Tag: Colts Neck

COLTS NECK – A legal challenge from two developers, backed by the statewide advocacy group Fair Share Housing Center, has compelled township officials to designate three large properties for affordable housing.

Three tremendously talented New Jersey residents made it as far as Hollywood Night on the ABC singing competition “American Idol,” but only two will be moving forward.

COLTS NECK – With new members sworn in and a favorable audit report, the Colts Neck Board of Education (BOE) resumed business at its annual reorganization meeting last month, largely devoted to opposing a statewide school consolidation proposal introduced by state Sen. Vin Gopal (D-11).

COLTS NECK – U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s recent visit to Cedar Drive Middle School has sparked a protest that won’t go away.

COLTS NECK – U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited Cedar Drive Middle School Friday, Dec. 5, to kickstart a nationwide “History Rocks!” tour she is spearheading with a federal coalition.

HOLMDEL – Not every runner in their career could say they were crowned state champion.

COLTS NECK – Monmouth County officials hosted a groundbreaking Nov. 6 for “The Crossroads of Monmouth County,” which will transform a vacant corner property at the intersection of routes 34 and 537 into a designated business district hub in the town – and the marker for the center of the county. The project is in partnership with the Colts Neck Business Association (CNBA).

WEST WINDSOR – It was familiar territory for one of New Jersey’s great tennis towns and a historic first for a team that took the next step after losing in the state finals a year ago.

COLTS NECK – I first met Lillian Burry the night she joined the Colts Neck Township Committee in the mid-1990s, making a grand entrance in one of her fabulous outfits. “This should be good,” my skeptical reporter’s brain thought.

COLTS NECK – The 84- acre Spinella Farm has been permanently protected from development through a conservation easement in a partnership of the U.S. Navy, Monmouth County, Colts Neck Township and the Monmouth Conservation Foundation (MCF), local officials said.