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Middletown neighborhood to be sprayed for mosquitoes after West Nile Virus discovery
MIDDLETOWN — Mosquito control personnel will spray insecticide across portions of the Leonardo neighborhood of Middletown early Wednesday, July 31, following the discovery of West Nile Virus in the area, county officials announced. Mosquito control staff will spray Leonardo and adjacent streets between 4:30 and 6:30 a.m. Wednesday with an insecticide that targets...
‘America’s Best Watering Hole’ is a New Jersey Hidden Gem
New Jersey has been receiving a lot of "bests" lately, but are we surprised?. This place, in particular, has a remarkable story that goes back a while. The bar itself is a relic of Prohibition. Real rum runners would throw back a cocktail when they weren't smuggling booze. Even to...
Southern-style fried chicken place plans to open 13 spots in NJ
🍗 A fried chicken franchise plans to expand its operations in New Jersey. 🍗 The plan is open 13 locations across Monmouth and Ocean counties. 🍗They specialize in fried and grilled chicken sandwiches. A famous fried chicken franchise based in Colorado since 2018, has plans to expand...
2 NJ Bars Make List of Nation’s Best, USA Today
Two New Jersey bars were just named amongst the best bars in the nation by USA Today. The USA Today network has publications across the country, and they asked their food writers all over the US what their favorite bars were. The list was narrowed down to 27 total bars, and surprise, NJ makes up not one, but two entries on the list.
Monmouth County Watering Hole Makes National List of Best Bars
According to NJ Monthly, USA Today has just announced its first list of best bars in America. Two Garden State establishments were among them. Tierney’s Tavern, an Irish pub in Montclair, and Monmouth County’s own, Wonder Bar, an iconic music venue in Asbury Park, made the listing of 27 spots around the United States.
Vacant Neptune motel becomes home to raccoons, and neighbors want it gone now
NEPTUNE - Residents in the Shark River Island neighborhood want the township or county to do something about the vacant, storm-damaged motel that has been an eyesore in their community for over three years. Resident Steven Mundorff remembers being out to dinner when a 2021 storm ripped the roof off the Route...
Town can bury NJ mayor’s ‘racially charged’ video, judge rules
SPOTSWOOD — A Middlesex County judge has blocked the release of police bodycam footage that a lawsuit claims shows the Spotswood mayor going on a racist tirade against a resident whose only mistake appears to have been the color of his skin. The video is integral to a dispute...
Slag cleanup on Keyport beach continues as items are tested for lead content
The Department of Environmental Protection was back in Keyport for a second day removing lead contamination from a public beach along Raritan Bay. Workers with the DEP were back at the beach near Walnut Street to take advantage of the low tide. They were performing back-breaking work in the high heat of late July, picking up pieces of iron ore slag by hand or with a shovel.
Free Movies in Asbury Park
Asbury Park’s Department of Community and Cultural Affairs will kick off the City’s free summer movie series with a showing of “Monsters University” in Springwood Park Thurs., Aug. 1. The summer movie series is open to adults and children of all ages with showings scheduled outdoors...
Don't Miss National Night Out: Celebrating Community and Safety in NJ
SPRING LAKE HEIGHTS, SEA GIRT, MANASQUAN, BRIELLE, SPRING LAKE, NJ - Held the first Tuesday of August, National Night Out is a community policing awareness-raising event celebrated annually by local communities across the country. What began in 1984 as an initiative to help communities and police come together to fight neighborhood crime has now become a festive evening consisting of barbecues, live music, dancing, and meet-and-greets with police officers, firefighters, and paramedics. In New Jersey, National Night Out has seen significant participation and growth over the years. In 2023, over 200 communities across the state took part...
Vacant, 6-acre plot of Staten Island land will soon be used to store trucks, trailers, containers and more
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A 6.4-acre plot of land on Forest Avenue in Mariners Harbor will soon be transformed into an industrial outdoor storage facility – the now-vacant property primarily used for the storage of trucks, trailers, vans, large equipment, containers, materials and more. “The concept of industrial outdoor...
Republicans are caught off-base by the J.D. Vance nomination | Mulshine
I think it’s safe to say that, in baseball terms, Donald Trump already had that base covered. That was my thought as I walked up Ocean Avenue in Deal on Sunday, past a fleet of cars and trucks bearing Donald Trump bumper stickers. If you purchase a product or...
Op-Ed: McGreevey Should Return Kushner’s Money
As a woman, the mother of a daughter, an educator and someone who believes in the fundamental rights of allowing people to choose who they love, what god (if any) they can worship and that a woman has a right to bodily autonomy, the idea of another Trump Presidency scares the hell out of me. I am doing everything in my power to make sure it does not happen.
ICYMI: Dispensary Comes to Neptune City
NEPTUNE CITY - Last week, Neptune City's Land Use Board Shipwreck'd LLC's application for a Class V cannabis retail store as licensed by the State of New Jersey. Shipwreck'd LLC will set up operations at the shopping plaza at 300 West Sylvania Avenue, which currently also houses Retro Fitness. Neptune City only approved usage of Class V licenses at their March 2023 meeting, and only in the commercial zone along the highway in western Neptune City. Class V licenses disallow drive-through sales. The Township further stipulated that cannibusinesses must have entrances/exits on Route 33 and cannot be...
Names of prominent Staten Island former slave owning families endure on borough street signs
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Staten Island is home to the nation’s oldest free Black settlement still inhabited by descendants of its founders. But before Sandy Ground was founded here in the early 1800s, Staten Island, like many communities throughout the Northeast, was home to a number of slave-owning families.
NJ resident’s dog finds a rabid animal, the 3rd in the county this year
SOUTH BRUNSWICK — One Middlesex County township has its first rabid animal of the year, according to the County Office of Health Services. However, it is the third rabid animal reported within the county for 2024. Health officials said that on Saturday, July 20, a South Brunswick resident’s dog...
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