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Section of Route 72 East to be Closed Friday Night
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Stafford Mayor Greg Myhre Endorsed by Republican Leadership for NJ Assembly
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Congressman Van Drew Leads Colleagues in Letter to Biden Officials Demanding ...
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Resilient Stafford Planning Workshop on March 14
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Meals on Wheels of Ocean County Receives Special Proclamation from Stafford ...
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Ocean Township (Waretown) Schools Take Big State Support Hit in Murphy's Budget
By KAITLYN DEBARTH
March 24, 2023MANAHAWKIN, NJ - New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) announced that there will be a road closure and detour in a section of Route 72 East in Manahawkin on Friday, March 24.
The closure is between Marsha Drive and Morris Boulevard and will begin at 8 p.m. until 7 a.m. on Saturday, March 25.
This roadwork is a part of the Manahawkin Bay Bridge Project.
STAFFORD - Ocean County Republicans gave their support for two NJ District 9 Assembly seats to incumbent Assemblyman Brian Rumpf and Stafford Mayor Greg Myhre at a recent Republican meeting.
Rumpf came in first with 96 votes; Myhre got 67 votes, while incumbent Dianne Gove was a close third with 56.
Myhre and Rumpf will now run on the party line with Berkeley Mayor ...
WASHINGTON - Today, Tuesday, March 14, Rep. Van Drew (R-NJ) was joined by Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME), Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), and Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) in sending a bipartisan letter to the Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator, Richard Spinrad, and the Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ...
STAFFORD - Mayor Myhre and Township Council has invited the public to the Stafford Township's Resilient Planning Workshop.
The meeting will take place in the Township Council meeting room on Tuesday, March 14th at 6:00 p.m.
For more information, please contact Rachel Giolitto at 609-597-1000 ext. 8509 or rgiolitto@staffordnj.gov.
STAFFORD - Mayor Myhre and Township Council presented Heather deJong from Meals on Wheels of Ocean County with a proclamation during Tuesday night's Township Council Meeting designating March 2023 as the 21st Annual March for Meals Month!
Meals on Wheels of Ocean County provides nutritious meals to seniors throughout the county that help them maintain their health and independence, ...
WARETOWN - The Ocean Township Schools has been here before. In November of 2022, voters passed an $844,000 tax levy by referendum due to an extreme decrease in NJ State School Aid.
The good news is that Murphy's lack of support for the 2023-24 school year was not a surprise and somewhat expected by the District.
After the referendum last year, the leadership in Ocean ...
STAFFORD - The Stafford School District was slammed in Governor Murphy's State Aid for schools budget for the 2023-24 school year. Stafford was not one of the more than 400 New Jersey school districts that will receive increased state funding next year.
Last week, Gov. Phil Murphy's increased overall school aid with an $834 million increase. The total amount of aid to ...
TOMS RIVER—U.S. Rep. Chris Smith today issued the following statement in response to another dead whale that washed ashore in Seaside Park in his congressional district earlier this morning:
“At least 18 dead whales and dolphins have washed ashore or been sighted in our area in the past three months. Anyone who lives at the Jersey Shore knows that these ...
STAFFORD, NJ - Stafford Greg Myhre joined many area mayors and other elected officials concerned about the numbers of dead whales washing up on the Jersey Shore,
These leaders have called for immediate stop to the development of offshore wind projects.
A letter was signed by 30 express concern about the unprecedented number of whales that have washed ashore recently."
A ...
BEACH HAVEN, NJ - After many meetings over the past year, Beach Haven Council will take their official and final vote at Thursday's 4 p.m. meeting at town hall regarding the proposed skate park.
On November 14, 2022, the Borough of Beach Haven approved an ordinance to allocate $325,000 for the skate park.
The skate park would be located next to the bayside ...