Belmar News

NEPTUNE - It was raining and slightly chilly Saturday afternoon, but beers from more than 30 craft breweries were flowing at the newly reopened Headliner .

The ticking of the clock has been drowned out by the hammering of nails and the pounding of pile drivers in many Jersey shore towns racing to finish boardwalk rebuilding projects before Memorial Day weekend and the hoped-for onslaught of summer tourists.

The two-hour live Town Hall event, Superstorm Sandy: A Live Town Hall, airs tonight on NJTV , New Jersey's public television network, THIRTEEN in New York City, WLIW21 in Long Island, and WHYY-TV in Philadelphia, and available online at SandyTownHall.org will feature experts fielding questions before live studio audiences at Monmouth University's ... (more)

Staff from the Monmouth County Health Department will direct the free session, organized by the Belmar Mayor's Wellness Campaign and the Belmar Woman's Club.

It's an enduring image of Hurricane Sandy's destruction of the Jersey Shore and its coastal communities.

Newly built boardwalks again welcome guests: After months of work, portions of the boardwalks in Seaside Heights and Point Pleasant Beach are open to the public.

A round-up of traffic projects in the area: Manasquan: The beachfront of Ocean Avenue east of First Avenue is closed for the beach headquarters reconstruction.

Richard Hoynes is a rocker at heart. This Belmar resident and former senior executive for companies that include Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson and Tyco is so devoted to Jersey bands that he spent the last ten years photographing them in every nook and cranny in New Jersey.

Repairs begin on the Belmar boardwalk that was destroyed during Hurricane Sandy last year.

It's an enduring image of Hurricane Sandy's destruction of the Jersey Shore and its coastal communities.

Last Thursday, the New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council set the black sea bass regulations in state waters for the 2013 season.

Mayor Matt Doherty violated state ethics laws when the borough signed a no-bid contract with a company with financial ties to his wife, Councilman James Bean alleges in a complaint he sent Friday to the state Department of Community Affairs.

Long Branch may not have bigger beaches for this summer, but they will certainly be much larger for the 2014 summer season.

For art's sake Red Bank Regional High School arts students are showing their photography work.

A man in his 70s approached Frank Sementa, principal owner of D'Jais Bar and Grill in Belmar.

The impact of Hurricane Sandy on municipal budgets has put many Jersey Shore towns into a holding pattern, waiting as the state approves their budgets.

Here's what they said. Ginny Kissling, 59, Jackson: "It's very open, lots of property.

The 27th New Jersey Seafood Festival, held annually in Belmar, is set for June 7, 8 and 9 at Silver Lake Park on Ocean Avenue.

It's been six months since a storm of historic proportions slammed into the Jersey Shore, wiping out entire stretches of the fabled boardwalk, sweeping amusement park rides out to sea and prompting Gov.

In just one month, the summer season starts at the Jersey Shore. Only this summer will be unlike any the Shore has ever seen.