Pine Beach News

Lack of notification - specifically failure to follow up faxes with phone calls - was the cause for a recently issued federal deficiency finding following an emergency exercise held at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant last month.

THE STAKES: Two three-year terms will be available on the Borough Council. THE CANDIDATES: Robert Budesa, 403 Washington Ave., and Matthew Abatemarco, 715 Radnor Ave., are Republicans and the incumbents.

Where seawater once surged, highway traffic follows curving approaches to the Route 37 bridges, passing a few bay islands that remain as mute reminders of the days when Toms River had its own ocean inlet.

Since January, I have hosted more than 45 community meetings, including nearly a dozen health care town halls this summer.

If you notice a commotion Aug. 22 at Central Regional Middle School on Pinewald-Keswick Road, do not panic.

Firefighters on Tuesday saved a puppy from the second house fire in the borough in two days, fire officials reported.

An early morning fire in a rental property was extinguished quickly Sunday with no injuries, fire officials said.

An early morning fire in a rental property was extinguished quickly Sunday with no injuries, fire officials said.

An early morning fire in a rental property was extinguished quickly Sunday with no injuries, fire officials said.

An early morning fire in a rental property was extinguished quickly Sunday with no injuries, fire officials said.

After working in the flower business for 40 years, John Franovic knows some encounters will be emotional.

PINE BEACH: The Pine Beach Environmental Commission will hold a special meeting and field study at 5:30 p.m. Aug.

The media lately has been focusing on unimportant events rather than major world events.

After three years of construction and renovation, the Pine Beach Yacht Club is once again a pride of the borough.

A borough man remains in jail after he assaulted his live-in girlfriend and threatened to kill her and police officers Friday night, police said.

It was like Christmas came early. The Neumann Foundation, based in Pine Beach, had spent 18 years raising the funds to donate 101 bicycles to police departments, in the memory of Essex County Police Officer Keith Neumann, who was accidentally shot and killed during a pre-dawn drug raid Aug.

The 11th Annual Pine Beach 5K and One Mile Riverside Run is scheduled for June 28, race officials said.

The Pine Beach 5k Scholarship Committee has announced its 2009 scholarship recipients, who are four local college-bound students.

A fascinated 6-year-old stuck his hand in a bucket and picked up a baby bluefish a seine net had snagged earlier that day.

A Berkeley man was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated early Sunday morning, police said.