Harvey Cedars News

Regarding the Dec. 5 article "Homeowners get $480G for easement," I am amazed that these Harvey Cedars residents have scammed a half million dollars from the taxpayers for the privilege of letting the town help save their multimillion-dollar homes.

Court-appointed condemnation commissioners last week awarded Harvey Cedars residents Martin Flumenbaum and Ruth Hochberger nearly a half million dollars for an 8,500-square-foot easement needed for an ongoing beach replenishment project.

Authorities in New Jersey have busted what they call a major loan sharking and credit card scam.

A November aerial photo of Harvey Cedars on Long Beach Island. On Wednesday, the amount of the first compensation award to the owners of one home for lost views staggered Harvey Cedars: $480,000. The town had offered $300. And seven other homes are seeking similar payouts.

The Board of Commissioners is seeking suggestions for community improvement projects for which Community Development Block Grants may be available.

Officials for the Army Corps of Engineers said this afternoon that thay can press ahead with beach replenishment on storm-battered reaches of Long Beach Island - if Congress provides the money, and if island towns can obtain access easements from oceanside property owners.

Emergency management officials fanned out across the southern New Jersey coast Tuesday, cataloging damage to dunes, beaches and property from last week's nor'easter. Representatives from various government agencies are documenting damages and developing cost estimates for Gov.

Near the east end of Burlington Avenue a lone bulldozer grumbled and snorted, pushing dikes of sand up toward the exposed foundations of beachfront homes.

It was a desperate, ultimately futile battle - machine against nature - and Ocean City kept it up long after the outcome had been decided.

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.

The remnants of Tropical Storm Ida pounded the East Coast on Friday, flooding coastal areas of New Jersey and New York and eroding beaches in New Jersey after slamming the Carolinas and Virginia.

Remnants of Tropical Storm Ida pounded the East Coast on Friday, flooding coastal areas in New Jersey after slamming the Carolinas and Virginia.

Nearly a decade after a first attempt, residents on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to abandon the commission form of municipal government.

Jack-o'-lantern has been beaten to the punch by Jack Frost. With Halloween still two weeks away, the state's first Nor'easter of the season coated parts of Sussex and Morris counties with snow , while nearly two inches of rain was expected to be dumped on coastal New Jersey.

To help balance the budget in two consecutive years, Gov. Jon Corzine used a total of more than $15 million from the Shore Protection Fund, money the fund's supporters say is essential to attracting federal money for beach renourishment projects.

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.

Hearing about the 62-year-old woman who passed out, three-quarters up the stairs of the Barnegat Lighthouse the week before last, my first thought was, 'that poor old woman.' My second thought was "wait a minute - she's younger than I am - where did "old" come from? Not only is she younger, she had the chutzpah to tackle that really scary spiral ...

Vickie and Todd Swiontek of Lancaster County returned to Cape May Point yesterday to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary and found the scenes only September can bring.

This week's renewed erosion at the south end of Long Beach Island has residents looking again for government help to widen the beach, a year after a similar early-season gale chewed away at a stretch of beach with a historic tendency to dissolve into new inlets.