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, Earlier today, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division preserved the principle that a citizen’s right to vote is an essential foundation of this nation’s democratic traditions when it refused Ocean BOE’s attempt to prevent an election from taking place in the Village of Loch Arbour on April 4th. After three consecutive […]

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’ […]

Interim Executive Monmouth County Superintendent of School Lester Richens set Loch Arbour’s special election for April 4. The special election is being held to solidify Acting State Commissioner of Education Kimberley Harrington’s approval of Loch Arbour’s petition of withdrawal from Ocean Township School District. Mayor Paul Fernicola said residents will cast ballots on whether the […]

The Ocean Township Board of Education released a written statement Monday evening calling the approved exit of Loch Arbour students from its school district “strictly a tax issue.” The formal announcement outlines its reasons for a planned appeal of Acting Commissioner of Education Kimberley Harrington’s decision to approve the withdrawal of Loch Arbour students. Loch […]

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 […]

An Allenhurst commissioner may change his yes vote on sending a proposed merger between the borough and Loch Arbour to the state for review, according to a letter to Allenhurst residents sent by the Loch Arbour Board of Commissioners. The letter states “a small group of concerned residents met in private and persuaded an Allenhurst Commissioner […]

Loch Arbour will try to be a part of the first phase of the state’s beach replenishment project, per a resolution passed at Monday night’s special commissioners meeting. By being included in the first phase of beach replenishment, overseen by the Army Corps of Engineers and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection [DEP], the […]