Keyport News

Police arrested a Keyport man who they say swiped almost $5,000 in cash and checks from a liquor store.

A grand jury has indicted a former Hazlet man who is accused of trying to recruit a Keyport man to burn down the home of a Holmdel family.

When is a picnic in a public park not a picnic? When, according to Keyport Mayor Robert Bergen, a political party is throwing that picnic.

Police arrested two Keansburg men who they say robbed a 32-year-old man this weekend.

The Borough Council has approved a $1.4 million capital improvement bond that will make road improvements on three locations in town, including the jughandles at Routes 35 and 36.

The Board of Education has hired Lisa M. Savoia, 41, as its new district superintendent, school officials said.

The Keyport Masonic Caserea Lodge #64 and its Acacia Club along with Keansburg's Titan Wrestling Recreation Program, will team up with the nation's leader in a fan-friendly, family-themed pro wrestling extravaganzas.

As Sister Marie Connolly bids a tearful farewell to St. Joseph Elementary School in Keyport, she also finds anxious to take the helm at Sacred Heart Elementary School in South Amboy.

A former Turnpike Authority employee today received an 18-month sentence for money laundering in connection with a long-running case that has already netted more than 20 public officials in Monmouth, Ocean and Somerset counties.

An airport shuttle company based in Northern New Jersey has stepped in to operate the routes of Olympic Airporter while it negotiates an agreement to purchase the company, officials said Monday.

The pews of St. Joseph Church on Maple Place were full Saturday afternoon as hundreds gathered for a special Mass to bid farewell to the adjacent St.

Olympic Airporter, an airport shuttle service that has carried thousands of Shore travelers to Newark and JFK airports for more than 30 years, will close on June 19 because of rising expenses and slowing demand, company officials said Thursday.

Olympic Airporter, a shuttle service that operates between the Shore and Newark and JFK airports, will close June 19, the victim of the recession, a company official said today.

Amid swirling dust clouds and the rumble of 18-wheelers, three would-be truck drivers sat at a picnic table in the middle of a dirt yard, sipping iced tea.

They will build it; but it's money, not people, that needs to come. Residents' six-year dream of building a municipal children's skating park is still alive, but its price tag has climbed considerably since 2003.

KEYPORT: The bayside borough will hold the Exit 117 Merchant Market on Front Street between Main and Broad streets from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

A vegetable grows in Keyport. In fact, several vegetables do, along with a smattering of fruit crops to boot.

Superintendent of Schools C. Dan Blachford is leaving the district effective July 1, to become superintendent of schools for the Hammonton School District in Atlantic County starting in July.

Summer Concert Series sponsored by the Keyport Business Alliance is presenting, "Jazz & Blues on Front Street." This is a free Thursday concert series at the "Mini Park" on West Front Street overlooking the new waterfront park.

HAMMONTON -- Dr. C. Dan Blachford, who serves as superintendent for the Keyport School District in Monmouth County and has administrative experience in three other districts, will take over as superintendent of the Hammonton School District this summer.