Fair Haven News

Fair Haven Mayor Michael Halfacre is expected to enter the race for the Republican nomination for Congress in New Jersey's 12th district.A He wants toun against six-term U.S. Rep.

Phil Cardelfe was 19 when he took a job as a mason's assistant and spent the summer digging ditches, carrying blocks and mixing concrete.

FAIR HAVEN, N.J. a ' The owner of a New Jersey furniture store has been sentenced to five years in state prison for scamming customers out of nearly $300,000 by failing to deliver merchandise they ordered.

Fourteen companies respond to fire at bowling alley. Remembering D-Day Observance honors those who changed the course of history.

Down to the sea in little ships. For the 11th year in a row, young members of the Navesink Maritime Heritage Association's River Ranger program for youths are building by hand a small armada of wooden canoes that eventually will be launched in the Navesink and Swimming rivers to be used for river exploration this summer.

Jewel Cody came to her first management team meeting not to complain about problems in Fair Haven Heights, but out of curiosity.

When voters go to the polls Tuesday for the Democratic and Republican primary elections, they may find vacancies on the ballot for municipal races.

Among the six stops on the tour: Linda Vaccaro's garden at the corner of Lake Avenue and Harvard Road.

Leola Ann Barry, 86, of Middletown, died on May 16 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank.

Students at the Ranney School in Tinton Falls managed to capture second place in a Clean Action Ocean recycling contest.

Savvy train riders who seek out broken parking meters in the borough-owned parking lot for a freebie, the 21st century is catching up with you.

Maria Rodriguez of Rumson works out on the new equipment at Meadow Ridge Park. Here's a recession-busting idea for people who want to get in better physical shape but don't want to drop a load of cash at a gym: Check out the new outdoor gym that Rumson installed recently in Meadow Ridge Park on Ridge Road, opposite Fair Haven Fields.

Students taking classes in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University's School of Communication, Information and Library Studies will train to be journalists of the future with the help of $23,000 donated by one of the school's alumni and longtime supporters.

With the economic downturn it seems the more cautious owners have taken a let's wait and see approach before venturing into any new and substantial capital projects.

New Jersey places more special education students in schools outside their home district than any other state in the country, a trend that state and local school officials said they've struggled to reverse.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. Redshirt freshman Willie Beard worked a career-long 7.1 innings of one-run ball with five strikeouts and Rutgers got a pair of runs in the second and one more in the eighth as the Scarlet Knights defeated Seton Hall in a 3-1 first game win of a BIG EAST baseball doubleheader at Bainton Field Saturday afternoon.

Authorities in New Jersey have charged a Monmouth County financial advisor with defrauding investment clients out of millions of dollars through a Ponzi scheme.

Time no longer stand will still on the borough Web site, where the rosters of some boards and committees list people who were members in 2008.

A New Jersey-based financial adviser who allegedly bilked investors out of more than $7 million is facing federal wire fraud charges.

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