Beach Haven News

Jersey Shore towns where beachfront-property owners deny public access to bathers may have difficulty obtaining federal funds to repair damage caused by a severe nor'easter this month.

A memorial flower garden is to be created in memory of Joseph Veitch, who drove the Beach Haven School bus for about 18 years.

It will be a few days before emergency workers along the New Jersey and Delaware shores are finished tallying the damage left by the last Nor'easter. In Ocean City broken decks show just how powerful the waves were as they crashed ashore.

Geraldine Vandegrift Hulick, of Beach Haven, N.J., daughter of Kenneth "Red" Vandegrift, runs her hand along a sign later attached to the "black bridge" in Phillipsburg.

Emergency management officials fanned out along the southern New Jersey coast on Tuesday, cataloguing damage to dunes, beaches and property from last week's nor'easter ... even as local towns tallied tens of millions of dollars of their own damage claims.

Last week's nor'easter caused "spotty" shoreline damage, with some beaches getting whacked and others holding up well, a coastal expert said today.

Edward Emerson Jr., 82, passed from this life on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. He was born in New York City on Jan.

The Ocean County Historical Society is sponsoring a "holiday magic bus trip," including lunch and a theatrical production of "A Musical Christmas Carol" at Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven on Dec.

Nearly a decade after a first attempt, residents on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to abandon the commission form of municipal government.

Work has started on a boroughwide residential water meter installation project, partially funded with money from the federal stimulus package, officials said.

The Sea Shell Resort and Beach Club's annual striped bass derby is a family tradition for the Vernon and Brooks families.

Like everyone else in southern Ocean County, the captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association are still drying out and thanking their lucky stars for a lack of serious damage from last weekenda s double northeaster.

My name is Jim Vogel and I am candidate for the office of commissioner in the Nov.

When Walt Willey was scouting out an appropriate property for the maiden voyage of his own WilleyWorld Community Productions in his hometown of Ottawa, Ill., he gravitated almost immediately to an oft-produced play that the television actor regarded as "simply a natural." "It made sense; it was a pretty good fit," the veteran soap opera star said ...

Many of us who love Long Beach Island in the summer will return yet again for LBI's biggest autumnal boost, a mass slurping of chowder that can be heard from Holgate to Barnegat Light.

Helen and Thom Sweeney with their youngest son, Brad, and his dog, Casey, outside their summer home in North Beach Haven, N.J. In summer, Brad lives on his boat next to the home they call "The Shack," one of three Sweeney boats that bob in the bay.

Despite the desperate efforts of his home health aide who was overcome by smoke, a disabled, 86-year-old man died in a fire that consumed his home at 8 W. 60th St.

STAFFORD - Before Southern Regional High School was built, Tuckerton High School educated teenagers from Manahawkin to New Gretna from 1927 to 1957 and some from Long Beach Island in-between. A reunion for all classes drew people from all over the country Sept.

The summer flounder season may have ended in New Jersey, but the captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association are finding good fishing on the inshore wrecks and artificial reefs.

The following are real estate transactions reported by the county clerk's office.