Tag: Monmouth County

NY Waterway is closing its Belford operations but not without a fight.

As the nation once again grieves the loss of young children and staff members in the aftermath of an elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, local administrators, boards of education and police departments in the Two River area have reinforced security rules and ramped up police presence on campuses. 

Mayor Tony Perry called Middletown “one of the safest towns, not just in New Jersey but in America” at a press conference this week, but noted that feeling of security is waning as the entire county – and state – sees a rise in auto thefts.

As crowds flocked to New Jersey cannabis dispensaries, Monmouth County has yet to see the retail side of legal adult recreational marijuana.

After weeks of travel, work and worry, Red Bank residents David and Natasha Halbout are back at home, having succeeded in their efforts to rescue Natasha’s disabled sister Alla, 60, and her brother-in-law Vladimir, 81, from their apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Mancini Duffy, a tech-driven architectural and design firm, has recently opened a regional office in Red Bank in the historic 1920s Anderson Building.

If inflation rates, a global health crisis and the threat of a world war weren’t enough to trigger your stress levels, the idea of “range anxiety” might just do the trick if you happen to own an electric vehicle, or are mulling over the notion of acquiring one.

Development is changing the profile of communities, making preservation of local historical structures ever more important, according to members of the Holmdel Historical Society.

With the environmental impact of wind farms off the coast of Monmouth County still unknown, three entities in the Township of Middletown are doing their part to encourage sustainability by embracing solar power – and reducing electricity costs in the process.

MONMOUTH COUNTY – Restaurants forced to shutter suffered when the pandemic took hold and food pantries strained under the weight of an increasing food insecure population. Sustain and Serve, a New Jersey program funded by the federal American Rescue Plan, addressed those negatives, yielding positive results that have propelled the program’s continuation.