Look for an August opening at the Deal Lake Bar + Co where owners Phil Villapiano, Jr., Greg Bartz and Andrea Pappas are ready to host patrons at the scenic lakefront location overlooking Asbury Park and Loch Arbour.  As for the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, Villapiano says there’s a silver lining in that […]

A fresh start is on tap at the Deal Lake Bar + Co where owners Greg Bartz, Andrea Pappas and Phil Villapiano (shown left to right) plan a May opening now that the Village of Loch Arbour has granted preliminary site plan approval for their reconstruction. The building — a restaurant and bar for decades […]

A joint investigation by federal, county and local law enforcement led to prostitution arrest of two women Wednesday, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced. Luan Guihua, 49, of Flushing, New York, was charged with the third degree crime of promoting prostitution and Jinzhen Yang, 48, also of Flushing was charged with engaging in prostitution, […]

Loch Arbour voters overwhelming approved pulling its students from the Ocean Township School District Tuesday. The special election votes garnered 97 supporters and four nayes, according to the Monmouth County Clerk’s Office online result page. The village has 136 registered voters. The approval means Loch Arbour can move forward with plans to send its 14 […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, I am a senior resident of the Township of Ocean. As such, I am deeply concerned about the recent decision to permit the Village of Loch Arbour to vote to leave the Township of Ocean School District. A vote to remain with the Township of Ocean School District would be a […]

The Ocean Township Board of Education has lost its final bid to keep Loch Arbour students in its district. Superior Court Judge Amy O’Connor denied the BOE’s emergent motion to stay Loch Arbour’s April 4 election, which now places the decision of pulling the village’s children from the school district in voters’ hands. This is […]

Acting State Department of Education Commissioner Kimberly Harrington denied the Ocean Township Board of Education’s bid to prevent Loch Arbour residents from casting ballots on whether to withdraw its 14 students from the 3,500 student school district. In a Feb. 24 decision, Harrington said despite claims that withdrawal of the village students would ‘irreparable harm’ […]

The Ocean Township School District will appeal Acting State Commissioner of Education Kimberley Harrington’s approval of Loch Arbour’s petition of withdrawal. “I can confirm that we will appeal the Commissioner of Education’s decision but I can say little else at this time,” Superintendent of Schools James Stefankiewicz [at right] said in a Friday afternoon interview. […]

Acting State Commissioner of Education Kimberley Harrington has approved Loch Arbour’s petition to withdraw from the Ocean Township School District. “It’s a great victory for Loch Arbour because we were clearly paying a disproportionate portion of the school district’s tax levy,” said Mayor Paul Fernicola (above). In its November 2015 feasibility study, Loch Arbour cited […]

Work to replace the bridge along Main Street that connects Loch Arbour and Interlaken will restart Monday, Monmouth County officials have announced. Traffic along the bridge over Deal Lake will cease at 7 a.m. and remain restricted until May 2016. “Utility relocations were performed before Memorial Day 2015, but work was halted during the summer […]