Village Allowed to Leave Ocean District
By DON STINE The decision by Loch Arbour to withdraw from the Ocean Township school district and establish a new school district for the village will be allowed under an Oct. 18 decision made by the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division. “Taxpayers will continue to benefit from the large property tax reduction from […]
Continue readingShore Cake Supply Selling Baked Goods to Help Homeless
Shore Cake Supply, 3209 Sunset Ave., Ocean Township, is holding its fifth and final annual fundraising bake sale on Sun., Oct. 28 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The store, which provides baking supplies to bakeries in Monmouth and Ocean counties will sell bakery goods donated by their clients. Bakeries that sell only nut free […]
Continue readingOcean Deputy Mayor Will Step Down
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 […]
Continue readingPolice 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 […]
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