Hurricane Sandy

UPDATE: Nearly 247,000 Without Power in Ocean and Monmouth

Outages to increase as Sandy barrels towards the Shore

Update, 6 p.m.: Outages have reached 126,739 in Ocean County and 120,000 in Monmouth County. --- There are nearly 24,000 reported power outages in Monmouth and Ocean counties as of early Monday afternoon, according to a Jersey Central Power & Light map. As of early Monday afternoon, there were 23,559 outages reported in Monmouth and Ocean. However, there was no way to immediately learn if some without power have not reported it yet because they may have no means of communication without electricity. But according to the information available, the highest number of outages in one town in the two counties was Middletown, with 6,869. Another town with a high number of reported outages was Berkeley in southern Ocean County with 1,848. …

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17-year old Matawan Regional High School Student Dies of Bacterial Meningitis

County Board of Health to hold an information forum Monday evening at the High School, 8 p.m.

A county official confirmed Monday that Chris Dhume, a 17-year old student and star soccer player in the Matawan-Aberdeen School District, died early Saturday morning at Jersey Shore University Medical Center from bacterial meningitis. The cause of death is confirmed, said county spokeswoman Laura Kirkpatrick. On Monday, Jan. 24, at 8 p.m., the Monmouth County Department of Health will give information about bacterial meningitis and answer questions in a public forum at the High School at 450 Atlantic Avenue, Matawan.  The Board of Education meeting has been moved to Wednesday, according to a notice on the district website. The community is trying to cope with the sudden death of a star athlete, who lived in the Cliffwood section of …

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