Pine Beach News

The media lately has been focusing on unimportant events rather than major world events.

After three years of construction and renovation, the Pine Beach Yacht Club is once again a pride of the borough.

A borough man remains in jail after he assaulted his live-in girlfriend and threatened to kill her and police officers Friday night, police said.

It was like Christmas came early. The Neumann Foundation, based in Pine Beach, had spent 18 years raising the funds to donate 101 bicycles to police departments, in the memory of Essex County Police Officer Keith Neumann, who was accidentally shot and killed during a pre-dawn drug raid Aug.

The 11th Annual Pine Beach 5K and One Mile Riverside Run is scheduled for June 28, race officials said.

The Pine Beach 5k Scholarship Committee has announced its 2009 scholarship recipients, who are four local college-bound students.

A fascinated 6-year-old stuck his hand in a bucket and picked up a baby bluefish a seine net had snagged earlier that day.

A Berkeley man was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated early Sunday morning, police said.

Five occupants of two vehicles were arrested for marijuana possession Saturday, police said.

June's lavish selection of road races includes a wider variety than most months, with options ranging from early-morning to early-evening start times and events on weekdays as well as weekends.

Police say a borough woman managed to continue distributing heroin even after she was taken into police custody on heroin charges.

Township officials will detail plans to re-develop the area around the old Beachwood Plaza on Route 9 when the state Office of Smart Growth holds a public hearing today from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Berkeley town hall on Pinewald-Keswick Road.

Chiropractor Anita Mihlon will host a free dinner talk about "Enhancing Your Body's Healing Power" at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, organizers said.

PINE BEACH: The Pine Beach Municipal Alliance is sponsoring a community yard sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, with more than 75 homes in the borough registered, organizers said.

When rush-hour traffic slows to a crawl along Route 9, the quiet residential streets here make for an inviting bypass.

A story in last Sunday's Press about Ocean County Freeholder Director John Bartlett getting a job as a full-time professor at Ocean County College in 2004 and keeping it just long enough to double his pension created a firestorm in our online forums and among those who follow Ocean County politics.

Kevin McLaughlin watches as 8-year-old daughter Chloe McLaughlin and her friend Caleigh Everitt, 9, right, count some of the allowance money Chloe keeps in different envelopes, at the McLaughlin home in Pine Beach, N.J. Testing your child's money IQ Here are eight questions to test your child's understanding of some basic financial concepts, ...

Scrawled in big, pink letters across three envelopes are the words "spend," "save" and "give." It's how second-grader Chloe McLaughlin organizes her $8 allowance.

The Traditional Republicans of Ocean County are back this primary season and are running as part of the 'Conservative Republicans Putting Taxpayers First,' on the same ballot line as GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan.

Scrawled in big, pink letters across three envelopes are the words spend , save and give .