Mike Davis

1 week ago | app.com | Mike Davis

JACKSON – With a half-hour until the Jackson Food Pantry opened its doors, it was business as usual. There was already a waiting parade of cars in the parking lot of the Jackson Senior Center, checking out their needed goods on order forms and handing them off to one of a dozen volunteers. Those volunteers, young and old, furiously packed bag after custom-ordered bag, loading them onto carts and eventually into the trunks of the waiting cars.

1 month ago | app.com | Mike Davis

A chihuahua named Daisy was reunited with her owner after being lost for nearly a week near Naval Weapons Station Earle. Daisy escaped through an open door and onto the restricted naval property, prompting a widespread search involving the Monmouth County SPCA and volunteer groups. After days of searching and near misses, the owner, Beth Lane, finally found Daisy and they were tearfully reunited.

1 month ago | app.com | Mike Davis

1-minute readBrick resident William Swiderski, 24, was traveling west on Route 37 just before 3:30 p.m. on April 19 when his motorcycle, a red 2007 Honda CBR, collided with a 2020 Honda Accord. MANCHESTER − A motorcyclist was ejected over 140 feet and killed after colliding with a car on Route 37, according to police.

1 month ago | app.com | Mike Davis

Brandon Orozco-Avila, 28, lost control of his vehicle and veered off the trail, striking multiple trees in a heavily-wooded area nearby. JACKSON − A Toms River man was killed Saturday after crashing his ATV while riding a popular network of off-road trails. Brandon Orozco-Avila, 28, was operating the ATV in the Clayton Pits, a series of dirt and sand trails behind the Pine Barrens Golf Course and the Clayton Sand concrete plant.

2 months ago | app.com | Mike Davis

In a lawsuit, Bais Yaakov of Jackson accused the school board of changing the terms and conditions of the deal, which has seemingly collapsed. JACKSON - The sale of Sylvia Rosenauer Elementary School is off. In a lawsuit filed in Ocean County chancery court last week, the would-be buyer alleged that the Jackson school board changed the terms and conditions of the group's agreement to purchase the 62-year-old school for $13.1 million.