Ocean Gate News

The borough first aid squad has announced the line and executive officers for 2010.

Tall and lanky, Joseph Lappin grew up in Hillsdale and spent most weekends on the golf course, if the weather was good, earning $1.25 to tote a golf bag around 18 holes.

Dolores Marie and Samuel J. Henry of Southampton celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Dec.

Recognizing the borough's achievement of having the state's first municipally-run wind turbine, Mayor Paul J. Kennedy was awarded the 2009 Innovation in Governance Award by the New Jersey League of Municipalities and the state Department of Community Affairs.

A Berkeley man was arrested Friday for driving while intoxicated and assaulting an officer, police said.

The borough's century-old recreation building was destroyed Saturday night after the wood-frame structure was ravaged by fire, police said.

After being stopped for a minor driving offense, a borough woman was arrested after police found 35 bags of heroin in her possession, with more at her home.

Following in the footsteps of neighboring Ocean Gate, officials in the borough have begun the process of analyzing wind power to see if building a wind turbine would benefit the town.

OCEAN GATE: The borough will hold its mayor's "Christmas Spectacular" bus trip Dec.

Area health departments last week rated one food establishments as unsatisfactory, 11 as conditionally satisfactory for health code violations and restored five others to satisfactory ratings after reinspections.

The small Ocean County community of Ocean Gate is the first New Jersey community to install a wind turbine.

The small Ocean County community of Ocean Gate is the first New Jersey community to install a wind turbine.

Mayor Paul Kennedy hopes the 50 Kilowatt turbine will cover at least 80 percent of the electric cost of the main municipal building.

THE STAKES: Two three-year terms will be available on the Borough Council. THE CANDIDATES: David Kendrick, 119 W. Arverne Ave., is a Republican and an incumbent.

If anyone was skeptical about the borough having enough wind to sustain the state's first municipal wind turbine, a gust that catapulted an American flag across an outdoor stage might have changed their minds.

A Toms River man was arrested for possession of marijuana Tuesday night after his Jeep was pulled over for a nonworking light near its rear license plate, police said.

The borough will be able to pay its $708,408 third-quarter 2008 tax bill to the Central Regional School District, but it will not have enough money to pay this year's third-quarter tax bill of $750,743 because of 'cash-flow problems.' 'A purchase order was sent over to their business administrator for the 2008 payment due them, and we expect to be ...

By Bonnie Delaney * and HARTRIONO B. * SASTROWARDOYO * TOMS RIVER BUREAU * September 22, 2009 SEASIDE HEIGHTS - MORE INSIDE: Berkeley takes legal action to halt Seaside Park seventh-graders' transfer to Toms River Intermediate East.

Berkeley and Ocean Gate schoolchildren will eat the same lunches this year, thanks to a shared-services agreement that will have Sodexo School Services preparing the lunches in the Berkeley schools before they are delivered to nearby Ocean Gate Elementary School.

The Township Council will meet tonight to authorize special counsel Francis Campbell to institute legal proceedings to stop what the township is calling a "siphon-scheme" to decrease school tax funds payable by Seaside Park to the Central Regional School District.