Barnegat News

Get off the gas and mind your manners on the roads this summer. Three Monmouth County and four Ocean County police departments received $4,000 grants each for targeted aggressive driving enforcement from July 1 to 31 from the state Division of Highway Traffic Safety.

A 21-year-old Barnegat man was cited for careless driving after he struck a utility pole while sleeping at the wheel of his moving pickup truck on East Bay Avenue about 6 a.m. Friday, police said.

BARNEGAT - A township man was arrested on several drug-related charges at 1:20 p.m. on June 26, police said.

State officials are trying to trace the source of medical waste that washed ashore along an 8-mile stretch of southern New Jersey beaches.

There will be a public presentation of the 2009 municipal budget at 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 2 at town hall.

There will be a public presentation of the 2009 municipal budget at 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 2 at town hall.

- George E. Woerner IV, 33, of Tuckerton was arrested June 15 at Center Street and Shenandoah Drive and charged with driving while intoxicated. - Vincent J. Cimino, 50, of Barnegat was arrested June 18 on a contempt warrant from Woodland and turned over to New Jersey State Police in default of $2,000 bail. - Lisa Bazel, 43, of Little Egg Harbor was arrested June 19 on a Little Egg Harbor theft warrant and taken to Ocean County Jail in default of $5,000 bail. - Robert E. Mickens Jr., 36, of Little Egg Harbor was arrested June 20 on an Atlantic County Superior Court no-bail warrant and turned over to that county's Sheriff's Department. - Rebecca Mary Woldanski, 22, of West Creek was arrested June 16 and charged with driving while intoxicated and other motor vehicle violations. - Stephan Snigier, 33, of Brick was arrested June 8 and charged with driving while intoxicated. - Leonard Lewis Sofield Jr., 26, of Tuckerton was arrested June 8 on an Ocean County Sheriff's Department warrant. - Nunes Migule Bukula, 30, of Margate was arrested June 6 and charged with disorderly conduct outside Doyles Pour House. - William H. Chucta, 21, of Little Egg Harbor Township was arrested June 4 and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Construction of Berkeley's southern two miles of Ocean County's 16-mile linear park known as the Barnegat rail trail is expected to begin this fall.

Just five minutes after the township's first-ever Jersey Fresh farmers market opened, a seemingly never-ending stream of cars filed into the parking lot.

A man who admitted he fatally injured his girlfriend's 5-month-old daughter when he shook and squeezed her has been sentenced to eight years in state prison.

Rod Houck has a close encounter with Dolphin 56 last summer off Island Beach State Park.

Students filled the halls of the Elizabeth V. Edwards Elementary School in spring 2003; Barnegat High School hadn't opened and the township's population was beginning to burgeon.

The number of cases of the H1N1 virus in Ocean County has grown to 13, the county Health Department confirmed on Wednesday.

The township's sixth annual Community Day will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

Barnegat, New Jersey tight end/defensive end Jarrett Darmstatter was a relative unknown until a couple of months ago when he received his first offer of the recruiting process from Iowa.

Bluefishing may finally be turning consistent as Barnegat Ridge is producing 10-to-12-pound average choppers along with some up to 15 pounds.

Swine flu was designated Thursday as the first global pandemic in 41 years, as the number of cases in Ocean County rose to seven, officials for the county health department confirmed.

BARNEGAT -- The Lighthouse International Film Festival on Long Beach Island is over, but the memories linger on.

Iam terribly disappointed in recent articles on an issue now before the Barnegat Board of Adjustment concerning the hot dog trailer on Route 9. It is disheartening to see the facts being stretched and totally misrepresented.

LACEY -- Don't bother calling Joanna DiMaria on the phone if you need a haircut just stop in.