Three burgeoning local activists have organized The Road To The Green New Deal, a town hall forum being held 7 to 9:30 pm tonight, May 10, at Macedonia Baptist Church located at 1924 Heck Ave in Neptune. The organizers are Alex Inkiow, 21, Summer Clark, 19, and Brittany McLaughlin, 20, of Sunrise Jersey Shore, a […]

Neptune Township School District will honor one of its own – Olympian 2016 Olympian Ajee’ Wilson. A parade and dedication ceremony will be held at 9:15 a.m. Saturday. Wilson, 23, is a middle distance runner who currently holds the US 800 meter record. She attended Academy of Allied Health & Science during which time she […]

The Asbury Park−Neptune chapter of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, is calling for a thorough investigation into the social media post that showed two Neptune Township High School students posing before a graffiti wall affixed with swastikas and a racial slur. “We will not stand for this repugnant display of […]

Neptune Township Superintendent Tami Crader issued a formal statement via the school district’s website Thursday addressing the social media post involving students standing before a wall graffitied with a racial slur and anti-Semitic symbol. While Crader could not be reached for comment at the time of this posting, her letter states that she and the […]

A checkpoint coordinated by the Monmouth County DWI task force will be posted along Route 33 from 11 p.m. Friday night until 3 a.m. Saturday morning, according to task force coordinator Brielle Police Chief Michael W. Palmer. Motorists will be randomly pulled over from the westbound lanes into Jumping Brook Plaza parking lot. The Monmouth […]

On Friday, Jan. 9, partnering organizations in support of law enforcement officers nationwide will promote a National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day [LEAD]. Local agencies will celebrate at 2:00 p.m. in The Performing Arts Center at Neptune Township High School, located at 55 Neptune Blvd, according to a release from Ocean Township police. The FBI National Academy started […]

A 22-year old woman was shot in the 1800 block of Bangs Avenue, along the Asbury Park-Neptune border, early this morning. Neptune Police received a 911 call at approximately 4:28 a.m. alerting them someone was shot at 1827 Bangs Ave., according to a statement from Charles Webster, spokesman for the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office [MCPO]. […]

Lashawn Fitch, 23, Neptune was sentenced Friday to 40 years in a New Jersey state prison for his role in the 2008 murder of 24-year-old  Nathaniel Wiggins of Eatontown, according to a news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Brothers Tahj J. Pines and Aron T. Pines, both of Neptune, and Kenneth M. Bacon-Vaughters, […]

An 18-year-old Neptune Township resident found with a stolen handgun from a North Carolina home in May has been charged with weapons offenses and receiving stolen property, according to a news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Izais Normil, of Eighth Avenue, was found in possession of a loaded Baikal Makarov 9mm semi-automatic handgun. A […]

Four men were shot and one stabbed in three separate incidents that took place Sunday and Monday evenings. Two men were shot in the area of 404 Myrtle Ave. in Neptune Sunday. Neptune police received multiple 9-1-1 calls reporting shots fired in the area shortly after 10 p.m., where there was apparently a large party […]