Colts Neck News

The Township Committee passed a resolution Wednesday urging the state Department of Transportation to proceed with a $17.2 million safety improvement plan for the intersection of Routes 34 and 537.

A U.S. Navy proposal to open 300 housing units at Earle Naval Weapons Station to civilian use has met with considerable opposition from area residents as well as from local elected officials and federal legislators.

Jurors asked to review a videotape of a detective's interview of a young girl about the sexual assault she claims was committed by the Colts Neck man now awaiting the jury's decision of his fate.

The Freehold Regional High School District school board adopted administrator contracts, including that of Assistant Superintendent Donna Evangelista, who had received criticism over the last year for obtaining a doctoral degree from an apparent diploma mill.

The Township Committee agreed to spend more than $20,000 to make repairs to the historic Montrose Road Schoolhouse.

Prosecutors rested their case in the trial of a Colts Neck man charged with sexually assaulting a child over a one-year period.

Rain is good for the farmers? Not always. Because excessive rain has damaged other field crops, a farmer who leases land from the Monmouth County Park System at Dorbrook Park has been given a waiver to start growing pumpkins in an attempt to recover.

The intersection at Normandy and Hockhockson roads in Colts Neck will be closed through Friday for repairs, according to a spokesman for Naval Weapons Station Earle.

Heavy rains threatened to turn Saturday's Civil War Weekend at Historic Speedwell into a washout, but about 40 brave re-enactors turned out to give local visitors a glimpse of living American history.

The Oak Hill Academy Parent Organization held "Enchanted Discoveries", which was the largest fundraiser of the school year at "Grey Oaks," the home of Richard and Mary Amdur in Colts Neck.

The Tinton Falls Board of Education can proceed with a legal appeal that attempts to keep out of its classrooms the children of civilian tenants who may soon live at Naval Weapons Station Earle.

Just waiting for you at many a roadside stand in Down Jersey. slideshow N.J. Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher is touting one of the Garden State's earliest fruits.

A showing of support for an idea to allow disabled and senior citizen veterans to live in housing at Naval Weapons Station Earle did not sway the Township Committee from its firm opposition to the Navy's plans to allow 300 homes to be filled by civilians.

Address of business For a March wedding in Colts Neck, the bride walked down the aisle carrying a bouquet of green roses, green orchids and green berries filled in with ivies and succulents.

Watch your back, Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival. There's a Benny to your north, and he's looking to take a big-band bite out of New Jersey's jazz-festival business.

A Holmdel resident has filed to run for Monmouth County freeholder as an independent, marking the first time since 2005 that voters will have a choice outside the two major parties for countywide office in the November general election.

Monmouth County officials want to accelerate work to replace the Oceanic Bridge, one of four top projects on a multimillion dollar shopping list they've sent to the federal government for construction in the next decade.

The Navy last week made its final decision to proceed with a civilian housing plan at Naval Weapons Station Earle and build a public road from Route 34 to the 300 housing units.

Five months into his new job, Thomas Hennessy is already making 'noticeable' improvements in the quality of the athletic fields and recreational programs he oversees.

Looks like downtown Red Bank is about to get a little bit more green a ' New York Jets green.