Loch Arbour News

Residents will experience sticker shock when they open their property tax bills next month, after a Superior Court judge refused to stop implementation of the state's new school funding formula in the tiny seaside village.

Arguments seeking to prevent a large school tax increase for Loch Arbour residents were heard in Superior Court Tuesday and a decision on the matter is expected by July 1. Superior Court Judge Thomas W. Cavanagh Jr.

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A Holmdel resident has filed to run for Monmouth County freeholder as an independent, marking the first time since 2005 that voters will have a choice outside the two major parties for countywide office in the November general election.

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A resident has accused the Borough Council of holding a secret meeting in violation of New Jersey's Open Public Meetings Act.

The Borough Council voted Wednesday night to appoint two new borough officials, and council members said neither position will require payroll increases.

Sen. Sean Kean told Loch Arbour residents last week that he is going directly to Gov.

Blame Gov. Jon S. Corzine and the Democratic leadership in Trenton for the school funding problems cropping up in Monmouth County towns, a trio of Republican state legislators announced Monday night.

The Lake Como school board planned to cut $16,000 from its 2009-10 budget since it will no longer have to pay that amount in tuition for an incarcerated student.

Annual school board elections are Tuesday. Voters will go to the polls to elect members of local and regional boards of education and to approve or reject tax levies to support school district budgets.

The total $971,629 village budget, down from $1,016,321 last year, calls for a two-cent tax rate increase for each $100 of assessed valuation.

They once belonged to the same town and they still share a school district, but a state law suddenly is pitting neighbor in Ocean Township against neighbor in Loch Arbour.

Loch Arbour residents will see a 226 percent increase in their school tax rate this year after the change in a state law which increased the village's annual school tax bill by $1.3 million.

Sure, the Township of Ocean Sewerage Authority has been battered by corruption in recent years.

Dean and Julie Gross were looking for the perfect place to relocate once they sold their Howell Township single-family home.

Taxpayers will pay much more to send their children to Ocean Township schools this year unless the village can convince state education officials and legislators that they made a mistake last year when they ...

Local musician and songwriter Ron Weinstein, who lives in Ocean Township, is fulfilling his life-long dream to be a full-time musician and is garnering some success along the way.

The Asbury Park City Council appointed Susan Henderson to fill the vacant council seat left by the resignation of James Keady Dec.