Englishtown News

The township is holding off on plans to rezone 20-plus acres off Wood Avenue for a 110-unit affordable housing apartment complex, after a heated, three-hour hearing on the project Tuesday.

A Manalapan postal carrier remained hospitalized Friday, one day after his delivery truck was involved in a collision with a car driven by a 17-year-old Manalapan resident.

A Heritage Drive resident told the Borough Council that a recent experience with the Police Department made him realize that the borough needs to retain its police force.

'Ever consider giving more meaningful, less expensive gifts that someone will keep for the rest of his or her life? Consider quality over quantity.

The 12th is one of a handful of districts that neither Republicans nor Democrats can take for granted.

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 Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey will hold free health screenings for horsemen on Thursday, October 29, at Freehold Raceway and Monday, December 7, at Showplace Farms.

Candidates for Township Committee said that fiscal responsibility, the township's affordable-housing obligation, commuter parking and restoring civility to local politics are among their top priorities.

Address of business: WRDR-FM, The Bridge, a Christian radio station that has grown in reach to a potential 6 million listeners, recently moved its offices to the township but continues to stream online to the far reaches of the globe, such as Mongolia.

The struggles of the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series for San Dimas Funny Car driver Jeff Arend were forgotten Monday at Memphis Motorsports Park.

Police say they broke up a party at a Whalepond Road home and issued summonses for underage drinking to more than a half-dozen people.

The Borough Council has resumed talks on whether to pare down its Police Department or make other unpleasant service cuts as it braces for 2010, officials said.

When a group of area residents got together 40 years ago in the living room of one of their homes, all they wanted was to stop a developer from tearing down a close to 250-year-old tavern to make way for a gas station.

"Auntie Ellyn" Glazer, right, and Heidi Kaye, owners of Auntie Ellyn's in Englishtown, brought some of their kosher mandel bread gift baskets to a sisterhood program at a Monroe synagogue Sept.

Crossing a tight-rope on his school's athletic field might not have seemed the best way to ease a kid's first-week-of-school jitters, but for 11-year-old Cole Szpara, it appeared to do the trick.

A mother and her three small children escaped from a fire in their townhouse Tuesday night, then police and a firefighter used fire extinguishers and garden hoses to contain the flames until fire trucks arrived.

ON THE WEB: Please visit APP.com and search keywords 'vehicle fire' to see a video and gallery of photos about this event.

As Mike Sullivan led the rallying cry - three shouts of "We will never forget" - and guitarist-singer Lee Deedmeyer led the crowd in singing "God Bless America" to begin the eighth annual "Walk with Joe," the sun peeked through the clouds.

A fallen tree brought power lines down on four cars in Lakewood this morning and sparked a fire in two vehicles, but the occupants escaped injury, police said.

Noise from motorcycles and the prospects for state environmental approval were issues addressed by professionals testifying Wednesday night for the Atlantic Off-Road Vehicle Park group, which proposes to convert the 120-acre Shoreline Materials sand mine off Thomas Avenue.