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Search for armed bank robber continues

Story last updated Thu., Mar. 11, 06:18 PM

Police are still looking for an armed man who flashed a gun at a Manasquan bank Thursday afternoon, then fled toward Sea Girt.

According to police radio transmissions, the man is still on the loose after robbing or attempting to rob the Two River Community Bank at the corner of Route 71 and Parker Avenue in Manasquan.

The man is described as being a heavyset white male with a light ...

Belmar’s mayor to step down

BELMAR — In a letter mailed to residents throughout the borough on Monday, longtime Mayor Kenneth E. Pringle announced that he has decided not to seek another term as mayor, here.

Mayor Pringle’s four-year term is scheduled to expire at the end of this year.

“For the past nearly 20 years, I have had the amazing experience of serving as your mayor,” Mayor Pringle wrote in his letter to resident. ...

SLH Council OKs contract for Public Works

SPRING LAKE HEIGHTS — The council, here, authorized a new contract at Monday night’s meeting that includes an increase in salaries and benefits for the borough’s public works employees.

The contract includes a 1.5-percent retroactive raise for the 2009 salaries of all pubic works employees and a zero-increase for 2010, resulting in a net increase for the entire department of just under $10,000.

The new contract, which was negotiated ...

Happy early St. Patrick’s Day

BELMAR — With pipes and drums bands playing, the aroma of corned beef and cabbage roasting, and weather in the mid-50s, there was no nicer, or greener, place to be on Sunday afternoon than the 37th Annual Belmar/Lake Como St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Hours before the parade even began, attendees were saving seats on local sidewalks to get the best possible view of everything the parade had to offer. ...

Wall Township’s Melva Radcliffe, 109, reflects on life, love & change

She was on the Atlantic City boardwalk when Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic, piloted his aircraft overhead.

She visited the border of Red China during the height of communism there.

She knocked on the doors of speakeasies in New York City during Prohibition, waiting for a proprietor to ascertain that she and her friends were patrons, not police — but only drank Orange Aid ...