Leonardo News

The threat of rain did not discourage visitors to the Atlantic Highlands Fireman's Fair at the municipal harbor on Tuesday.

The owner of a Fair Haven-based furniture business has been sentenced to five years in state prison for scamming customers out of nearly $300,000 by failing to deliver merchandise they ordered.

The School district's administration on Wednesday will give a presentation on what they are calling their "final" full-day kindergarten expansion plan.

School superintendent Karen Bilbao said the district hopes to implement full-day, fully inclusive kindergarten for all students in all elementary schools by the 2010-11 school year, largely through the use of $2.6 million in federal stimulus funds.

Italian authorities took into custody a top boss from the Gambino Mafia clan who was deported from the United States after spending more than two decades in jail for drug trafficking.

One lane of Route 36 East is closed near Avenue D because of a gas leak, police said.

A township man, who had been charged with the last December armed robbery of two local Dunkin' Donut stores, pleaded guilty to those and other charges this week.

Best bets for the weekend Striped bass & blues in Raritan Bay The biggest problem for anglers seeking large stripers on bunkers or by trolling Stretch 25 plugs in the bay is the abundance of bluefish.

The bluefish that flooded into the Bayshore this week are also stacked up outside of Great Kills as they normally are at this time of year.

Striped bass in Raritan Bay: Clams, bunkers and Stretch plugs are all producing legal stripers throughout the bay -- with plenty of shorts on clams as well.

Tuesday's blog didn't post due to technical problems, which is a shame since it had good news for shore fishermen -- blitzes of big choppers in both the Sandy Hook surf and along the Bayshore.

MORRISTOWN - Prompted by ongoing residents' complaints of alleged drug, gang and prostitution activities, the Honduran Grill was closed by police Wednesday and its owner arrested along with a waitress and two patrons.

THE STAKES: Three three-year terms open. The proposed $144.3 million 2009-10 school budget comes with a $119.7 million tax levy.

PARSIPPANY -- A brush fire caused by a downed utility line damaged 150 acres of Troy Meadows wetlands Wednesday night into Thursday morning, fire officials said.

An Atlantic Highlands woman stabbed a female friend in the head and in an upper arm with a knife during a fight at the Leonardo State Marina on Tuesday, police said.

A Middletown man and former Fair Haven furniture storeowner pleaded guilty in Superior Court this week to fraud and a state tax charge and now faces seven years in state prison.

On the map, the Leonardo street appears as Florence Avenue. Resident Sandy Rodriguez calls it 'Fire Alley.' In recent weeks, two brush fires have torn through acres of wetlands between Raritan Bay and a row of ...

Monmouth County communities will see $3.84 million for beach replenishment, dredging and flood control spending in a large appropriations bill passed by the House of Representatives, which also threw in $1.3 ...

HANOVER -- The township committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on one ordinance that would allow a shopping center and apartments at a Route 10 site, and a second one to remove apartments from a planned ...

For many years, Dorothy Lee recalled seeing people with vision impairments make their way past her Middletown house toward Camp Happiness, a center for the blind in the Leonardo section of the township.