Lakehurst News

The public is invited to meet Democratic candidates for Assembly from the 9th District at a summer picnic July 18 sponsored by the Manchester-Lakehurst Democratic Club.

The Rock'n Music Idol 2009 live finale took place Sunday, June 7, at the Cliffwood Beach VFW Hall.

Col. Patrick Slowey has returned to Fort Dix to assume command of the Army post.

An Ocean County grand jury has accused a 56-year-old Toms River woman of stealing about $18,000 from a charity.

The Lakehurst Historical Society is hosting its 19th annual July Fourth car show on the playground at Lakehurst Elementary School on Union Avenue.

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Thursday he would help address the pay disparity at the mega-base. Civilians working at Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base have been earning less than their counterparts at Lakehurst Naval Engineering Station.

Mark-It Services, a world-leader in reefer management, announced today that the company had successfully deployed its WAM-D, wireless asset management system, at APL's Global Gateway Central Terminal in Oakland, California.

Half of county's 36 confirmed cases from military bases. Two Burlington County residents have been hospitalized with swine flu during a recent, rapid spread of the disease throughout the county, health officials said Monday.

TWO RIVER AREA mayors are expressing concern about a proposal favored by NJ Transit to construct an additional rail line linking Middlesex, Ocean and Monmouth counties to the northern rail corridor with connecting service in Red Bank.

President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package is pouring millions of dollars into the Shore area for county government projects.

The road leading through the center of Lakehurst will undergo a face lift this summer, the county Department of Planning announced.

Two of the cases were a mother and son who live on the McGuire Air Force Base. By David LevinskyStaff writerdlevinsky@phillyBurbs.comThree new cases of swine flu were reported Friday, raising Burlington County's total to an even dozen.The latest cases were confirmed from testing by the state Department of Health and Senior Services and involve a ...

For years, civilian employees at the Navy base in Lakehurst, N.J., have earned more than their counterparts at nearby Army and Air Force installations.

A 54-year-old borough man has been arrested and charged with causing more than $100,000 worth of environmental damage by springing a leak in his ex-wife's home oil tank.

The southern extension of the Henry Hudson Trail, a transportation/recreation path through central Monmouth County, is off the list of possible MOM rail line restoration projects.

Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station has scored a trifecta of awards for its environmental efforts, with the May 28 honor of the Chief of Naval Operations Environmental Planning Team Award in Washington, DC.

A Swedish lieutenant taps his partner during Raven combative maneuvers April 12 during a Phoenix Raven training course taught by the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's 421st Combat Training Squadron on Fort Dix, N.J. Swedish lieutenants Fredrile Gartborn and Fredrik Andersson, both air force rangers, perform Raven combative maneuvers April 12 to ...

Significant progress was made on the proposed Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex, or MOM, rail line after representatives of the three counties agreed on construction of a route from Ocean County to Red Bank, instead of to Monmouth Junction, ending years of stalemate.

On the negative side, there's the noise of aircraft and artillery. There's the economic disruption of their neighbors' rising and falling fortunes, and traffic headaches such as that caused by the shutdown of a main road after the Sept.

May 7, 1937 - At least 33 people are dead after the Hindenburg airship catches fire and explodes in Lakehurst, N.J., a day earlier .