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Brick man indicted in Metedeconk accident

POINT PLEASANT — On Tuesday, an Ocean County Grand Jury indicted a Brick man for the August 2008 motor boat hit-and-run that left a summer resident of this borough dead and four others injured.

According to the indictment, Anthony DiGilio, 31, is charged with vehicular homicide and two counts of assault by vessel in connection with the accident, which occurred on the Metedeconk River.

The charges were handed up this ...

Squan beach budget is scrutinized

MANASQUAN — The borough council, here, held another budget workshop session last Saturday where members discussed the proposed $1.6-million beach budget.

This was the third of four workshop sessions during which the governing body and various borough officials, including respective department heads, discuss the upcoming 2010 municipal and beach utility budgets and funds requested by the various departments.

The meeting began at 9 a.m. in borough hall, on Main Street, ...

Point’s Laura Beeden stirs the pot, keeps local politicians on their toes

Note to all Point Pleasant residents and politicians: If there is a secret being kept behind closed doors in town, Laura Beeden is sure to dig it up and dish it out.

Ms. Beeden, 60, a longtime borough resident, knows all there is to know about the town, its people and, especially, its political arena. One of Point Pleasant’s most controversial residents, Ms. Beeden uses the power of the ...

Point looking at layoffs, furloughs

POINT PLEASANT — Facing a tight budget, the members of the governing body, here, voted Tuesday to move forward with plans to furlough all borough employees for an as-yet-undetermined number of days later this year.

The Point Pleasant Council voted unanimously at its Tuesday meeting to submit an employee temporary layoff, or furlough, plan to the New Jersey Civil Service Commission for review.

The plan outlines four different scenarios, ...

Time runs out for Wall’s Shore Christian Center

WALL TOWNSHIP — The members and pastors prayed for a miracle and hoped for a last-minute reprieve, but time ran out for help to arrive, and Shore Christian Center was officially evicted yesterday morning from its home on Squankum Road, here.

A somber group of two congregation members and a church elder, who declined comment and withheld their names, left the complex yesterday as David Spector, of Waring Investments, ...