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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

'Train' and Sea Bright Rise Above Sandy

The popular recording artists played a benefit for area first responders and Sea Bright residents Wednesday night.

It started with a Tweet, just a heads up from a local high schooler to the lead singer of mega-popular music mainstay for the last decade that he check out a video online. Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School student Charolotte Nagy’s simple request that Train lead singer Pat Monahan watch her documentary on the devastation of Hurricane Sandy culminated Wednesday night with an intimate free concert for the first responders and residents of one of the shore’s most devastated towns, Sea Bright. Wednesday’s outdoor concert, held in the parking lot of the Sea Bright Police Department, bookended by a ravaged beach on one side and a darkened downtown retail row on the other, attracted a crowd of about 500 people, all of them first responders, …

janet De Palma

1:33 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012

wow What a great night. He really lifted everyones spirits.Between our mayor, the owner of Woody's, Charlotte Nagy and Train we are so blessed. I was in my condo getting ready to move out because it needs to be gutted. This was just the night I needed   more ›

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

NJ Transit Train Conductor Charged in Ticketing Scheme

Police say the crime occurred on the North Jersey Coast Line over the past year.

A NJ Transit train conductor and his accomplice are accused of operating a scheme to defraud the transit agency of thousands of dollars of ticket money over a one-year period. Conductor Robert Broschart, 49, of Howell and Phillip Swanger, 45, of Bradley Beach were arrested following a seven-month investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and NJ TRANSIT Police. Broschart faces charges of official misconduct, theft and conspiracy. Swanger is charged with theft and conspiracy. The scheme depended on the complicity of "multiple" commuter-passengers, who paid Broschart, not NJ Transit, for their fares, said police. According to the report of the seven month investigation, Swanger recruited the commuters to pay Broschart a …

NJTCommuter

12:32 pm on Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The law is the law, no matter what the case is. You break it, you pay for it. People should know by now that when you try to cheat the system, you eventually get caught.   more ›

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