Top Headlines This Week

A recap of the major news from Toms River from March 13 to 20.

In what the Toms River police chief called an accidental death, while unloading a box truck of leaves after 1:30 p.m. Friday. Longtime Department of Public Works Truck Driver Joseph Cisco, 53, of Toms River died from a head injury near the controls for the hydraulic lift of a box truck at the leaf compost facility on Whitesville Road on Friday afternoon.

A second tragic death involved pedestrian Carbonaro was crossing Route 70 near Whitesville Road on foot and was struck and killed by a westbound vehicle. The Toms River North sophomore's and had an outpouring of mourning.

On Thursday, an Ocean County grand jury handed down indictments for Jahmell Crockham, 19, . Toms River resident Danielle Hernandez, 27, was indicted on of Crockham.

Ocean County officials will not furlough workers or dig more deeply into their surplus to reduce the ninth of a cent increase in the county tax rate resulting from the proposed 2011 budget, Freeholder John C. Bartlett Jr. said Wednesday.

In the school board election race for three spots, the number of candidates shrunk to 10. , citing a lack of funding to properly get his message out.

The defense attorneys of former Superintendent Michael Ritacco to demand answers of the board publically, asking why the district had yet to release Ritacco's deferred compensation funds and payment of unused sick days.

On Sunday, March 13,of $40 late in the evening, with the suspect possibly armed, police said. 

Longtime downtown waterfront restaurant Jack Baker's Lobster Shanty is no more. will be the Water Street Bar and Grill, as massive renovations are underway. The Toms River restaurant has been closed all winter and expects a May grand opening.