Vigil Planned For Hazlet Mom Who Tried To Save Daughter In House Fire

Also In Local News:  Howell man fires gun outside home, faces charges.  Alligator abandoned in Neptune.

Tragic news from last Friday in the Bayshore region, house fire claimed the lives of two and now the Monmouth County mother who was killed trying to save her daughter in that fire in Hazlet will be honored in a vigil tonight.  Sadly, the mother and daughter lost their lives in the blaze, 39-year-old Jacqueline Montanaro and her six-year-old daughter Madelyn.  A candlelight vigil is set for six o-clock tonight near the gazebo at Hazlet's Veteran Park.

A man in Howell is looking at firearms charges after shooting a gun at people in his front yard just past midnight on Sunday morning.  Pietro Ventricelli told investigators that he thought people were robbing his car, but it turned out to be his live-in girlfriend’s son and his friends being picked up by a rideshare.  He’s looking at attempted murder and other problems with the law.

Middletown Township will offer free tutoring to students in elementary through high school who suffered learning loss because of COVID-19.  It’s through the Next Generation Support Program, which was created to help students recover from the pandemic.  The program will run for six weeks, beginning this Saturday, in the Community Room at the Middletown Township Public Library.

Some idiot abandoned a juvenile alligator on Bangs avenue in Neptune.  A 3 month old gator was found in a plastic container in a parking lot.  Monmouth County SPCA recovered it and the gator will be turned over to the New Jersey Department of Fish and Wildlife.