Highlands News

Slow to act on a long list of appointments, departing Gov. Jon Corzine has effectively handed Gov.-elect Chris Christie a chance to reshape the membership and even the direction of the Highlands Council, which controls development in the water-rich region spanning seven northern New Jersey counties.

State Police arrested a Highlands man who they say offered two boys a ride on his boat, then had an inappropriate conversation and contact with them.

New Jerseyans believe the Garden State is much more developed than it is, according to a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll released today.

The arrest of 20 people following a year-long drug investigation will be announced today by The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office.

"Fish Passage Opportunities in the Raritan Watershed" will be the subject of an environmental speaker for the Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership November meeting, to be held on Tuesday, November 17th, 7:30 PM, at the Milltown Senior Center, 17 Violet Terrace, Milltown, NJ.

To our newspaper subscribers: Due to flooding and road closures from the nor'easter, some towns will have a delivery delay of Saturday's edition of the Asbury Park Press.

After a brief discussion with architect Eli Goldstein, the Borough Council unanimously voted to move forward with its plans for a new library by agreeing to seek bids.

A burglary suspect arrested in Old Bridge earlier this week is now being held on dozens of charges from that township, Sayreville and her hometown in Monmouth County, authorities said.

The Highlands Council approved a 16-mile underground gas pipeline Thursday that cuts through West Milford and under the Monksville Reservoir - the second time in six months that it okayed a major energy project through the environmentally-sensitive region.

In Dorothea Drew's Middletown household, the Frankfurt native speaks to her bilingual children in German while her American husband speaks to them in English.

Sidewalk curb cuts for handicap access on the southbound portion of the newly constructed Route 36 Highlands-Sea Bright bridge will be installed this month, said Tim Greeley, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation.

More than 600 students at Highlands Elementary School are being checked for head lice following 11 reported cases since the end of October, school officials said Thursday.

Carolyn Schwebel, an advocate for the American Disabilities Act, is expected to raise the issue of curb cuts in the sidewalks on the Route 36 Highlands-Sea Bright bridge during the borough's biweekly bridge meeting 9 a.m. Friday.

I'd like to comment on the Highlands article by Curtis Leeds and the letter by Steve Balzano.

In a second-floor, exhibition room, Lee Ellen Griffith stopped at an enclosed case and swooned over the large spoon inside it.

Land preservation efforts in the Highlands region are set to get a $4 million boost under legislation that President Barack Obama is expected to sign.

Congress has allocated $4 million in its pending Interior Department appropriations bill for Highlands preservation funding, the most money allocated since the Highlands Conservation Act was signed into law in 2004.

New Jersey Department of Transportation Commissioner Stephen Dilts today announced that the first half of the new Route 36 Highlands Bridge would be opened to traffic on Friday, October 30.

On Halloween night, the owners of the Windansea restaurant are requesting patrons bring food.

The issues for the five candidates running for two three-year terms on the Borough Council Tuesday are taxes, flooding, road construction and traffic from the Highlands-Sea Bright bridge project, the infrastructure and the Highlands Business Partnership.