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YMCA Teen Camper Selected for Community Service Award

Details: Category: News; Published: 20 December 2012

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PICTURED: Tabitha LaRocca, a YMCA volunteer and student at Mother Teresa Regional School, is presented the “Knight in Shining Armor Award” at a Rutgers basketball game for her community service efforts at the Y’s Camp Arrowhead.

Middletown, NJ – Fourteen-year-old Tabitha LaRocca, a member of The Community YMCA Camp Arrowhead Teen Leaders Program, has been selected as a winner of the Johnson & Johnson and Rutgers Athletics “Knight in Shining Armor Award.” The award recognizes young people who go “above and beyond” to help others in their community.

Tabitha was presented the award on Sunday, Dec. 16 at a Rutgers women’s basketball game with over 20 family members, friends and YMCA employees on hand to cheer her efforts.

AHHerald Website - Technical Problems

Details: Category: News; Published: 19 December 2012

We are having some technical difficulties with our website. Our site is hosted through a web hosting company. As a result of increased usage, we are using excess capacity on the hosts resources. When this happens, the hosting company temporarily suspends the hosting account.

Some readers saw a message this morning the the account had been suspended. This was confusing to our readers. Your individual account is not suspended with the AHHerald website. It was the AHHerald who was temporarily suspended.

We are doing all we can to address the problem. This means possible upgrades to the software behind the AHHerald website. In that event, it is possible we will be out of service for up to 24 hours.

Helping Highlands Survivors - Raising Funds for Housing, Medical Needs

Details: Category: Letters to the Editor; Published: 18 December 2012

It would be hard to find someone in the tri-state area that wasn’t impacted by Superstorm Sandy. Some of us were more fortunate than others only sustaining the inconvenience of the loss of power or relatively minor property damage. Many others, however, had their lives thrown into turmoil with the loss of homes, cars, property and in some cases loved ones. One of the areas particularly hard hit along the Jersey shore was Highlands, NJ.

Located at the tip of the Jersey shore, Highlands is a small historical fishing village with about 5,000 residents. It’s a place where my family has deep roots tracing back to the original settlement of the area when it was known as Parkerstown. For me personally, my early years were spent there as a baby and a survivor of Hurricane Donna in 1960. Later in life I would go on to meet my wife Abbie while working at a local restaurant called The Clam Hut (which sustained significant damage during the storm).

SDA and Keansburg School District Unveil 91 Year Old Time Capsule

Details: Category: News; Published: 14 December 2012

Discovered During Demolition of Joseph C. Caruso Elementary School

KEANSBURG, NJ – The New Jersey Schools Development Authority (SDA) joined Gerald North, Superintendent of the Keansburg School District, and other district officials to unveil the contents of a time capsule found during the demolition of the former Joseph C. Caruso Elementary School. The time capsule was discovered, by chance, encased in the cornerstone of the building. Tricon Enterprises, Inc., the general contractor responsible for the demolition of the Caruso building, found the small metal box when the cornerstone, dated 1921, was removed from the building. Upon discovering the time capsule, Tricon Enterprises, Inc. carefully removed the time capsule from the cornerstone by hand with a chisel in order to preserve its contents.

“The contents of this time capsule will serve as a reminder to the students and the Keansburg community of the long history of the Joseph C. Caruso Elementary School,” said SDA CEO Marc Larkins. “We look forward to providing the Keansburg community with a new school building that will continue the traditions and path of excellence for their children.”

Belmar to Award Boardwalk Reconstruction Contract

Details: Category: News; Published: 12 December 2012

BELMAR, NJ - Today Mayor Matthew J. Doherty announced that the Belmar Boardwalk Reconstruction project bids were opened and the lowest bidder is Epic Construction from Piscataway, New Jersey. The contract award will advance for Borough Council approval at tonight’s Council Meeting.

Belmar’s aggressive approach to reconstructing the boardwalk, decimated by Hurricane Sandy, led to a robust bidding process with 23 bids opened on Tuesday, December 11, 2012. The bids ranged from Epic Construction’s low bid of $6.6 Million to the highest bid of 19.6 Million. The full list of responding construction firms and their bids are available at www.belmar.com.