Friday, May 24, 2013
Getting the word out that the Shore is open for business is key, however
The road to a summer filled with music, dancing and plenty of partying in Seaside Heights began on a Saturday afternoon in December, two months to the day Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey Shore. That was the day John Kern, lead singer of cover band Shorty Long and the Jersey Horns, and his 11 bandmates performed at The Beachcomber Bar and Grill for the first time since the storm struck. In fact, it was the first time any band had played in the borough since Oct. 29. Slowly but surely, most of the Shore's cathedrals of nightlife began to reopen after they were damaged during the storm. Though not as profitable as the lucrative summer season, the vast majority of the region's bars and nightclubs remain open year round, and as …
Friday, May 3, 2013
Both the party boat crowd and shore-based locals getting in on the action
As local anglers try their collective hands at spring fishing after a tough winter all around, the striped bass seem to be cooperating as water temperatures slowly rise. Starting in the northern reaches of this column's publication area, the crew of the Big Mohawk out of Belmar finished their blackfish season this week and decided to dabble in the bass fishery on Tuesday. The result: everyone on board got their limit of stripers. "I know that is what so many of you have been waiting to hear," Capt. Chris wrote on the boat's website. The boat, which sails 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, had a similarly good day Thursday after taking Wednesday off. Few reports came in from the suds in the Manasquan and Point Pleasant areas, but anecdotally, anglers …
Friday, February 8, 2013
Heavy rain causes big puddles, but little in the way of tidal flooding on LBI
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Daniel Nee
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
People from Maine to Hawaii and all points in between join with local volunteers to restore the shore.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Steve Moran
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Even before Sandy’s first gusts reached our shores, volunteers from the entire United States were on their way to southern Ocean County and all East Coast areas soon to be devastated. Many of them are still here or have rotated out to be replaced by others from their organizations. Members of the Fraternal Order of Police had arrived from as far away as Missouri and Louisiana at the Long Beach Township Municipal Complex. They set up a kitchen and for the next two weeks as the building served as the command center for LBI’s Emergency Management Operations and the National Guard, they fed the police, first responders, National Guard and EOC personnel. As the storm passed, more FOP members fanned out with cleaning supplies, equipment and …
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Clean-up and restoration with a dose of humor all go hand in hand as Long Beach Island recovers from Sandy.
Long Beach Island residents - except those from Holgate - returned to their homes Saturday morning, beginning at 6 a.m. During a Friday afternoon news conference in Seaside Heights on Friday, Governor Christie announced that the Route 72 causeway bridge will be open. Christie said the state will allow residents controlled access to assess damage, retrieve belongings and permit repopulation of the island for residents whose homes are safe and habitable. Here is a short photo tour before Saturday's reopening. People should procede with caution as there is still a lot of work going on and dangerous conditions in many areas.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Surf City already being impacted by Sandy
Friday, June 1, 2012
Captains reporting better catches this week
The fluke bite is finally attracting the attention of more captains as the season gets into full swing for the tasty flatfish. On board the Jamaica II party boat out of Brielle, fluke are "getting in the chewing mood more and more each day," said Capt. Ryan. According to the captain's report, the best action has been seen off the beach, and anglers this week have been putting together a nice collection of keepers. Anecdotally, I've heard about steady fluke fishing all week in the Manasquan River. As usual, try the channel edges off Clark's Landing and the small channels just west of the Route 35 bridge. There's no huge secrets or tactical approaches required in the Manasquan. Pick your spot and fish! In Barnegat Bay, blues continued to be …
Sunday, December 18, 2011
LBI venue planning next year's season following approval of payoff plans
Surflight Theatre representatives announced Monday that, after 10 months of negotiations, the theater has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is planning its 2012 season. The popular Beach Haven community theater, founded in 1950, filed for bankruptcy in February 2011, said Tim Laczynski, who took over leadership of the company along with artistic director Roy Miller in September 2010. Laczynski, a Broadway and off-Broadway producer, said the pair inherited a theater overburdened with short-term debt that threatened to destroy it. “They’d pretty much maxed themselves out,” Laczynski said. “We were in a cash pinch and had about $3,000 in the bank.” A public appeal drew a lot of support from the community, he said, but …
Friday, April 1, 2011
ASMFC decision will significantly cut back on sea bass harvest
I know some of you have probably been thinking in recent weeks, “geez, this is the most depressing fishing column I’ve ever read!” Well, get ready to have your point proven again. We’re about to lose 40 percent of our recreational sea bass quota. Don’t shoot me, hook me or gaff me – I’m just the messenger. A March 28 ruling from the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has established new state shares for black sea bass that will see the overall recreational quota reduced. “The 2010 regulations resulted in a preliminary estimated harvest of 2.98 million pounds, approximately 1.15 million pounds above the 2010 target,” said ASMFC spokeswoman Tina Berger in a news release. “Given that the 2010 regulations were not effective in staying…
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Technology has offered us new emotions; has surfing helped us to hold on to the old ones?
The current technological superboom has completely changed the way in which we think, plan, act and react. So much occurs now in such real-time that a new standard of value has been achieved, ramping up our expectations that anything we want must be given to us at this very moment, and that anything that we want to do must happen at a moment’s notice. Technophobic pundits have posited that this superboom has had the consequence of giving us "new emotions" -- such as the worried feeling we get if the recipient of a text message does not immediately answer a sent text, or the strange new feeling of receiving a letter in the mail and wondering how this person could have gotten our address, and the shifty-eyed paranoia that immediately follows…
its over
6:22 pm on Sunday, May 5, 2013
1 flounder, sea bass closed,blackfish closed. Fluke need to be halibut size. NJ sucks so bad you people dont even realize. more ›