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What is the answer to the heroin problem in New Jersey and right here at the Jersey Shore? Is it prevention, recovery or jail ? What do you think is the answer? Everyone has their own opinion... what is yours? Are we tough enough on those who sell heroin? ...

Last night members of the Community, Law Enforcement and Townsquare Media came together to discuss the epidemic of heroin here in Ocean County. "Hometown Heroin" took place Monday Night at the Jay & Linda Grunin Center For The Arts at Ocean County College in Toms River ...Thanks...

Do we have a heroin epidemic in Ocean and Monmouth Counties? According to the latest figures from Washington over 33,000 people died nationally (2015) due to heroin related deaths ... a staggering number. Local Congressman Tom MacArthur (NJ 3rd District) is part of a Bipartisan Heroin Task Force, an 85-member congressional panel looking at the issues of heroin and opioid abuse. Las...

I'm about to take some time off to help a friend who is having knee-replacement surgery.  I don't have any medical training but figure I can be her driver and take care of her while she's home recovering.  I'm prepared to do the cooking and cleaning...

Two contractors from Barnegat are facing charges after a five-month investigation by Stafford Police and the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office. Police arrested Michael Albanese, 52, and George Larosa, 46, on Friday on charges of Second-Degree Theft by Deception and Conspiracy to Commit Theft...

During the month of October, "Townsquare Tonight" is presenting a series entitled: "Sandy +3." This week, Part 2 takes a closer look at all that's been accomplished so far, and the work still left to be done. Our guests were United Way's Executive Director Linda Gyimoti and Construction Manager Robert Clark; Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity (NOHFH) Construction Manager Dick

Summer is - unofficially at least - underway, but thanks to Superstorm Sandy, tourists aren't the only ones longing for the shore.

Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund Chair and New Jersey First Lady Mary Pat Christie visited several sites down the shore to mark the 2-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy on Wednesday. The fund just announced its final round of grant awards this week as well, an additional $3...

When it comes to raising your home on piles for storm protection, you have to go down to go up. Structural engineer Steve Gencorelli, P.E. of Danbro Distributors, says the CHANCE Helical Piles distributed by Danbro Distributors work like a set of giant screws that anchor your home deep into the ground...

Toms River is celebrating another big stride in its post-Sandy recovery efforts with the reopening of the streets along the Ortley beachfront. Mayor Tom Kelaher says Ocean Avenue and Ocean Terrace have been shut down for the past 18 months as repair work progressed...