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 […]

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 […]

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 […]