Radel, Dan. "Ocean Township mayor quits after Murphy appointment to run Monmouth County elections", Asbury Park Press, October 19, 2022. Accessed May 1, 2023. "Gov. Phil Murphy's appointment of Mayor Christopher P. Siciliano to be the new Monmouth County superintendent of elections was approved by the state Senate on Monday.... Siciliano, 63, served as mayor since 2015. That role will now pass to Deputy Mayor John Napolitano Jr. on an interim basis. By law, the township has 30 days to fill the vacant council seat left by the departure of Siciliano."
Radell, Dan. 'Mayor's ticket sweeps Ocean Twp. election", Asbury Park Press, May 13, 2015. Accessed June 29, 2015. "Incumbent Mayor Christopher P. Siciliano was the top vote-getter with 3,001 votes, about 15 percent of the vote. Running on the One Ocean ticket with Siciliano were: Deputy Mayor William Garofalo, who received the second-most votes, with 2,793; incumbent council members Richard Long, 2,614, and Donna Schepiga, 2,490; and newcomer Robert Acerra, 2,775."
Radel, Dan. "Loch Arbour votes to leave Ocean Twp. schools", Asbury Park Press, April 4, 2017. Accessed August 1, 2018. "Village voters have decided by an overwhelming margin to leave the Ocean Township School District and forge a (cheaper) different path. The tally Tuesday was 93 in favor to 4 opposed, according to the unofficial results from the Office of the Monmouth County Clerk.... The village's per-pupil education cost for Ocean Township now totals about $143,000, according to Mayor Paul Fernicola. He said the village will instead send students to West Long Branch and Shore Regional High School on a per-pupil tuition rate, not yet determined, that is substantially less than the current tab."
Raum, John O. The History of New Jersey: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 1, J. E. Potter and company, 1877. Accessed December 6, 2012. "Ocean township contained in 1860, 3,768 inhabitants; in 1860, 4,346; and in 1870, 6,189." Note that the first reference to 1860 appears to be a typo, and should be 1850, which would match the population listed by the 1850 Census.
Porter, Robert Percival. Preliminary Results as Contained in the Eleventh Census Bulletins: Volume III - 51 to 75, p. 99. United States Census Bureau, 1890. Accessed July 31, 2012. Population is listed for Ocean Township including Long Branch town as 6,027 in 1880 and 10,209 in 1890, while population for Long Branch town is listed as 3,833 in 1880 and 7,231 in 1890, with results for the two years calculated by subtracting the data for Long Branch from the combined total.
Gambaccini, Peter. "Bruce Springsteen, p. 71. Perigee Books, 1985. ISBN9780399511509. Accessed July 24, 2014. "Carl 'Tinker' West, owner of a surfboard factory in Ocean Township, let Bruce live upstairs over the factory in 1970, and in that same year drove Springsteen to California for a gig that paid $2,200."
Lovegrove, Nick. The Mosaic Principle: The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career, p. 53. PublicAffairs, 2016. ISBN9781610395571. Accessed May 16, 2017. "At the time, Wigdortz was just the junior analyst on the McKinsey team, an American from Ocean Township, New Jersey, who had recently transferred to the London office after a series of early professional experiences in the United States and Far East, and who had been almost randomly assigned to this engagement."
Conohan, Sherry. "2 women undertaking challenge of the channel", CentralJersey.com, May 28, 2004. Accessed January 19, 2021. "Nancy Steadman Martin, of Oceanport, and Michelle Davidson, of the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, are training together for their back-to-back swims, scheduled for Aug. 7-14."
Members List:Clerks, Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey. Accessed July 19, 2022.
Members List: Sheriffs, Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey. Accessed July 19, 2022.
Members List: Surrogates, Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey. Accessed July 19, 2022.
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Home Page, Deal Lake Commission. Accessed July 8, 2015. "The Deal Lake Commission was created by the seven Monmouth County, NJ towns that surround Deal Lake. The Commission was chartered in 1974 by the Borough of Allenhurst, City of Asbury Park, Borough of Deal, Borough of Interlaken, Village of Loch Arbour, Neptune Township, and Ocean Township."
Walter, Kenny. "Ocean Township welcomes new mayor in 2015"Archived January 9, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Atlanticville, January 8, 2015. Accessed January 12, 2015. "For the first time since 2002, a new person is sitting in the mayor's seat in Ocean Township.Councilman Christopher Siciliano was appointed mayor during a Jan. 1 ceremony, replacing longtime Mayor William Larkin, who announced his retirement in November. The council is expected to vote Jan. 7 to appoint Richard Long, who is currently vice president of the Ocean Township School District Board of Education, to serve the remainder of Larkin's council term, according to Siciliano."
Staff. "Former Ocean Twp. mayor gets 58-month prison term "Archived September 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Atlanticville, August 30, 2007. Accessed July 31, 2012. "Terrance D. Weldon, former mayor of Ocean Township and the city manager for Asbury Park, was sentenced Aug. 27 to 58 months in federal prison for extorting more than $60,000 in cash bribes from three developers between 1998 and 2001, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. U.S. District Judge William H. Walls also fined Weldon $20,000 and ordered Weldon to surrender to the federal Bureau of Prisons by Jan. 21 to begin serving his sentence."
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O'Connell, Carolyn. "Larkin selected as township's mayor"Archived September 19, 2003, at the Wayback Machine, Atlanticville, October 18, 2002. Accessed May 11, 2007. "On Oct. 10, Terrance D. Weldon, who was also the Asbury Park city administrator, pleaded guilty before Judge William H. Walls in federal court in Newark to taking $64,000 in bribes."
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Morris, Tim. "Sarafian is national champion after Adidas meet", The Hub, June 25, 2004. Accessed January 1, 2017. "'Just hearing it is so cool,' said Ocean Township's Adam Sarafian, who can claim that title after winning the pole vault at last weekend's Adidas Outdoor Track and Field Championships at North Carolina State University in Raleigh."
Home Page, American Association of the Township of Ocean. Accessed July 5, 2022.
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Anderson, Teja. "People On The Move - John Nies"Archived October 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, LivingMedia, June 27, 2010. Accessed August 14, 2012. "John Nies grew up in Ocean Township with his two sisters Kim and Tara and younger brother Eric (yes, the guy from MTV's The Real World), his parents, mother Anna May, a pre-school teacher and father Jack who was one of the longest running referees in NBA history. John Attended Ocean Township High School after his experiences in private school were not so pleasant. 'I went to RBC for two semesters and I got abused and hazed on the bus.'"
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The Township of Ocean, League of Women Voters of Monmouth County. Accessed May 1, 2023. "Its nearly 30,000 residents live in neighborhoods still bearing strong sectional identities. Locals are as likely to say they live in “Oakhurst,” “Wanamassa,” or “Wayside,” for instance, as they are to say “Ocean Township.” This dispersion is reflected in the Township’s five different ZIP codes."
Fox, Joey. "Gopal wins re-election; Democrats pick up two 11th district Assembly seats", New Jersey Globe, November 7, 2023. Accessed November 18, 2023. "State Sen. Vin Gopal (D-Long Branch) has won re-election, the New Jersey Globe projects, a huge win for the two-term senator after a grueling and competitive campaign. Gopal’s Assembly running mates, Ocean Township Councilwoman Margie Donlon and former Municipal Court Judge Luanne Peterpaul, have won as well, defeating two incumbent Republican Assemblywomen, Marilyn Piperno (R-Colts Neck) and Kim Eulner (R-Shrewsbury)."
Larsen, Erik. "Search for truth yields Pulitzer; Book documents atrocities in Kenya", Asbury Park Press, April 30, 2006. Accessed March 7, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Princeton was next, then Harvard and after that, halfway around the world to Kenya Today a Harvard University professor and married with two young sons, Caroline Elkins is one of the nation's foremost scholars on African history and a renowned expert on a little-known brutal chapter in the post-World War II history of British colonialism in Africa.... Elkins doesn't get back to Ocean Township as often as she would like, not since her family moved away after she graduated from high school."
"Local Happenings; Asbury Park Area", Asbury Park Press, February 13, 1968. Accessed January 1, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Jonathan Vegosen, Deal Park, and Lewis Tucker, West Allenhurst, both Ocean Township, received gold keys for their membership in the honor service organization, the Gold Key, at Peddie School, Hightstown, at Founders Day exercises Sunday."
Music, Asbury Park Press, July 7, 1946. Accessed February 14, 2018. "While not a native son, Tommy Tucker, popular orchestra leader, has been intimately connected with the Shore for a number of years. He has made his home in West Allenhurst since 1941 when he came here to fill an engagement with his band at the Berkeley-Carteret hotel during the summer of that year."
D'Alessandro, Dave. "This ref is doubly grand", The Star-Ledger, April 15, 2008. Accessed November 2, 2016. "And because he lived just down the street in Ocean Township, he was good enough that Holzman invited him back the next night, and the next, and the next."
"3-star Ocean Township QB Kenny Pickett talks re-opening his recruitment", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 23, 2016, updated August 23, 2019. Accessed April 29, 2022. "Last Monday, Ocean Township (Oakhurst, N.J.) junior quarterback Kenny Pickett decommitted from the Temple Owls, re-opening his recruitment, as he garnered new opportunities following a string of dominant camp performances this spring."
Voger, Mark. "'The Dark Knight Rises' executive producer remembers", The Star-Ledger, May 29, 2012. Accessed August 20, 2012. "Uslan, a Jersey City native who grew up in Ocean Township, achieved that goal as executive producer of eight Batman movies beginning with the 1989 film "Batman," directed by Tim Burton, and including the forthcoming "The Dark Knight Rises," directed by Christopher Nolan.... 'By the time I graduated Ocean Township High School (in 1969), I had a collection of 30,000 comic books dating back to 1936, which took up my folks' entire garage.'"
Staff. "Scholar-in-Residence welcomes first female rabbi, Sally Priesand", Parsippany Life, April 13, 2012. Accessed October 29, 2013. "On Friday, March 16, Temple Beth Am in Parsippany welcomed Rabbi Sally Priesand, America's first female rabbi, for the temple's annual Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat Services and Program.... Rabbi Priesand, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, lives in Ocean Township."
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Fishman, Steve. "How New York's Shock Jockette Got Supersized", New York, October 16, 2005. Accessed December 3, 2007. "As a youngster, Wendy did not seem destined for success on the radio, or anywhere else. She grew up in Wayside, New Jersey, an upper-middle-class part of Ocean Township, one of four black students in her class, and one of the heaviest of any race."
Harvin, Al. "An Offseason Game; New Jersey Sports", The New York Times, January 12, 1973. Accessed December 15, 2007. "When Bob Davis was a senior at Neptune (N.J.) High School he had a decision to make-play basketball, or football. He chose football. "I was actually a much better basketball player in high school than I was a football player," says Davis, now a resident of Wayside, N.J., and the backup quarterback to Joe Namath of the New York Jets."
Hall, Trisha. "Habitats/Elizabeth Street; A Loft for Living, Working and Sharing", The New York Times, April 23, 2000. Accessed July 31, 2012. "When Mr. Nies first saw the space he was, by his own description, living nowhere. Sometimes he stayed with friends in Manhattan, sometimes with his mother in Ocean Township, in southern New Jersey."
Harvin, Al. "An Offseason Game; New Jersey Sports", The New York Times, January 12, 1973. Accessed November 16, 2008. "Some of the other Jersey residents on the team, according to Davis, are Bob Tucker, the New York Giants' tight end from Lincroft; Phil Villapiano, Oakland Raider linebacker from Ocean Township, and Ron Johnson, Giant running back, now a resident of Fort Lee."
Our Schools, Township of Ocean School District. Accessed April 19, 2020.
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Mayor and Council, Township of Ocean. Accessed May 1, 2023. "The Township of Ocean’s five-member, non-partisan Council operate under the Council-Manager form of government. Council members serve four-year concurrent terms. The Council is elected at large with the Mayor elected among the Council members.... All present Council terms expire June 30, 2023."
Administration, Township of Ocean. Accessed May 1, 2023.
Township Clerk, Township of Ocean. Accessed May 1, 2023.
About Our TownArchived July 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Township of Ocean. Accessed July 31, 2012. "We are presently bordered by Eatontown and West Long Branch on the north; Long Branch, Deal, Allenhurst and Interlaken on the east, Neptune and Asbury Park on the south; and Tinton Falls on the west. Our many neighborhoods include Oakhurst, Wayside, Wanamassa, West Allenhurst, Deal Park, Colonial Terrace, Shadow Lawn Manor, and West Deal."
"Oren Liebermann joins CBS3, CW Philly as reporter", Philly Ad Club, August 20, 2010. Accessed October 29, 2018. "Liebermann was raised in Israel and at the Jersey shore in Wayside, New Jersey near Asbury Park."
Bowman, Bill. "Ocean Twp. woman enters race for GOP Assembly nod" , Asbury Park Press, February 16, 2007. Accessed October 29, 2013. "She didn't go as public with her candidacy as others did, but Ocean Township resident Mary Pat Angelini is no less committed than her opponents to being one of the Republican candidates for the Assembly from the 11th District."
"Paris When it Sizzles" , Asbury Park Press, October 22, 2006. Accessed October 29, 2013. "The Dauphins then bought a home in the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township. 'We had a beautiful home; it was called Peter Pan Farm,' Eberhardt says."
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Biography of Bob Menendez, United States Senate, January 26, 2015. "Menendez, who started his political career in Union City, moved in September from Paramus to one of Harrison's new apartment buildings near the town's PATH station.."
Ocean Township Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Ocean Township School District. Accessed April 19, 2020. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades kindergarten through 12 in the Township of Ocean School District. Composition: The Township of Ocean School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of the Township of Ocean and the Village of Loch Arbour."
Clark, William. "Ocean Township Welcomes New Council Member", The Coaster, November 16, 2022. Accessed May 1, 2023. "The Ocean Township Council appointed Kelly Terry to take the vacant position left by former Mayor Chris Siciliano, who resigned to take a position with the county. It’s the first time the council has had two women members. John Napolitani, who had been serving as deputy mayor and was sworn in as mayor last week, said that the governing body interviewed 'five very dynamic candidates,' but ultimately decided on Terry."
Stine, Don. "Ocean Names New Councilman", The Coaster, January 25, 2017. Accessed February 18, 2017. "John Napolitani, a former Interlaken Borough Council member and current alternate member of the Ocean Township Board of Adjustment, has been appointed to fill the unexpired term of former Ocean Township Deputy Mayor William Garofalo, who stepped down at the end of last year."
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USF2000 – Summer Vacation Over for HindmanArchived June 30, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Trent Hindman, August 12, 2012. Accessed October 25, 2015. "While Trent Hindman's senior year at Ocean Township High School doesn't begin until September 5th, his open-wheel education picks up after a six-week break this weekend at Mid-Ohio Sport Car Course, for Round 6 and 7 of the 2012 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda. 'I can't wait to get back into the car', said Hindman from his Wayside, N.J. home."
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Serrano, Ken via Asbury Park Press. "N.J. family sentenced in ex-husband's murder", USA Today, August 8, 2013. Accessed September 13, 2015. "Kathleen Dorsett addresses the court before she was sentenced to 58 years for the murder of her ex-husband outside her Ocean Township, N.J., home in 2010."
Monmouth County Government, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Accessed July 19, 2022. "Monmouth County is governed by five commissioners elected at-large for three-year terms. Each January, the freeholders select one of their members to serve as the director of the board for the year to preside over the meetings and activities of the Board."
About Our TownArchived July 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Township of Ocean. Accessed July 31, 2012. "We are presently bordered by Eatontown and West Long Branch on the north; Long Branch, Deal, Allenhurst and Interlaken on the east, Neptune and Asbury Park on the south; and Tinton Falls on the west. Our many neighborhoods include Oakhurst, Wayside, Wanamassa, West Allenhurst, Deal Park, Colonial Terrace, Shadow Lawn Manor, and West Deal."
Walter, Kenny. "Ocean Township welcomes new mayor in 2015"Archived January 9, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Atlanticville, January 8, 2015. Accessed January 12, 2015. "For the first time since 2002, a new person is sitting in the mayor's seat in Ocean Township.Councilman Christopher Siciliano was appointed mayor during a Jan. 1 ceremony, replacing longtime Mayor William Larkin, who announced his retirement in November. The council is expected to vote Jan. 7 to appoint Richard Long, who is currently vice president of the Ocean Township School District Board of Education, to serve the remainder of Larkin's council term, according to Siciliano."
O'Connell, Carolyn. "Larkin selected as township's mayor"Archived September 19, 2003, at the Wayback Machine, Atlanticville, October 18, 2002. Accessed May 11, 2007. "On Oct. 10, Terrance D. Weldon, who was also the Asbury Park city administrator, pleaded guilty before Judge William H. Walls in federal court in Newark to taking $64,000 in bribes."
Staff. "Former Ocean Twp. mayor gets 58-month prison term "Archived September 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Atlanticville, August 30, 2007. Accessed July 31, 2012. "Terrance D. Weldon, former mayor of Ocean Township and the city manager for Asbury Park, was sentenced Aug. 27 to 58 months in federal prison for extorting more than $60,000 in cash bribes from three developers between 1998 and 2001, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. U.S. District Judge William H. Walls also fined Weldon $20,000 and ordered Weldon to surrender to the federal Bureau of Prisons by Jan. 21 to begin serving his sentence."
USF2000 – Summer Vacation Over for HindmanArchived June 30, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Trent Hindman, August 12, 2012. Accessed October 25, 2015. "While Trent Hindman's senior year at Ocean Township High School doesn't begin until September 5th, his open-wheel education picks up after a six-week break this weekend at Mid-Ohio Sport Car Course, for Round 6 and 7 of the 2012 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda. 'I can't wait to get back into the car', said Hindman from his Wayside, N.J. home."
Anderson, Teja. "People On The Move - John Nies"Archived October 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, LivingMedia, June 27, 2010. Accessed August 14, 2012. "John Nies grew up in Ocean Township with his two sisters Kim and Tara and younger brother Eric (yes, the guy from MTV's The Real World), his parents, mother Anna May, a pre-school teacher and father Jack who was one of the longest running referees in NBA history. John Attended Ocean Township High School after his experiences in private school were not so pleasant. 'I went to RBC for two semesters and I got abused and hazed on the bus.'"
The Wendy Williams Experience, VH1. Accessed May 14, 2007. "Wendy grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Communications (with a minor in journalism) from Northeastern University in Boston."
