The following information was provided by the Central Regional Alumni Association and compiled by the Ocean Signal. 4th Annual Alumni Night The 4th Annual Alumni night will take place on Friday, March 22nd between 6 and 11:30 pm at the Sawmill Restaurant & Tavern on Ocean Avenue in Seaside Park. Tickets are $26 and include [...]
Submitted by Marion Lynch, The FoodBank of Monmouth/Ocean Counties NEPTUNE – The FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties launched a free income tax assistance program aimed at helping low and moderate income workers maximize their tax benefits. The VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) will be offered at six sites, three in Monmouth County and three [...]
by Phil Stilton MANCHESTER – There’s good news for Little League baseball players in Ocean and Monmouth counties today as Manchester Little League has announced the expansion of their popular Mason Invitational Tournament (MIT) in 2013. Here’s how it works: Ocean County’s Little League teams play baseball within New Jersey’s District 18. Each year, chosen [...]
By Phil Stilton SEASIDE HEIGHTS – Governor Chris Christie announced Thursday during a press conference in the engine bay of the Seaside Heights Volunteer Fire Company, here, his plan to begin the cleanup of New Jersey’s waterways affected by Hurricane Sandy. In particular, he addressed the Barnegat Bay, where a sizable portion of an estimated 1,440 [...]
GREATER TOMS RIVER AREA – As part of the ongoing launch of the Ocean Signal, a new online and biweekly print and digital news magazine arriving this February, it was announced that the combined photo archives of the Riverside Signal newspaper, JTOWN and Toms River magazines will be available for print and merchandise sales and [...]
NEWARK–A Star Ledger report this week on the slowing of the tide of increased property tax in New Jersey shows that Governor Chris Christie’s campaign against property taxes might just work. According to the report, the 1.7 percent state average increase was the lowest in New Jersey since 1991. In Ocean County, five communities [...]
TOMS RIVER–Repairs are complete at the Bennett Indoor Athletic Complex in Toms River. The “Bubble” was one of the early casualties of Hurricane Sandy as a power outage combined with high speed winds tore sections of the roof and video was posted on the internet of the structure blowing in the wind. Repairs were [...]
BOROUGH OF ISLAND HEIGHTS RESOLUTION 2012 – 75 RESOLUTION OF THE BOROUGH OF ISLAND HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF OCEAN, STATE OF NEW JERSEY, DESIGNATING THE MEETING DATES FOR THE YEAR 2013. The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Island Heights, County of Ocean, State of New Jersey have scheduled the following meeting dates for the [...]
TOMS RIVER–After receiving the updated advisory base elevation maps, Toms River officials are claiming FEMA has made errors, calling the new maps “overly conservative”. “Based on a preliminary analysis from our Toms River Engineers, we believe that there may be some errors on the FEMA maps for parts of Toms River,” the township said in [...]