Neptune City News

Police raided a Bennett Avenue home and arrested four people on drug charges, authorities said.

Where to dry material dredged from the Shark River estuary continues to be the issue delaying the project's start.

EIGHTH AVENUE: A 61-year-old township man was charged April 16 by Patrolman J. R. Cadigan with hindering apprehension of another.

The sound of flutes - clear and singular or joined in pleasing harmony - fills the small living room at Wayside Retirement Center in Ocean Township, inspiring enthusiastic applause from a half-dozen or so senior citizens.

WILSON, Neptune City. The eighth-grade class of 1969 will host a 40-year reunion from 6 to 11 p.m. June 13, 2009, at the Neptune City Firehouse, 56 Laurel Ave.

When police found Christopher Nowak's 6-foot-2 body last summer, it was draped over the roof of a 2003 Corvette.

At the May 26 meeting the mayor and council gave Police Chief William Geschke the approval to apply for a $10,425 Edward Byrne Grant, which may be used to help fund the purchase of a marked low speed vehicle.

On the Friday eve of Memorial Day weekend, Route 35 and Belmar Boulevard vibrated under the young crowd that drove in to get their party groove going at bars and house parties.

Saturday's foggy conditions may have kept most kites grounded during the kite festival portion of Spring Fling Weekend, but that didn't stop the crowd from coming out to have fun.

A Mercer County man was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault Thursday and now faces up to 20 years in state prison.

WOODROW WILSON, Neptune City. The eighth-grade class of 1969 will hold a 40-year reunion from 6 to 11 p.m. June 13, 2009, at the Neptune City Firehouse, 56 Laurel Ave.

A grand jury today handed up an indictment against two Chatham men, charging them in connection with an assault outside a Belmar restaurant and tavern last year that injured two Monmouth County men, authorities said.

It was a bitter end to an almost 20-year career in county government, but with a few words to a judge, former Monmouth County emergency management coordinator Harry Conover on Tuesday agreed to enter a court intervention program to avoid a criminal trial for pumping 7.8 gallons of gasoline from the county motor pool into a private vehicle in 2007.

NEPTUNE: Winners have been named in four American Legion Post 346 coloring contests for fourth- and fifth-graders. Winners of first, second and third place are Glaris Rubio, Justyn Morris and Jada Morris from Shark River Hills Elementary School in Neptune; Carly Draper, Vincent Tremarco and Gabrielle Clay from Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in ...

To most, the phrase "The Breakfast Club" brings back memories the 1980s film of the same name about Saturday detention.

THE STAKES: Three, three-year seats and one unexpired one-year seat on the Board of Education are up for grabs on Tuesday.

A study investigating the consolidation of the Somerville and Raritan Borough public works departments is moving forward, with a $14,900 contract for the work approved on April 6. The Somerville borough council awarded the project to Neptune City-based Patriot Consulting Group, according to Borough Administrator/Clerk Kevin Sluka.

Marianne Carlisle, Aberdeen, proudly announces the engagement of her daughter Cheryl Ann, Neptune City, daughter of Barry Carlisle of Linden, to David Bednar, Shark River Hills.

Three young adults are facing charges after police said they had problems dispersing a crowd that had gathered at a local bowling alley for a private party.

There's still more budget figuring to be done, but taxpayers could be looking at a 3-cent increase in the municipal property tax rate this year.