Keyport News

MATAWAN: The Traditional Karate Center is holding free child anti-abduction workshops as a public service to children and parents here and in Aberdeen, Middletown, Holmdel, Hazlet, Keyport, Union Beach, Old Bridge and Sayreville.

After shoveling for 3 hours yesterday, there was no way we were going to miss dinner here last night.

As Valentine's Day approaches, New Jersey diners may choose from a wealth of romantic restaurant options.

The Borough Council has appointed Kenneth McPeek, 34, to fill the one-year unexpired council term of Democrat George Walling Sr., who resigned last month.

Jose Melgor, Red Bank, shovels snow from a sidewalk at QuickChek convenience store on West Park Ave.

A township man who police say represented himself as an auto dealer sold a lemon on Craigslist has been arrested and charged with falsifying motor vehicle records and theft.

Are 7- and 8-year-old kids a tad too young to start up and run their own manufacturing company? Sherry Hill's second-grade class at Keyport Central School would be the first to beg to differ, having launched "Potholders 'R Us,'' a small start-up consisting of 17 "employees'' ... including a president, treasurer and a secretary ... that produces ...

Two Long Branch men were arrested Friday in connection with recent bank robberies in Eatontown, Red Bank, Keyport and Middletown, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office.

It's now official: Democrat Christian Bolte has been re-elected to the Keyport Borough Council, defeating Republican challenger Edward C. Burlew after the Clerk of Elections certified Tuesday's election poll results that included seven provisional votes.

An apparently young, white man - who may be connected to other bank robberies - robbed a Wachovia Bank branch at East Front and Broad streets late Wednesday afternoon, officials said.

Members of two Middlesex County Catholic schools will run into the near freezing-cold Atlantic Ocean water Sunday for a good cause.

Borough Council candidates Christian Bolte and Edward Burlew this weekend are making their final campaign push as they come down to the wire to their special runoff election on Tuesday.

A night of laughter and food will help homeless basset hounds across the state. Comedy Night, Jan.

Police went to a Berger Avenue home to investigate a reported assault early New Year's Day, and when they arrived, they found a party that included underage drinking, authorities said.

Point Pleasant and Point Pleasant Beach - like many towns in New Jersey - are considering merging several government departments or services as a means to save money and, maybe, provide some relief to taxpayers.

Area health departments last week rated eight food establishments as conditionally satisfactory for health-code violations and restored one to a satisfactory rating after reinspection.

Newly elected Democratic Mayor Fred Tagliarini announced the formation of a shared services committee with neighboring Keyport and Matawan at today's government organization meeting.

Winners of this year's Keyport Holiday Lighting Contest are now official. The winners are: 1st place, 10 Chingarora St.; 2nd place: 97 Broadway St.; 3rd place: 172 Main St.

Neither snow nor ice could have kept 200-plus hardy souls from running the city's boards Sunday.

A September 2008 file photo of cars passing through the Keyport-Hazlet toll entrance to the Garden State Parkway.