Golden keeps up the campaign for honest disbursement of 9-1-1 fees

Golden’s message to Republican naysayers: “Get on board.”

Monmouth Sheriff Shaun Golden is not letting up on his campaign to get Trenton to disburse the $.90 per month, per line, that we all pay on our cell and land line bills.

In case you missed it, Golden and the Monmouth County Freeholders held a press conference last week to highlight Trenton’s diversion of our fees, at the expense of public safety and in apparent violation to the federal “NET 911 Act of 2008.”  Monmouth County’s leadership on the issue garnered significant media attention, including on both New York and Philadelphia local TV news stations.

Golden brought the issue to the attention of NJTV yesterday:

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Greg’s List: Things to do in Monmouth County this weekend, July 15-17, 2016

By Greg Kelly

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Friday, July 15

• Butler by NJ Repertory Company (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
• “And Then There Were None” by Center Players (Freehold) – MORE INFO
• Grease at Spring Lake Community Theatre – MORE INFO
• Tommy at Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• House Tour by Historical Society (Ocean Grove) – MORE INFO
• Shakespeare on the Lawn at BCC (Lincroft) – MORE INFO
• Car Show, Concert & Fireworks (Manalapan) – MORE INFO
• Twelfth Night at Jersey Shore Arts Center (Ocean Grove) – MORE INFO
• Freedom Fest State Fair (Allentown) – MORE INFO

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Sweeney delivers Christie new gas tax plan to end N.J. road project shutdown

TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie and Senate President Stephen Sweeney met privately Tuesday in an attempt to broker a deal to fund transportation projects and bring an end to a statewide construction freeze. Sweeney presented Christie with a new proposal for replenishing the now-expired and soon-to-be-broke Transportation Trust Fund, according to a spokesman for the governor.… Read the rest of this entry »

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Coming Soon: A Monmouth brewed beer that will keep you awake!

Two young Monmouth County companies are teaming up to give their customers a jolt.

Jughandle Brewing Company, the Tinton Falls craft brewer that opened last month, and Booskerdoo Coffee and Baking Company, the five year old organic coffee roaster with stores in Monmouth Beach, Fair Haven, Asbury Park, Long Branch and Holmdel, announced today that they are collaborating on creating a coffee porter to be released in the fall in time for football season and the holidays.

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Reminder: Monmouth County Special Needs Registry Is Open

Monmouth County Authorities are reminding the public of the county’s new Special Needs Registry, a voluntary program designed to assist first responders to be prepared to assist residents with physical or mental impairments who find themselves in an emergency situation.

Charles Webster, spokesman for the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, told MMM that there was a large number of registrants when the program was launched in April by the Prosecutor, the Sheriff’s Office and the Chiefs of Police Association, but that as news of the program faded, so have registrations.

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Hundreds Remember Dallas, Pray For Racial Reconciliation.

Hundreds of law enforcement officers, first responders and civilians gathered at the Monmouth County Police Academy Monday evening to honor the fallen police officers slain last week in Dallas and to pray for racial reconciliation throughout America.

The Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office estimated that there were between 800 and 900 people present.

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Ex-Birdsall exec gets jail time in $1M pay-to-play scheme

TRENTON — A top executive of the politically connected engineering firm toppled by an investigation into illegal campaign contributions will serve nine months in a county jail for his role in the scheme, authorities said. Former Birdsall Services Group senior vice president William Birdsall, 67, is also barred for 10 years from bidding on public contracts… Read the rest of this entry »

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Jazzy Punk Classics in Asbury Park Weds Night

The Jersey Shore and Monmouth County in particular is known throughout the world for its contributions to rock and roll and pop music.

Wednesday night a global talent… local artist Deborah Dutcher of Rumson, who is known in London as Christine in “Phantom of the Opera” will perform punk classics like the Ramones’ I Wanna Be Sedated and the Clash’s Lost in the Supermarket “re-imagined” as jazz standards in a show called Punk Standards at the new Asbury Hotel.

The show was conceived by Phil Kuntz, also of Rumson, who is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for Bloomberg News who has also worked for The Wall Street Journal.

Accompanying Dutcher on the piano will be Joe McGinty, an Atlantic City native who know owns the New York piano bar, Sid Gold’s Request Room.

McGinty will follow Dutcher’s performance with live piano karoke.

The show starts at 8pm and is free.  Seating is limited so get there early.

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Manalapan’s Robby Andrews uses killer kick to become an Olympian

New Jersey’s Robby Andrews used his trademark big kick over the finals 400 meters to come from behind and finish second in the men’s 1,500 at Sunday’s U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials to make his first U.S. Olympic Team. PLUS: NJ teen sensation Sydney McLaughlin makes the Olympic Team Sitting in 5th place at the… Read the rest of this entry »

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Candlelight Vigil To Honor Fallen Dallas Cops

Join Sheriff Shaun Golden, the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, the Monmouth County Chiefs of Police Association and PBA – Monmouth County Conference along with Law Enforcement and Clergy from Monmouth County to honor the fallen Dallas Law Enforcement officers during a Candlelight Vigil on Monmouth July 11, 7:30 p.m. at the Monmouth County Police Academy, 2000 Kozloski Rd, Freehold.

All those in Law Enforcement, EMS, Fire and the public are invited.

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