Power Outage Closes Freehold High School Mid-Morning

Power outages struck Freehold High School this morning after students had arrived for the day, as the weekend's massive storm continued to cause problems throughout our area today.

Buses were called to collect students mid-morning, and driving students were allowed to take their cars home during the outage. As of now, school will be open tomorrow.

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Mallet Rips Budget Requests at Freeholder Meeting

One Freeholder is not happy with the budget requests of certain Monmouth County departments--including the library system and park system, according to the APP.

Mallet, second from left, spoke out against the proposed budget at last week's meeting.

From the report:

Democrat Amy A. Mallet during the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders meeting Thursday night said the County Library System tucked $82,000 into its budget request for employee travel and meetings and $43,000 for a new delivery van. Library officials later admitted they didn't really need the money for travel or for a van. Read more

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Freehold InJersey Invites You to Post

In the past few months, Freehold InJersey has grown by leaps and bounds, and boy, are we happy with our progress! But for all our new users, we want to make sure you know about the best part of this site: you!

Freehold InJersey is unique in hyperlocal websites: it has open registration and posting access, meaning you can sign up and post a story on anything you want, whenever you want. From weather to Girl Scout cookies to your political persuasion, you can share your corner of Freehold right here in this online community center. Read more

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Shore coaches name senior All-Stars

Posted via APP.com:

The Shore Basketball Coaches Association Senior All-Star Games will take place at Freehold Township High School on March 24.

Freehold star #14 Christian Garcia shoots against Monmouth Regional earlier this season. Photo by Robert Ward 02/01/10 Tinton Falls.

The girls event will tap off at 6 p.m. The boys game will begin at 8 p.m. Read more

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Retirement didn’t suit Freehold Township woman

Posted via APP.com:

BY SUZY COULTER

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

How many times did we hear that as children or young adults? My answer was the same every time. I wanted to be a doctor. It was simple. I could help people, teach people, make people happy. Oh, how I wanted to do that. Read more

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Township Still Dealing with Storm Damage

This weekend's torrential downpours left the Freehold area flooded, powerless, and with a significant clean-up ahead of them. Have photos or a story about the storm's havoc? Send 'em to colleen@injersey.com and we'll get them posted.

According to the Freehold Township Emergency Management Coordinator Ray Piccolini, the rain led to power outages throughout town, including the Poet's Corner and Stonehurst sections of town. Power was restored to the majority of residents by mid-afternoon Sunday, but sporadic outages were still occuring as of 10AM this morning. Read more

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Another round of heavy rain on the way

It's the low pressure system that just won't quit.

Another round of moderate to heavy rain is currently moving through southern New England and is expected to rotate through Connecticut, Long Island, the New York City metropolitan area, much of New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania.  The heaviest rain is expected to be focused along the immediate coast with additional rainfall amounts of up to a half to three-fourths of an inch of rain.  Winds will continue to back to the northwest through the evening around 5 to 15 mph.

This round of rainfall should be the last significant area of rainfall to impact the northern Mid Atlantic before this storm exits into the Atlantic.

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Low pressure slowly exits, but another cloudy, damp day expected

Another day and more rain.  That's the best way to describe this dreary Monday morning.  Once again, the upper low that has plagued the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan area since Thursday continues to drive Atlantic moisture into the northern Mid Atlantic.

A 996 MB surface low roughly 200 miles southeast of Long Island is slowly exiting into the Atlantic.  However, the persistent northeasterly flow at almost all levels of the atmosphere continues to drive showers and periods of moderate rain into the coastal plain.  The heaviest rain is near an end as lifting will continue to weaken over the region, leading to the showers to become more scattered in nature and weaker overall.  The cool, damp conditions this morning will linger into the afternoon with temperatures remaining in the 40's through the day. Read more

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Showers linger through tomorrow morning, excellent conditions on the way

The area of low pressure responsible for widespread flooding, coastal flooding, and wind damage is finally starting to weaken over the central Mid Atlantic this morning.

The surface low and upper level structure of the storm have become vertically stacked.  What this means is the surface, 850 MB, 700 MB, and 500 MB low pressure systems are all on top of each other.  What this causes is a kind of joking off of the rising motion of the atmosphere, thus the surface low and other features begin to weaken as the strengthening and maintaining processes of the low pressure system comes to an end. Read more

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Showers and thunderstorms moving east from the Atlantic

The area of low pressure that has produced widespread flooding and wind damage continues to sit just southwest of the Philadelphia metropolitan area over central Maryland.

The low pressure system is currently drawing an area of showers and thunderstorms into the forecast area from the Atlantic.  These showers and thunderstorms are capable of heavy downpours, wind gusts over 40 mph, and even small hail.  Flash flooding will be enhanced by these showers and thunderstorms along with reducing visibility so use caution when driving this morning. Read more

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Curley’s Tactics Are No Surprise

Posted via MoreMonmouthMusings

That John Curley is shaking things up in Freehold should be no surprise to anyone. His tactics (detractors would say antics) are perfectly consistent with his past performance as a councilman in Red Bank and perfectly consistent with his performance on the campaign trail during the two previous elections. We got the Freeholder we nominated twice and elected on the second try. We didn’t get a collegial compromising team player. We got a maverick fighting Irishman. We got a loose cannon minority of one who doesn’t care whose toes he steps on or whose feelings he hurts.

Yet, even some of Curley’s strongest supporters are acting surprised, encouraging him to tone it down or making excuses for him.

“John is used to being in the minority, I need to talk to him,” one supporter said. He’s heard that before.

“I don’t disagree with what he’s trying to do, but I wish he’d tone it down and do it behind closed doors,” said another. Anyone who has seen Curley behind closed doors knows that the performances we are seeing in public is John toned down.

That is who we elected.

Curley may be crazy. Crazy like a fox. He knows he can’t negotiate the spending cuts he’s calling for behind closed doors.

Like the mavericks that preceded him on the Freeholder Board, Amy Handlin and Anna Little, Curley knows how to use the press and public opinion to forward his agenda.

Curley is always going to be outspoken and outrageous. That is who he is. He is not always going to be right, but in the case of the current county budget being considered, he is right.

We have more government than we can afford in New Jersey. Even in AAA rated Monmouth County. Even in Middletown, Highlands, Wall, Howell and insert the name of your town here.

Governor Christie is going to introduce a state budget next week that is likely to be shockingly painful in the cuts he calls for. I hope it is. We have more government than we can afford. We need to do the same in Monmouth County and in our hometowns. We can’t do more with less. We just need to do less. We need a cultural shift.

Taxpayers are already getting by with less, making painful choices and changing our lifestyles. We will accept less government services in exchange for more money to pay our mortgages and take care of our families.

Monmouth County and insert the name of your town and school board here must not raise property taxes this year. Even keeping taxes flat is too much.

Cut, cut, cut spending. Then cut it some more. A $10+ million or $7+ million tax increase on the county level is unacceptable. Anything other than a tax decrease is unacceptable.

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Rain and windy continues through this weekend

Heavy rain and winds sustained at 15 to 25 mph have been observed since last night as the first round of heavy rain continues to move through the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan area.

A break in the heavy rainfall is expected for late this morning into the early afternoon hours as a new coastal low takes shape once again.  As a new area of strong lifting develops over eastern portions of North Carolina and over the coastal waters of the Mid Atlantic, an area of sinking air has developed over Delaware and Maryland, which will push north over the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan area.  This break in the heavy rainfall will be marked by continued windy conditions, drizzle, and generally raw conditions with temperatures in the 40's to lower 50's. Read more

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Very heavy rain is on the way for New Jersey coast

The coastal low is clearly becoming the primary low pressure system this evening as very strong lifting is developing off the coast along with a classic satellite signature of cyclogenesis.

The radar this hour is clearly showing an area of very heavy rain just south of Cape May, New Jersey moving north towards the coast.  The rain currently over much of the forecast area will continue to drift north and west into the Hudson Valley and central New York as the new coastal low also drifts north. Read more

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Young and Musical at Heart: Applewood’s New Music Suite for Elderly Residents

At the end of one of the long residents’ corridors in Applewood Estates—the CentraState-affiliated senior living center in Freehold Township—the sound of violins can be heard singing uncertainly from inside a resident apartment.

Fran Redlich, 91, of Applewood Estates, has been playing the flute since she was 50.

“We think the acoustics sound pretty good so far,” says Marjorie Stine, 81, a resident and the center’s band and chorus leader as she taps the piano keys. Stine and five others—three with violins, one with a flute, and one on mandolin—are having their first rehearsal in the new resident music suite. Read more

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Wet rush hour marks the start of soaked weekend

The rain is here and it is not going to be stopping any time soon through this weekend, which will be a perfect time to catch up on some movies, a good book, or perhaps finally conquer a very difficult video game.  What ever you do this weekend, it likely will not be done outdoors.

Light to moderate rain continues to develop and expand north and west over much of the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan area.  This rainfall is not directly connected to what will be an impressive coastal storm tomorrow morning, but is a result of the developing moisture advection at the mid levels off the Atlantic and a stationary front positioned along the New Jersey coast.  The isentropic lifting produced by this frontal boundary is supporting the development of this rainfall, which will have breaks in the steady rain from time to time.  However, for this rush hour, steady rain and increasing winds from 15 to 20 mph with gusts over 25 mph can be expected for the New York City metropolitan area down through the northern Philadelphia metropolitan area.  More scattered rainfall can be expected further south and west, over the Hudson Valley, and Connecticut. Read more

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