Waretown

If you're seeing smoke and flames in parts of Barnegat today, there's no need to be alarmed as the Forest Fire Service will be conducting a prescribed burn at Cloverdale Park.

A Saturday swim at Barnegat Bathing Beach turns tragic, as a Waretown man's inert body is pulled from the surf, and resuscitation efforts fail.

Ocean County's faction in America's defense rolls officially increases by one, as U.S. Air Force National Guard Airman 1C Robert J. Tront completes basic training in Texas.

Four southern Ocean County people await court appearances on drug charges, following a Friday-afternoon search of a car that prompted Lacey Township police to search a house, where they said they found unauthorized opiates.

Louis Edward Ardise, 25, of Frederick Drive in Bayville was arrested Friday November 18, in connection with the drug induced death of 22-year old Victoria Maulback of Waretown according to the Ocean County Prosecutors Office.

If spray-painting an improvised left-turn lane onto a Waretown street is a joke of some kind, police aren't laughing. They might have charges waiting for whoever wielded the spray can.

41 members trained by members of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office at their training center in Waretown graduated from the program called G.R.E.A.T. which stands for Gang Resistance Education and Training program.

The Waretown man who admitted sexually abusing a preteen for six years is sentenced to 10 years in prison and will be required to register as a sex offender under Megan's Law.

Upgrades at Waretown's water treatment plant prompt officials to set use restrictions in place beginning Tuesday, May 17, until they're completed - estimated to be the end of June.

If you're planning to take the ATV into the woods for a warm-weather workout, don't bother heading onto private property in Lacey, Ocean or Barnegat Townships in Ocean County. The police will be waiting for you.

What federal issues affect you most deeply? Medicare? Social services? Wages? Taxation? Economics? Environment? Crime? Defense? Veterans' care? Shore Representative Tom MacArthur (R-3) lends his ear Wednesday at Waretown Volunteer Fire Company 1.

The Waretown man who admitted sexually abusing a preteen for six years awaits psychological evaluations before his prison sentence is determined.