Bay Head News

Sandy Essay Wins Balloon Ride: Bay Head School 6th grader Penny Demetriades wins a hot air balloon ride for her essay on how the American flag inspired her after Superstorm Sandy.

The student body at Bay Head School gathered to watch sixth-grader Penny Demetriades take two tethered hot air balloon rides on Monday morning.

Superstorm Sandy's level of devastation across the Jersey Shore became a wake-up call about beachfront protection to officials, so much so that towns are about to spend several million in taxpayer dollars to bolster their fragile shores.

Sandy recovery energizes Bay Head residents: The "Revitalize Bay Head" program was held at the borough's fire house Saturday to discuss the borough's devastation and recovery since superstorm Sandy.

Inside the borough's firehouse, the school nurse and two elementary students told dozens of residents how they made adjustments after superstorm Sandy in October.

Mantoloking chases flooding solution: Mantoloking may have found what it needs to help minimize flooding in the borough that Sandy made vulnerable.

Sandy's level of devastation across the Jersey Shore became a wake-up call about beachfront protection to officials here -- so much so that towns are about to spend several million in taxpayers dollars to bolster their fragile shores.

The Point Pleasant Boro Rotary Club is sponsoring its Kevin A. Brue Melanoma Awareness Father's Day 5K and One-mile Fun Run on Saturday at Community Park.

The heavy flooding that came to Daniel Paulus's doorstep Saturday re-surfaced an old frustration that he hopes the borough can settle soon.

Bay Head streets were flooded through Saturday evening, well after Tropical Storm Andrea left the region, as is evident here looking west on Osborne Avenue from the intersection with Lake Avenue.

Tony Parker's shot to clinch Game 1 wasn't pretty, but it quickly took its place among some of the... A flash flood watch is in effect for the state through late Friday night, and reports of flooding came from as far north as Aberdeen to as far south as Long Beach Island.

The Bay Head Reading Center officially reopened its doors Saturday morning after being closed for more than seven months due to last fall's Superstorm Sandy.

Carlos and Maria Santos of Point Pleasant are raising their lagoon-front home on helical pilings.

The Christie Administration will hold Mobile Cabinet hours at the Bay Head Fire House, 81 Bridge Ave., Bay Head, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday.

State Sues Freehold Company In Gas Station Jet Fuel Flap Freehold - A Freehold company is being sued by the state for knowingly selling jet fuel at its six gas stations during a three-day period, authorities said Tuesday.

No large-scale debris was found by divers who explored Manasquan Inlet to Bay Head recently.

The private entities that own the most popular beaches in Point Pleasant Beach are assuring the public that the beaches and the ocean are safe and clean.

It felt like summer inside New York City's Penn Station Thursday and the heat outside had little to do with it.

President Obama took a trip to the Jersey Shore , where he visited with local families and business owners who are preparing for the 2013 summer season.

There was not much debris in the ocean in Point Beach and Bay Head when volunteer divers explored the depths on Sunday.