Tom Kelaher

It's long been an eye sore ridden with drug busts and arrests and now the Red Carpet Inn in downtown Toms River officially belongs in the hands of the township following a completed purchase.

Toms River has joined a list of New Jersey towns who have or will be adding armed police officers to their schools heading into the 2018-19 academic year.

Toms River has joined a list of New Jersey towns who have or will be adding armed police officers to their schools.

An independent audit of the township's finances found that they are in good shape for the sixth year in a row.

Republican Don Guardian who lost handily in the November election to Democrat Frank Gilliam Jr. and failed to retain his seat as mayor of Atlantic City now comes to Toms River Township to succeed Paul Shives as business administrator as of January 1, 2018.

How would you like to join Toms River's finest next summer?

The annual Veterans Day Parade in downtown Toms River has a new date, at least for this year with schools closed the entire week of the holiday.

We're nearing the four-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy in New Jersey and many across the state are still recovering and rebuilding. On Friday Governor Chris Christie announced at the East Dover Fire Company in Toms River, towns may apply for a reimbursement of funds they used to recover from the storm.

On the two year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy Toms River Mayor Thomas Kelaher held up a photo showing the destruction within the Township immediately after the storm. "We stopped in the road and we looked at all of this and we said 'where do you even start to begin where to clean this up?'."