Eight sick and injured dogs living in cages in frigid conditions outside a Neptune City apartment complex were rescued over the weekend, officials said.
Neptune City police were called to the Brighton Arms apartments on West Sylvania Avenue early Saturday after someone called 911 to report excessive barking, according to the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
When police arrived they found the dogs and puppies crammed in small crates covered only by a plastic tarp on a porch, authorities said. All were trembling from the cold – covered in urine and feces with no fo… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 3rd, 2020 | Author: admin | Filed under: Monmouth County, Monmouth County News | Tags: MCSPCA, Monmouth County News, Monmouth County SPCA, Neptune City, Ross Licitra | 1 Comment »
Things started with former Gov. Chris Christie sharing an opinion piece on Twitter Monday that criticized Gov. Phil Murphy. And then it spiraled from there.
By the late afternoon, the current Democratic governor and the former Republican governor were mixing it up in a pretty feisty Twitter fight.
Christie shared an editorial from The Press of Atlantic City, written less than a week after Murphy unveiled his latest budget, that took the governor to task for wanting to raise taxes on people who earn more than $1 million a year and on cigarettes.Murphy then swung back.“We’re still digging out of the … Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: March 2nd, 2020 | Author: admin | Filed under: Chris Christie, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Phil Murphy | Tags: Chris Christie, New Jersey, NJ News Commons, Phil Murphy, Twitter | 7 Comments »
There was a 15% decline in opioid related overdose deaths in 2019, according to a tweet by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.
There was 167 overdose fatalities in the County in 2019, compared to 197 in 2018.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2020 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Monmouth County News, News | Tags: Monmouth County News, Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, Opioid Addiction Crisis | Comments Off on Monmouth County had 15% decline in opioid related deaths in 2019
Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger
Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger, PhD has introduced his first bill.
A3284 would mandate that the Energy Receipts Tax, the fees that public utilities pay in lieu of property taxes, be paid directly to the municipalities they are intended for, rather than diverted into the State’s General Fund.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2020 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Monmouth County News, New Jersey, NJ State Legislature | Tags: Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger, Energy receipts tax, Gerry Scharfenberger, Monmouth County News, NJ Legislature | 3 Comments »
William Palatucci and Virginia Haines will seek new terms as New Jersey’s representatives to the Republican National Committee when the New Jersey Republican State Committee meets on Saturday in Atlantic City. The State Republican Committee meeting will take place during the NJ GOP’s annual Statewide Leadership Summit.
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Posted: March 1st, 2020 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: New Jersey, NJ GOP | Tags: Bill Palatucci, Mary Pat Angelini, NJ GOP, Peter Carton, Republican National Committee, Virginia Haines | 1 Comment »
The Bayshore Medical Center patient who was being monitored for Coronavirus has tested negative for the bug that has disrupted the world, the NJ Department of Health announced.
The announcement means that there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New Jersey and that there are no others being monitored.
Monmouth County Deputy Freeholder Director Sue Kiley, the liaison to the Heath Department, announced the good news on her facebook page and asked that the news be shared.
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Posted: February 29th, 2020 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Monmouth County News | Tags: Assemblywoman Serena DiMaso, Bayshore Medical Center, coronavirus, Freeholder Sue Kiley, Hackensack Meridan Health, Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, Holmdel, Monmouth County News, Robert C. Garrett, Serena DiMaso, Sue Kiley | 9 Comments »
Los Angeles (AFP) – The first fatality from the novel coronavirus has been confirmed on US soil, a woman in her late 50s who was “medically high-risk,” President Donald Trump said Saturday, as he urged Americans not to panic.Health officials said the woman in Washington state was one of a handful with no known links to global hot zones to have contracted the virus — indicating that the pathogen was now likely spreading in communities.The death occurred in King county, the most populous in the state and home to Seattle, a city of more than 700,000 people, officials in the state told AFP.The vi… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 29th, 2020 | Author: admin | Filed under: Donald Trump, Health Care, News | Tags: coronavirus, news, President Donald Trump | Comments Off on First coronavirus death on US soil confirmed, Trump calls for calm
Eight sick and injured dogs living in cages in frigid conditions outside a Neptune City apartment complex were rescued over the weekend, officials said.
