Waretown News

Ocean Township police arrested a 38-year-old local woman Friday for possession of heroin and marijuana with the intent to distribute both.

Farmers Markets are a fixture around Ocean County communities during the summer months.

Area Rotarians; Barnegat, Lacey and Ocean Township police officers; and members of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office came together to make children a little safer on Sunday afternoon.

A 62-year-old Waretown man has been accused by a grand jury of stealing more than $55,000 from his children's brokerage accounts.

WARETOWN - Forty-two new firefighters who completed an intensive training program of both classroom and hands-on instruction were feted during graduation ceremonies on Tuesday at the Ocean County Training Center.

LACEY - Students at The Education Academy in Lacey had a lot to celebrate at the end of the year.

Explosions rocked a normally quiet residential neighborhood here Tuesday afternoon as an intense blaze engulfed a shed, then quickly spread to two homes.

LACEY - More than 100 people came out to learn more about nuclear energy and the operation of the Oyster Creek Generating Station owned by Exelon Corp.

Just five minutes after the township's first-ever Jersey Fresh farmers market opened, a seemingly never-ending stream of cars filed into the parking lot.

WARETOWN - Birthday parties, anniversary parties, graduation parties might abound this time of year, but for Pebble Beach residents the cause, for celebration involved some inlet improvements.

The eighth annual Pebble Beach Homeowners Association picnic attracted approximately 140 members and guests to the Holiday Beach Club in Waretown on June 7. The event also included a meeting which featured an opening address by group President John Garback.

TOMS RIVER - Volunteers at the Twenty-One Plus Foundation, Toms River, are busy planning the 3rd Annual Golf Classic to be held on Monday July 13, 2009 at Oceanaire Golf and Country Club, Waretown.

Three 16-year-old boys will be prosecuted as adults on attempted murder and other charges related to a robbery in which a 19-year-old Toms River man was shot multiple times in April, authorities said Tuesday.

Rescues of people from fires and the ocean. Disarming threatening individuals. The people behind these acts, as well as other uniformed public servants - police, firefighters and first aiders - were honored Thursday night at the 200 Club of Ocean County's annual awards reception at the Holiday Inn on Route 37.

Beacon Hometown 6/11/09 BARNEGAT: DEEZ DOGS GETS EXTENSION Dale Hage, owner of Deez Dirty Water Dogs, has been granted an adjournment from the township's Zoning Board to the next scheduled hearing, July 14, so that she has more time to get a site plan.

LACEY - The Lacey Rail Trail Environmental Committee sponsored its second Trail Day observance on Saturday morning at the starting point of the Ocean County Barnegat Branch Trail.

A 54-year-old borough man has been arrested and charged with causing more than $100,000 worth of environmental damage by springing a leak in his ex-wife's home oil tank.

LACEY - The Lacey Rail-Trail Environmental Committee will join trail enthusiasts around the country in celebrating National Trails Day at 10 a.m. on June 6. The group is hosting a hike or bike on the Barnegat Branch Trail in Barnegat and will set up at the trail entrance on Burr Street off Route 9 in Barnegat.

Beacon Hometown 6/04/09 Beacon Hometown 6/04/09 June 3, 2009 STAFFORD: ARTS CENTER PLANS EVENT The Stafford Performing Arts Center will be hosting Celebrate America Under the Stars beginning at 6:30 p.m. July 3 outside the Stafford Township Arts Center and the Ocean First Theater in Manahawkin.

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