Beach Haven News

A nor'easter last month eroded the dunes and sand protecting oceanfront homes, according to the report.

Residents of the storm-ravaged beachfront near Merivale Avenue will begin to see some action as the borough voted to move ahead with a GeoTube dune preservation project during their Monday meeting.

The Pizza Patrol leaves no slice unbitten. Trip No. 37 Our first all-day Shore trip was a doughy disappointment; our second was generally more of the same for the Pizza Patrol .

C. Louise Tomasso, 87, of Deerfield Township passed away Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, at South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center in Vineland.

What do you do with a nearly 5,000-pound anchor that was part of a historic wreck off the New Jersey coast for more than four decades ago? You donate it to the Museum of New Jersey Maritime History, if you are Maureen and Stephen Langeuin of Dive Voyager Expeditions.

Are you ready for John Davidson - that eternally youthful host from countless hours of classic television - as Ebenezer Scrooge? Well, John Davidson certainly is.

A fisherman who called his mother to report his 16-foot boat was sinking died a short time later after he was found unconscious in the Barnegat Bay.

An unresponsive 55-year-old man was rescued by a good Samaritan after his 18-foot boat sank off the coast here today.

Jersey Shore towns where beachfront-property owners deny public access to bathers may have difficulty obtaining federal funds to repair damage caused by a severe nor'easter this month.

A memorial flower garden is to be created in memory of Joseph Veitch, who drove the Beach Haven School bus for about 18 years.

It will be a few days before emergency workers along the New Jersey and Delaware shores are finished tallying the damage left by the last Nor'easter. In Ocean City broken decks show just how powerful the waves were as they crashed ashore.

Geraldine Vandegrift Hulick, of Beach Haven, N.J., daughter of Kenneth "Red" Vandegrift, runs her hand along a sign later attached to the "black bridge" in Phillipsburg.

Emergency management officials fanned out along the southern New Jersey coast on Tuesday, cataloguing damage to dunes, beaches and property from last week's nor'easter ... even as local towns tallied tens of millions of dollars of their own damage claims.

Last week's nor'easter caused "spotty" shoreline damage, with some beaches getting whacked and others holding up well, a coastal expert said today.

Edward Emerson Jr., 82, passed from this life on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. He was born in New York City on Jan.

The Ocean County Historical Society is sponsoring a "holiday magic bus trip," including lunch and a theatrical production of "A Musical Christmas Carol" at Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven on Dec.

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.