Belford News

At least two state agencies will review the case of a series of artificially inflated school projects that cost Bernards taxpayers at least $2.1 million, after the arrest of four individuals, including a manager who worked for the school district's facilities-management vendor.

The Somerset County Prosecutor's Office has arrested and charged four men from the Shore area after a more than year-long investigation, alleging they bilked the Bernards School District out of more than $2 million - money that has since been reimbursed.

WEST WILDWOOD One unusual aspect of the disciplinary hearings that began against West Wildwood Police Lieutenant Jackie Ferentz earlier this month is that they're open to the public.

If Monmouth County freeholders feel the need to spend $200,000-plus every year on a pair of "transportation consultants" to help steer federal and state grants to the county for transportation projects, our elected state and federal representatives aren't doing their jobs.

Road crews clear off snow from the road in this photo taken Sunday morning in Hunterdon.

It's about 11 a.m. on a chilly December Friday, as some players continue to stream in at the Middletown Elks Lodge 2179 in the Belford section of the township.

A township woman was ordered by a Municipal Court judge to pay $12,000 after she pleaded guilty to improperly operating a Chihuahua breeding operation.

To our newspaper subscribers: Due to flooding and road closures from the nor'easter, some towns will have a delivery delay of Saturday's edition of the Asbury Park Press.

Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose.

A Middletown man is among eight people charged in separate indictments alleging thefts from the state's unemployment fund.

Frank Baker, 85, of Atlantic Highlands, died on October 11 at Meridian Nursing and Rehab at Shrewsbury.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 2179, along with its Ladies' and Men's Auxiliaries, Port Monmouth, and the Mayor and Township Committee of Middletown will jointly sponsor the 52nd Annual Veterans Day Parade on November 8. All fraternal, veterans and civic organizations, as well as schools and scout troops, are invited to participate.

Middletown - Make room on the wall at Town Hall. Middletown has received another award for the Port of Belford Feasibility Study.

The pedestrian struck and killed along Route 36 Tuesday night has been identified by authorities as a local woman.

Police say they broke up a party that included underage drinking on Perrine Avenue early this morning, and they handed out summonses to more than three dozen people, including some Monmouth University students.

Several homes in the Belford section of the township were evacuated this morning after police received a call that a man, who ultimately shot himself, was armed with a rifle.

Many emergency workers have left an incident scene on Turner Drive in the Belford section, and a portion of the road has been reopened.

Long hair peeked from under helmets. Clad in jeans, dark shades and short-sleeve shirts revealing the occasional tattoo, they parked their bikes and headed toward the Raritan Catholic church last month.

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JUST in time. Neil Renilson, former chief exec of Lothian Buses a ' your buses a ' has been sent on his way on early retirement at 53 with a A 324,000 package that should ease him blissfully towards his bus pass years.