Beach Haven News

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.

Two syringes were found on Long Beach Island's shores, according to a press release from the Long Beach Island Health Department.

The Coast Guard rescued a 65-year-old man from the water after the 40-foot boat he was aboard sank near Little Egg Inlet, N.J., Monday.

Jordan Jade Arnold and Collin Ray Cornelius were united in marriage July 15, by Rev.

Perhaps it was the luck of the Irish that kept the rain mostly in the clouds. The Ancient Order of Hibernians' Ship Bottom Irish Festival went on Saturday despite threatening skies.

Learned something new while updating this guide this week; after Labor Day, Jersey beaches cease to exist.

Despite an expected decrease in the number of people going away for the final unofficial weekend of summer, motorists still can expect plenty of company on the roadways.

Woodcarvers and collectors will flock to the Museum of New Jersey Maritime History on Sunday for the 2009 Long Beach Island Woodcarvers show.

Long Beach Idol Winner Terri Hammer of Denville sings the Gin Blossomsa a oeHey Jealousy.a After six weeks of preliminaries and two weeks of semi-finals, five finalists were chosen, and last Wednesday, Aug.