Seaside Park 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 year 2007 was a dark one for the Seaside Park Police Department. By the end of that year, 14 lawsuits had been filed against the police department in federal court by people who claimed police had used excessive force against them, including, in several cases, beating and punching them while they were handcuffed.

For the first time in more than a decade, New Jersey's summer season was free of serious injuries on roller coasters, Ferris wheels and log flumes, state officials said this week.

Surfcasters who fished in between the inclement weather this week saw pretty good results from stripers and bluefish along the coast.

Saturday's blustery, rainy weather might not have been ideal for beach going, but that didn't stop 17-year-old Julie Peterson and her friends from hitting the sand at Second Avenue in Seaside Park.

THE STAKES: Two three-year terms will be available on the Borough Council. THE CANDIDATES: Robert P. Brennan of 39 C St., an independent, is the incumbent.

As a taxpayer to the Toms River Board of Education, I am concerned about the arrangement made by Superintendent Michael J. Ritacco to allow Seaside Park students to attend our school district without compensation.

In a large green plastic tub, a male and female diamondback terrapin turtle appeared to be waiting patiently for a hand to reach in and grab them.

The borough will be able to pay its $708,408 third-quarter 2008 tax bill to the Central Regional School District, but it will not have enough money to pay this year's third-quarter tax bill of $750,743 because of 'cash-flow problems.' 'A purchase order was sent over to their business administrator for the 2008 payment due them, and we expect to be ...

James J. Fulcomer has been elected president of the Regular Republican Club of Berkeley.

BERKELEY - In June, Julia Madsen celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary and her 72nd birthday.

By Bonnie Delaney * and HARTRIONO B. * SASTROWARDOYO * TOMS RIVER BUREAU * September 22, 2009 SEASIDE HEIGHTS - MORE INSIDE: Berkeley takes legal action to halt Seaside Park seventh-graders' transfer to Toms River Intermediate East.

The Township Council will meet tonight to authorize special counsel Francis Campbell to institute legal proceedings to stop what the township is calling a "siphon-scheme" to decrease school tax funds payable by Seaside Park to the Central Regional School District.

Various Jersey shore communities now have the task of cleaning up from last week's coastal storm.

Even the seagulls looked confused yesterday. Along the Shore it was sunny in Sandy Hook; cloudy and breezy in Brick; and rainy -- at least in the morning -- in Margate.

Area health departments last week rated 11 food establishments as conditionally satisfactory for health code violations and restored one other to a satisfactory rating after reinspection.

Our photographers were out and about this Labor Day Weekend, snapping photos in Seaside Park, Seaside Heights, Point Pleasant, Long Branch, LBI, and Belmar.

Neither blustery northeast winds, cool temperatures nor white-capped waves could deter droves of people from performing their annual summer-ending ritual of making that one last trip to the beach or the park on Sunday.

With summer in its final throes, Saturday's pleasant weather allowed residents and visitors to start bidding adieu to the Shore's signature season.

Danielle Werking, who graduated Seaside Park Elementary School in June, won't be continuing her education this school year at Central Regional Middle School, as a few of her classmates will.