Police Report No New Information in Pine Lake Park Burglaries

Manchester Police report jewelry stolen from home; two homes were robbed on Tuesday of electronics, jewelry and money

Manchester Police Lt. Lisa Parker said on Friday that police have no new information on the third burglary in as many days in the Pine Lake Park section of Manchester. The third home was burglarized on Thursday during the day, police reported, and was similar in nature to two other burglaries in the same area on Tuesday in that the master bedroom was targeted. On Friday, Parker said that no further information was available and that the victim did not report the amount of missing property. The Manchester Detective Bureau and the Ocean County Sheriff's Department Crime Investigation Unit have responded to assess the scene of a reported burglary on the 1800 block of Fourth Avenue. A K-9 unit also responded, Parker said. Parker originally …

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Somethin' To Talk About

To Walmart or Not to Walmart, on Route 37

Question of the Day asks your thoughts on plans to build a new Super Walmart at the Toms River-Manchester border.

After battling it out for years, the state Department of Environmental Protection and Walmart developers have presented a compromise in building a Super Walmart on the border of Toms River and Manchester, on Route 37. Today's Question of the Day asks what you think of the plan. The area is cited as habitat for a threatened species of pine snake, but the new proposal scales down the parking lot of the proposed Walmart and forces the owner to protect and enhance surrounding pine forest. We want to know if you think this mitigates the environmental concerns, or if you still hate the idea. Or maybe you just can't wait for them to build a new Super Walmart, agreeing with managers that the current Walmart near Bananier is overcrowded. Perhaps …

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FRAN

11:15 am on Wednesday, May 4, 2011

WHY NOT PUT THE SNAKE DOWN BY THE DOVER MALL WHERE THEY ARE BUILDING SHOPRITE THEY ARE THE ONES WHO PUT THE SNAKE IN MANCHESTER IT IS THEIR SNAKE. JUST BUILD THE WALMART AND BE DONE WITH IT. THIS IS THE ONLY STATE AGAINST WALMART. EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION I SHOP AT A SUPER WALMART THEY ARE GREAT. I WOULD NEVER GO IN A SHOPRITE I HATE THEM THEY ARE THE WORST STORE AROUND. JUST GIVE WALMART A …   more ›