Toms River–Ocean County News is a website managed by Toms River Magazine and Jackson Township Magazine, delivering Ocean County news since 2008. We’ve recently expanded our coverage to include ALL of Ocean County due to popular demand. In early September, we launched the Ocean County Police Blotter on facebook which has instantly grown to over [...]
Jackson–In a game which brought live televised coverage by the MSG Network, it was one-sided from the first kick. Instead, Brick Memorial dominated the Jaguars on both sides of the ball in a 34-7 win. Brick Memorial’s Mike Basile score 4 touchdowns. Joe Hans scored Brick’s other touchdown. Jackson just couldn’t [...]
By Christa Riddle What started as a challenge to halt the development of a stretch of woods across from her New Egypt home inspired author Karen Riley to pen three books on the Pine Barrens and its unique culture. Riley, a life-long writer with experience in journalism and freelance writing, knew that the surveyors combing [...]
Trenton-(PR)–The New Jersey Office of Emergency Management announced today that low-interest Small Business Administration loans of up to $200,000 are now available to South Jersey homeowners to repair damaged or destroyed real estate, resulting from severe storms and straight line winds which took place on June 30, 2012. Homeowners and renters are also eligible for [...]
Trenton–Legislation sponsored by Senators Tom Kean, Jr. and Steve Oroho that would require violent child sexual predators to serve a minimum of 25 years in prison has been approved by its second Senate committee. The “Jessica Lunsford Act” (S- 380, Allen/Kean/Oroho) mandates a sentence of 25 years to life for those convicted of aggravated sexual [...]
Trenton–Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced that a bounty hunter who formerly lived in Jersey City pleaded guilty today to conspiring in a scheme in which he had sheriff’s officers sign false documents so he could collect additional fees by claiming to capture fugitives who had already been apprehended by police. He paid the sheriff’s [...]
Ocean County High School Football Scores Friday, 9/14/12 Jackson Memorial 33 Toms River East 17 Southern Regional 19 Toms River South 0 Jackson Liberty 7 Central Regional 0 Brick Memorial 36 Middletown North 21 Point Beach 41 Dunellen 8 Point Boro 55 Pinelands 6 Barnegat 27 Manchester 0
Toms River–Enjoy a photo gallery of this past weekend’s football action. Want to get your team’s photos in next week’s edition? Email them to news@trmagazine.com before noon Monday. Action this week includes game photos from High School and Jersey Shore AYF games this weekend in Toms River and Jackson.
Just one year after laying off a third of his city’s police force and disbanding street crime and drug units, Tony Mack, the mayor of Trenton has been arrested for his role in extorting over $100,000 from ‘developers’ of a public parking garage. Trenton Mayor Tony F. Mack, the mayor’s brother, Ralphiel Mack, and his close [...]