Barnegat News

ARTHUR B. PATON, 69, of BARNEGAT, passed Wednesday, July 16. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War.

A damaged gas main that led to temporary evacuation of parts of Bayside Avenue has been shut off and people are being allowed back into the buildings, police said.

VERA M. PILLSBURY REEVES, 87, of BARNEGAT, died Monday, July 14, at her daughter Nancy's home in Georgia.

A Stillwater Road man was one of six New Jersey residents caught in an online sting by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office targeting adults engaging in sexually explicit dialogue with what they believed were ...

A 17-year-old township male was arrested early Monday morning after he allegedly attempted to punch a police officer who chased him on Bayshore Drive.

THOMAS WALSH SR. of BARNEGAT passed away Friday, July 4, surrounded by family in his hometown of Waterford, Ireland.

A flock of double crested cormorants takes off in a panicked splash. Cormorants were among the species of birds that were affected by the use of DDT pesticide in the 1950s, but they have come back in a fury.

Police Chief Art Drexler remembers years when the township didn't buy new police cars and there were officers responding to calls in the snow in Public Works pickup trucks.

A 16-year-old Barnegat teen was charged with possession of a knife after police responded to a report of a large fight on Sextent Drive at 12:02 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.

Township Committeeman Thomas E. Hartman Jr. seemed to fight back tears as he made a surprise announcement at Monday's Township Committee meeting that, for health reasons, he will drop out of the race for his ...

The idea for the project came directly out of complaints from nearby residents that the children there had nowhere close to play, leaving many to walk around Lexington Boulevard and Potomac Court.

Police arrested two people Tuesday, charging them in connection with stealing two handguns from a Forecastle Avenue home in June and selling them for drugs and money in Atlantic City, police said.

Once again, the last meeting to discuss the cell phone tower Cingular plans to build on Lower Shore Road turned into the second-to-last meeting Tuesday night.

An additional $665,000 in federal funding may be allotted for maintenance dredging to keep the Barnegat Inlet navigable, according to a legislator's office.

Electronic equipment was stolen from 10 vehicles Timbers, Deer Chase, and Rosehill Manor developments overnight Monday into Tuesday, police said.

There appears to be an end in sight for both sides of the long-waged cell tower battle.

Authorities are investigating why a 28-year-old Stafford man apparently lost control of the sport-utility vehicle he was driving, crashed into a tree on the Garden State Parkway, killing him early Monday.

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A 37-year-old township man was charged with driving under the influence after allegedly crashing his car into a parked car on Gunning River Road Tuesday night.

The damp sand in the Johnson Pit revealed no fresh tire tracks Monday morning as Dale Freitas, director of the Atlantic Grand Prix series, cleaned up from the dirt bike and all-terrain vehicle races held there ...