Sunday, May 20, 2012
No charges filed against Freeholder John P. Kelly, accident is under investigation
A 24-year-old Barnegat man was pronounced dead at the scene early Friday evening after his motorcycle collided with a sports utility vehicle driven by Freeholder John P. Kelly, according to the New Jersey State Police. William Kolb was driving southbound on his black 2011 Harley Davidson at approximately 6:35 p.m., near mile marker 65.5. He attempted to pass the vehicle in front of him, then collided the right fender of Kelly's 2005 sports utility vehicle when he tried to return to the lane of traffic, said Trooper Joseph Mezzo. Kelly, 61, West Creek, was traveling northbound on Route 9 and was attempting to make a left turn in the West Creek Deli when the collision occurred, Mezzo said. Kolb was ejected from the motorcycle and suffered …
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Ocean County law enforcement officials and officers gather to remember those lost in the line of duty in the last year
There are 12 names etched in the monuments at Ocean County Park in Lakewood. It's a list that grew longer in the last year, as more law enforcement families joined those whose family members made the ultimate sacrifice in giving their lives in the line of duty. During the annual Law Enforcement Memorial Day Service, on the grounds at the Ocean County Police Academy within the park, those officers were remembered again, as the county's entire law enforcement family paused to honor their sacrifices. "I've always believed that we are one large law enforcement family," said Juan Mattos Jr., U.S. Marshal for the District of New Jersey, who was the keynote speaker at the service. "When one of us bleeds, we all bleed." "Remembrance is the …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Point Boro High School grad Rampone and her teammates train as Olympic hopefuls
Christie Rampone, remembered by her fellow Point Borough High School graduates as Christie Pearce, and 27 other members of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team are training at Princeton University. Rampone, who lives in Manasquan with her husband and two young daughters, and the other Olympic hopefuls, arrived in Princeton on May 10 for a two-week intensive training camp before the team faces China on May 27 in Chester, Pa., U.S. Women’s Soccer spokesman Aaron Heifetz said. He said the team was looking for a training location in or close to Philadelphia. “Our men’s team had a good experience (at Princeton) before the World Cup in 2010 and look at this," Heifetz said on Thursday morning, gesturing around Roberts Stadium where the team …
Three-day event offers arts and crafts, food and music as well.
Patch is offering 50-percent off gate ticket prices to the 30th annual Festival of Ballooning in July. But you'll need to act quickly. The discounts are only available through this Sunday, May 20. The festival, held Friday-Sunday, July 27-29, at Solberg Airport in Readington, offers much, much more than ballooning. There are rides, an arts and crafts festival, yoga and Zumba demonstrations, and food—lots of it. Every evening, there will be a music concert and twice each day on Saturday and Sunday and once on Friday, more than 100 balloons will rise majestically into the sky. And Patch will offer all attendees a chance to leave all your troubles behind and take a free tethered balloon ride. Just find our table at the festival and sign up …
A bill floating in the state Assembly would do just that
A bill up for consideration by a state Assembly panel next week would decriminalize possession of less than 15 grams of marijuana. The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Monday will review bipartisan legislation that would replace criminal penalties with fines for possession of enough weed for just less than 30 joints, according to a report in today's Star Ledger. The state director of the Drug Policy Alliance told the newspaper that the bill is the farthest marijuana decriminalization has ever gotten in the state Legislature. Currently, the penalty for possession of small amounts of the illegal drug is up to six months in jail and a $1000 fine. The proposed bill would drop the penalty to a $150 fine for a first offense, $200 for a second …
Narrow majority of Point Beach Council makes some revisions to controversial plan
Enforcement of the new, controversial District 4 parking plan is scheduled to begin on June 22. That is one of a number of fine points of the parking plan that was voted on at Tuesday night's Point Beach Council meeting at Borough Hall. The plan restricts parking from midnight to 8 a.m. on residential streets in District 4 to residents and taxpayers who need to have parking tags hanging from their rear view mirrors. The ordinance governing the plan states it goes into effect on "the Monday before Memorial Day weekend." However, just for this first year, it is starting later to give the town time to order and post signs and to have a week of warnings only before enforcement starts. The plan will be enforced through Labor Day. District 4 …
In-staff training shutters all branches for the day.
All 21 locations of the Ocean County System will be closed on Friday, May 18 for staff in service training. The library system will reopen normal business hours on Saturday, May 19. The Ocean County Library website services are still in operation. For the Toms River Branch, Saturday's hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. However, the Waretown branch is closed until further notice due to structural damage occurring as a result of an automobile accident on May 4. The Brick branch will open a temporary location on May 21 in the Town Hall Shoppes (990 Cedar Bridge Avenue). The Chambersbridge Road branch closed for interior renovation May 17. The temporary location opens May 21 and the hours of operation are Monday through Thursday (11 a.m. – 7 p.m.), …
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Mild temperatures send anglers into action
There's no doubt I'm a bit late to the party this year. History holds that my boat is often one of the first in the marina and, almost always, the last boat to be hauled out. Jingle Bell Rock has played from the speakers mounted in my center console. But this year, my fishing season has yet to begin. I have a tentative appointment with my boat hauler in Barnegat to drop her in the water Monday, but that's after a spring where some busy work weeks here at Patch and marathon rounds of graduate school studying have pushed fishing to the back burner. Luckily, with formal graduation ceremonies at Monmouth University now complete, I'll continue a much more elusive educational endeavour: finding every last honey hole in Barnegat Bay! With the …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Growing enrollment, OCC-Kean partnership sparking need for new access driveway, student center
In two separate ordinances on Wednesday, the Ocean County Board of Freeholders approved $18.5 million in spending for improvements to the campus at Ocean County College. Thanks to state funding and money from the college itself, the measures are expected to cost the county $11 million of that total, however, Freeholder Deputy Director John C. Bartlett said. The improvements are the result of the college’s partnership with Kean University that allows students to start at OCC and wind up with a bachelor’s degree from Kean. “This is going to be a major development for our community,” Freeholder Director Gerry Little said. “It will offer students an affordable baccalaureate degree for under $25,000 total.” One ordinance, for $8.5 million, will…
Governing body unanimously passes resolution calling for state, Congressional reps to disallow practice
Point Borough has aligned itself with opponents of a controversial technique to extract natural gas that some say threatens drinking water. The Borough Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday to urge a federal ban on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a process by which chemical-laden water is injected into wells at high pressure to force the fracturing of underground rock in an attempt to extract resources such as natural gas. The resolution urges the state Legislature to ban the practice in New Jersey while asking Congressional representatives to consider banning the process outright. "We realize the process ends up with wastewater," Mayor William Schroeder said. "What good is drinking water if it contains cancer-causing …
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Daniel
8:21 am on Sunday, May 20, 2012
I am not sure how this tragedy happened ! I have road in Harley ride for life programs and raised more money than all Harley riders at the time I had a Honda ,they all made jokes about bike but were cool ! now my issue is that why police don't give out more tickets for these young riders that drive between cars as if its their right ? also Harley and other bicker that have loud noise from engine … more ›