Rosetta Key is a News Anchor and Reporter for Townsquare Media's Ocean/Monmouth County Bureau. She's covered news in New Jersey for over 15 years and is the winner of the 2007 and 2008 New Jersey Associated Press Broadcaster's Association Award for Best News Series.
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Neptune Launches a New Initiative to Prevent Minors from Buying Alcohol
A Monmouth County police department partners with Prevention First of Ocean Township and local businesses that sell alcohol in a new initiative to prevent underage drinking. It's called the 100% Proofing Policy, according to Neptune Police Lieutenant Mike McGhee...
Box Truck with Oxygen Tanks Flips Over in Barnegat
Barnegat Police were on high alert when a box-truck containing pressurized oxygen tanks overturned on Route 539. Police said the Penske rental truck left the roadway and damaged a utility poll before flipping over near Route 72 late yesterday morning...
Several Animals Die in a Manchester Barn Fire
A number of animals were lost in a raging barn fire in the Whiting section of Manchester late Thursday morning. Township police said they received a 9-1-1 call at around 11:45 am that a barn was on fire behind 318 Beckerville Road. When officers arrived, the barn was engulfed in flames...
Sweeping Reforms are Coming to the National Flood Insurance Program
New Jersey U.S. Senator Bob Menendez meets with Superstorm Sandy victims today in a press conference to outline new measures aimed at cleaning up the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Menendez said he's gotten assurances from FEMA Deputy Associate Administrator Brad Kieserman that they will collect and make available to every policy holder all alterations of engineering reports...
United Water Toms River Makes its Case For a Rate Increase
United Water Toms River, a subsidiary of French-based Suez Environment, takes it's request for a $5.2 million dollar base rate increase to the state Board of Public Utilities (BPU). Jim Mastrokalos, the utility's Director of Operations, said the request reflects over $22 million in capital investments since its last rate hike request in 2013...
MacArthur Alleges FEMA’s Complicity with Insurance Companies
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A bold and surprising assertion about The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from New Jersey's 3rd District (R) Congressman Tom MacArthur. The freshman representative, who's made his fortune in the insurance industry, alleges that FEMA wasn't a hapless government agency that stood idly by while observing the "big bad" insurance companies taking advantag
Manchester Police Locate Mysterious Vehicle that Triggered Alert
Manchester police have located the mysterious Blue Chevy Trail Blazer seen parked near school bus stops in the Pine Lake Park section. After multiple interviews with the driver, police said the vehicle doesn't appear to be a child safety issue for township residents...
Natural Gas Odor Reported at LEH Elementary School
Reports of a gas odor inside the George J. Mitchell Elementary School in Little Egg Harbor Township forces the temporary shut down of natural gas to the North Green Street building. New Jersey Natural Gas Spokesman Mike Kinney said they were notified by township police about the odor at 1:33 pm on Tuesday and had crews on the scene at 2:08 pm...
Sandy Victim Forms Expert Panel to Discuss Recovery Issues
One of the leaders of a proposed lawsuit challenging the state and federal
government's anemic response to Sandy victims, has put together a panel of public policy experts to come up with solutions this week. Dr. Phil Nufrio of Stop FEMA Now, who's also a Public Administration Professor at the Metropolitan College of New York, is organizing the panel at the American Society of Public Administratio
Tech Fest Returns to Ocean County in April
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An all day music festival with twenty bands on two sound stages is an enormous task for any professional concert promoter. However, all the task that come with putting on a music festival, including performing, will be handled by high school students from the Ocean County Vocational and Technical School's Lakehurst-based Performing Arts Academy in April...