Lakehurst News

Participants in the ceremony will lay wreaths as a tribute to people who gave their lives in service to the country.

From Ocean County, Four Centuries in the Making, by Pauline S. Miller: "The Hindenburg disaster doomed future transatlantic flights of other big rigid airships.

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST - New Jersey's Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst has canceled its annual July Fourth celebration due to furloughs caused by congressionally mandated automatic budget cuts.

A zeppelin is the largest of what are called lighter-than-air craft, aircraft that fly by harnessing gases that , rather than using lift generated by wings or rotors like planes and helicopters do.

From Ocean County, Four Centuries in the Making, by Pauline S. Miller: "The Hindenburg made six crossings between Germany and America, proving its apparent safety.

Backbackback into time, as my "Time Machine" flies to Monday, May 11, 1981. Here's the local top 10 singles: Always loved this one.

If you're afraid that long-past scrape with the law will keep you from landing a job, there's some... Though budgets are tight and multiple combat-coded squadrons have been grounded, the Air Force is interested in saving marriages and giving airmen a break from the stress of military life.

Juice Newton was part of the first wave of country singers raised on rock, folk-rock, and singer/songwriters, which is evident from her hit singles.

The Lakehurst Flower & Garden Show was hailed a success. The Lakehurst Flower & Garden Show held Saturday April 27 at the Community Center has been hailed a great success.

Nearly two years have passed since municipal officials presented investors with a master plan that set a vision of the township as a center for business in New Jersey.

A 27-year-old Lakehurst man has been charged with possessing "graphic" images and movies of child pornography, authorities said.

Despite modern innovations in video technology, which is able to capture startlingly lifelike moving images down to the last pixel, sometimes the old-fangled black-and-white footage speaks with an unparalleled eloquence.

Seventy-six years ago, on May 6, 1937, Nazi Germany's prized LZ-129 Hindenburg airship crashed and burned in Lakehurst, New Jersey, creating this iconic photo.

It replaced USX, an ill-fated combination of steel and oil companies that was removed following its decision to have shares in each subsidiary trade independently.

1919 - The first commercial flight, from Canada to the U.S., occurs as a Canadian Curtiss aircraft flies 150 pounds of raw furs from Toronto to Elizabeth, N.J. 1937 - The Zeppelin Hindenburg bursts into flames and crashes while attempting a landing at Naval Air Engineering Station, Lakehurst, N.J.; of the 97 people on board, 35 are killed; one ... (more)

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The airship Hindenburg burns just prior to landing in Lakehurst, NJ, on May 6, 1937.

Two units are scheduled to conduct mortar and artillery-firing training at the Dix ranges between May 4-5 from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. According to a notification from West Windsor Police, the training units include the 1st Squadron, 102nd Cavalry ; New Jersey Army National Guard from Westfield; and the Golf Battery 3rd Battalion, 13th Marine Regiment ... (more)

The general public will not be permitted access to Monday's memorial service commemorating the 76th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Carl Jablonski, president of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, which organizes the event, said that is the decision of the military - made for unspecified security ... (more)

A 51-year-old Jackson man was arrested Wednesday after police said he lied to them about his identity before they discovered his license was suspended.