Oceanport News

Summer on the Jersey Shore means fun. There are bars to hit, music acts to catch and margaritas to drink, making travel potentially dicey.

MIDDLETOWN - The Monmouth County Police Academy graduated its largest class ever at Brookdale Community College on Thursday, with 127 recruits earning their badges and becoming law enforcement officers.

They haven't pressed the point for about three years, but Oceanport officials are still interested in turning the former garrison headquarters at Fort Monmouth into a municipal building, the mayor said.

Try your luck at the trucks: The Food Truck Wars are back, and this year they're bigger than ever.

Two motorcyclists have been rushed to area hospitals after their bikes crashed on Oceanport Avenue, closing the roadway, police said.

A project that to repair the Branchport Avenue bridge which connects Long Branch and Oceanport has been delayed.

Fort Monmouth's marina parcel has been subleased to Oceanport, which will hire a company to maintain and run it this summer.

Two people were taken to area hospitals Wednesday evening after being involved in a car crash at the intersection of Oceanport and Pemberton avenues in Oceanport.

Shore Regional High School's latest community service project will be to help get Sea Bright ready for Memorial Day weekend.

A developer is looking to rezone Old Orchard Country Club, a golf course which borders Eatontown, Oceanport and West Long Branch.

Little Silver and Oceanport received nearly $3 million in Community Disaster Loans from FEMA on Monday.

This concept would bisect the golf course along the internal stream with retail stores to be built on the property that borders Route 36 and two-story adult condominiums on the Reynolds Drive half.

The following is a message from the Oceanport Office of Emergency Management: New resources will be coming into Oceanport from a foundation to help our residents.

Four Shore Regional students have attained the rank of Eagle Scout. In order to receive this rank the scouts must complete a community service project including its inception, planning, funding and supervision.

Racing dates: Saturday through Oct. 6. Racing Saturdays and Sundays in May . Racing Friday through Sunday starting May 31 .

The Red Bank Regional Visual and Performing Arts dance majors will present their Spring Dance Concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 16, and 2 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in the RBR Theatre at 110 Ridge Road.

It's been four years since the Oceanport-based Kortney Rose Foundation successfully lobbied state legislators to designate May as Brain Tumor Awareness Month in New Jersey.

NJ Transit North Jersey Coast Line service was suspended Thursday evening after a vehicle struck a pole near the Port-Au-Peck Avenue railroad crossing, bringing down power lines and the wires that run the trains.

Oceanport residents will not be seeing an increase in their tax bills if the borough's 2013 municipal budget is adopted next month.

General contractor Michael Hebeck, right, and Frank Montalbo, left, raise Montalbo's house on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Monmouth Boulevard in Oceanport earlier this year to prevent future storm damage.