Barnegat News

On Nov. 20, 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights, the nation's most important document regarding individual liberties.

The letter said the board had offered McMahon a 4 1/2-year contract to lead the seventh- to 12th-grade district.

The Nov. 8 letter "Pine snakes good neighbors" creates a false impression of the Pinelands Commission and its efforts to protect critical habitat for Northern pine snakes.

A 46-year-old Barnegat man was killed Wednesday night when the car he was driving struck a tree off Route 532 .

Police have identified the man killed in a crash on Wells Mills Road Wednesday night as 44-year-old George Lenardo of Barnegat, Detective William Sneddon said.

There's a 60 percent chance of rain today and tonight and a 50 percent chance on Friday.

A panel of appellate judges Thursday ordered a new trial for a 41-year-old Barnegat man because, it said, he was convicted of drug offenses after a trial judge gave impermissibly coercive instructions to a jury to continue its deliberations despite it twice reporting it was deadlocked.

Danny Petoia is, quite literally, unearthing the past. Since the beginning of September, the 17-year-old Eagle Scout candidate and Southern Regional High School student has been digging out the original turntable on the Barnegat Branch of the Central Railroad of New Jersey.

Fresh cranberries bounce. A cranberry that can be bounced off a table is a fresh cranberry, said Candace Lillie, an Ocean County Park naturalist.

Please remember that The Food Pantry in Barnegat and neighboring towns need your help this Holiday Season.

BARNEGAT a ' Residents at Heritage Point, a Mignatti Companies active-adult community in Ocean County, state five common reasons why they fell in love with their new homes a ' affordability, value, lifestyle, commu-nity and neighborly appeal.

Republicans will keep their long-held majority on the Township Committee after voters returned the incumbent mayor and deputy mayor to office by a wide margin last night.

In the Sept. 27 German federal elections, voters had a chance to express their preference among a liberal party, a conservative party, a socialist party, a free-market centrist party and an ecology/peace party.

Kathryn M. Dreher passed away on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 at the SJ Hospice Center in Bridgeton.

Police are asking residents to report suspicious activity following a heroin bust in a residential neighborhood last week.

In the spirit of Halloween I went looking for the eerie. I drove down the Garden State Parkway South to a house in Forked River because it never fails me - every time I go south in this state I feel like I'm getting close to him - or it.

The 18-year-old driver of a vehicle that struck the rear of another vehicle stopped in southbound traffic Wednesday afternoon on Route 9 was issued summonses for careless driving and failing to have a passenger wear a seat belt, police said.

A local woman was in fair condition Monday at the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Trauma Center following a head-on collision Friday that left another woman dead.

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A woman involved in a head-on collision between two sport utility vehicles reported about 10 a.m. on Route 72 has died, police said.