Mantoloking News

State Education Commissioner Lucille E. Davy today announced the elimination of 13 school districts, including Sea Bright and Mantoloking, that were operating without any schools and with a relatively low number of students.

Joe DeStefano of Mantoloking had always considered himself an idea man. Whereas some people only talk about their brilliant ideas, DeStefano acted on his, and after 13 years of playing a waiting game, he finally received a patent for his invention, HolE-Pizza. Designed to make two pizzas in one pan, the pizza pan has a smaller circular pan in the ...

Two men authorities identified as leaders of a $500 million-a-year sports betting operation in three states were sent to state prison Friday.

State officials presented checks worth more than $4.4 million to township officials Thursday.

TOMS RIVER: A 38-year-old Pittsburgh man caught in a sting operation that was televised in 2007 on Dateline NBC's 'To Catch a Predator' series has been sentenced to five years at New Jersey's correctional facility for sex offenders.

Republican officials and supporters from all over the state came together, here, late last week to listen to GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie talk about his plans for the state, if he is elected in November.

A beach badge checker sits under an umbrella next to a deserted beach in Mantoloking, N.J., in August 2008.

POINT PLEASANT BEACH: Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie will speak at The Women's Republican Club of Mantoloking-Bay Head's luncheon May 21, club officials have confirmed.

First aid squad members across northern Ocean County have added their voices to a chorus of volunteers across the state who are railing against Gov.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine made two new appointments Thursday to the Ocean County Board of Taxation, which come on the heels of three other appointments made last week.

A beach badge checker sits under an umbrella next to a deserted beach in Mantoloking, N.J. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which coordinates federal beach replenishment, this week announced how it would spend its allocation of the $787 billion stimulus package; sand replacement projects were not on the list.

POINT PLEASANT BEACH: An expert on affordable housing will address a lunch meeting of the Women's Republican Club of Mantoloking and Bay Head at noon Thursday at the Lobster Shanty restaurant, 83 Channel Drive.

A Jackson man who admitted to bilking local senior citizens out of money by contracting work he never intended to perform has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Monmouth County voters in the June 2 primary won't have many hard choices to make in races from the governor's office on down to the county level, based on petition filings by candidates at Monday's deadline for the primaries.

MANTOLOKING: The Board of Education approved a budget of approximately $207,650 for the 2009-10 school year after a public hearing Monday .

It's an ambitious, even audacious, proposal: Private investors want to create an island in 70 feet of ocean off the Jersey Shore by hauling out millions of tons of rock and enough sand to fill the Empire State Building six times.

Winter flounder in Shark River : This is usually the best bet for a few days at the start of the season, and it may still be good if cold weather reduced participation this week.

The state Green Acres program awarded the township a $1 million grant to develop a Mantoloking Road marina as a park, the mayor's office announced Tuesday.

With constant talk about the prospect of local schools being regionalized, concerned parents, teachers and school administrators gathered at a public school consolidation forum hosted by the New Jersey Association of School Administrators [NJASA], here, last Thursday night.

Police are investigating a serious car accident involving seven teenagers, six of whom are under 18.