Point Pleasant News

There is a cautiously optimistic sense of joy in the home of Lt. Laurel Hester. Hester, a 49-year-old lesbian and retired cop who is dying of cancer, learned Saturday that the Ocean County freeholders have had a change of heart and are expected to vote Wednesday to offer domestic partner benefits to county employees.

Civil-rights advocates are planning to march at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Ocean County administration building to protest a decision by the freeholders not to allow a dying employee to leave her pension benefit to her same-sex domestic partner.

On Tuesday night, Point Pleasant Councilman-elect Mitch Remig was celebrating his victory as one of the youngest public officeholders in New Jersey.

Election Day ended in victory for Republican candidates Antoinette "Toni" DePaola and Mitchell Remig, as residents, here, hit the polls yesterday to cast their votes for the two open council seats available this year.

With their landscaped grounds and edging, some of Monmouth County's coastal lakes look like they took shape on the drawing board of a public parks designer.

Dying heroes, undying courage W antagh, L.I.: It's very simple . We responded to Ground Zero on Sept.

Stricken with multiple sclerosis, barely able to walk, Barbara McGovern was reliant on her mother for assistance.

The New Jersey Environmental Federation endorses the candidacy of Anna Potter and Alex Viecelli for Borough Council in Point Pleasant.

A Point Pleasant woman has been charged with the theft of a engagement ring from an Ocean Road home, police said.

The John Drulle M.D. Memorial Lyme Fund Inc. is holding its annual masquerade fundraiser from 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Jenkinson's Pavilion.

A police investigation into the separate robberies of two men making food deliveries includes the possibility that the holdups were committed by the same person or people.

Police responded to a report that a man was barricaded in a house on Sunset Avenue Tuesday afternoon but he came out of the home without incident, authorities said.

Police responded this afternoon to a Sunset Avenue address where an individual is reported to be barricaded in a home, authorities said.

Despite the gray skies and blue weather, pink was the dominate color in this resort town Sunday morning.

The bug hit Tony and Michelle Nugent back in the 1990s when the couple sold some family belongings at the Golden Nugget flea market outside of Lambertville.

Allegations of death threats, character assassinations and the airing of dirty laundry are providing this year's Borough Council campaign with perhaps greater political drama than even the governor's race in this town of about 20,000. Shaping up as one of the nastier contests for public office in Ocean County, much of this fall's political war here ...

It sounds like a bold stroke: Solve upper Barnegat Bay's pollution problems by creating a new inlet between the bay and the sea.

Two 42-year-old Point Pleasant residents have been arrested in connection with a purse snatching in an Eatontown parking lot, the theft of a purse in a Wall supermarket, and a flop of a plan to rob a bank in Monmouth County, police said.

POINT PLEASANT BEACH: Those who are interested in learning more about money are invited to attend the meetings of the Ocean County Coin Club on the first and third Thursdays of each month at Ocean Fire House, Arnold and St.

Don't miss this informative and provocative showing on October 28 of "Autism: Made in the USA", a Gary Null production.