Freehold News

The state of New Jersey held primary elections for the November elections on Tuesday June 4th.

The Ocean County Board of Freeholders adopted its $386 million budget during a regular meeting Wednesday, which calls for a county tax rate of 32.5-cents per $100 of assessed value.

Hunterdon won't be sharing a county agricultural agent with Warren County anytime soon.

Citing a combination of increasing efficiency in the way employees are utilizing their healthcare benefits and greater network discounts offered through the County's healthcare vendor, the Union County Freeholder Board voted to renew its contract with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey to provide the County of Union with health and ... (more)

Neighbor Describes Standoff Scene: A resident of the Bay Point Harbor development in Point Pleasant Borough describes the scene as police dealt with a barricaded man who was alledgedly involved in a shooting in Brielle earlier.

Yellow police tape blocked the entrance to the Sand Bar Restaurant and two police cars were in the parking lot on Tuesday.

The man accused of shooting a woman in the parking lot of his restaurant in Brielle is slated to make an initial court appearance.

Monmouth County Freeholder Gary Rich spoke positively last week of a pilot program testing solar powered street lights in Freehold and Manalapan.

Behind the Danzeisen & Quigley shopping plaza on Route 70 in Cherry Hill, people test-ride bikes in the sports store's lot and push carts from the nearby Korean grocery as cars whiz past on I-295.

President of the Jersey Access Group , Robert Duthaler presents Middlesex County Freeholder H. James Polos with a JAM Video Festival award for a traffic safety video that the Freeholder wrote and produced in cooperation with East Brunswick Television entitled, " Traffic Safety is Elementary, Don't Clown Around ."

After six months of a Punch-and-Judy routine of veto and override, it looks like Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan and the freeholders may have found the grounds for a possible bit of dtente.

A 35-year-old woman is in critical condition after she was shot once in the parking lot of a local... We're a little hard to find, but worth it.

The Middlesex County Office of Aging and Disabled Services' annual juried Senior Citizen Art Contest & Exhibition is scheduled for July 22 through Aug. 16 at The Studio Art Gallery at Middlesex County College Performing Arts Center in Edison.

The Union County Rape Crisis Center is currently seeking volunteers to serve as advocates for victims of sexual assault.

Members of the Folksbiene Troupe - from left, Dmitri "Zisl" Slepovitch, Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Rebecca Keren, Motl Didner, Richard "Ruvn" Kass, and Leyzer Burko - performing at Workmen's Circle camp in Hopewell Junction, NY.

We're a little hard to find, but worth it. Once you walk in, it's an oasis of bathing suits in sizes... James Habel home raid: Authorities searched the Point Pleasant home of former Wall superintendent James Habel in 2012.

Township and Morris County officials gathered on Riverside Drive Monday for a ceremonial beginning to demolition of flood-ravaged homes along the Rockaway River.

The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders is pleased to announce that income-eligible senior adults can obtain free vouchers to purchase "Jersey Fresh" fruits, vegetables and herbs at local Farmers' Markets in Union County.

The week is packed with civic and recreational events throughout Freehold Township and borough.

Horse Around at the Library Come to the Monmouth County Library on Monday and meet Indy, a Standardbred horse, who will be outside of the library at 5:30 p.m. in honor of Horse Month.