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- A section of Route 70 in Lakehurst was Tuesday afternoon after a car struck a utility pole, leaving an electrical wire down and sending the two drivers to the hospital.
- Manchester's police department is inviting those interested in becoming full-time officers , the first stage of the hiring process.
- Locals in search of the latest designer fashions have a new option that's only minutes away, as Juliana’s Joy, a women’s boutique located at 1900 Route 37 West in Manchester, on Wednesday. Mayor Michael Fressola joined the owners and their family to help celebrate during a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
- School elections are April 27; check out Manchester Patch's candidate profiles on , and .
- Ocean County College $12,247 for travel, supplies, publications, off-campus meetings and community outreach over a 31-month period, according to a summary provided to Patch.com by the college.
- There will be Ocean County health tax, if a budget unveiled Wednesday is approved following a May 4 public hearing. That translates into a $36 annual health tax bill for the owner of a home worth $300,000.
- Contract or no contract, 143 Ocean County law enforcement employees are retroactive to April 1. Ocean County’s reluctant freeholders approved increases totaling nearly $1 million, pushing the employees up the county salary scale, although the workers in the Sheriff’s Office, Corrections Department, and Prosecutor’s Office are still bargaining for new contracts with the county government.
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