Lavallette News

One Jersey Shore street is about to switch towns. Bay Beach Way, a street in Toms River that dead-ends at Barnegat Bay, is close to becoming part of neighboring Lavallette.

Homeowners along a street in Toms River have won another round in their efforts to secede and join a neighboring town.

One week to the minute of Julia Madsen's disappearance in South Seaside Park, at 7 p.m. Thursday, her family gathered there with a clergyman to pray for her and listen to Bruce Springsteen's "Countin' on a Miracle." Madsen, 72, had been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease but her family said it was the beginning stages and that she was mostly lucid ...

Is it the weather or the economy keeping Jersey Shore rentals vacant? Both have been dreary, but only one has a shot of turning around within 24 hours.

Arleen J. Lippincott, 60, of Lavallette, will become interim superintendent of the Berkeley School District starting July 1. The Board of Education Friday night unanimously agreed to pay Lippincott, who has 26 years of experience in the district and is principal of the Bayville Elementary School, a stipend of $75 a day or no more than $1,500 per ...

Whenever summer descended on Ortley Beach, residents often took matters into their own hands when it came to tourists' parking habits.

PARK RIDGE Borough residents pay one of the lowest rates for electricity in the state, according to borough's electric utility authority, and they are about to go lower, a utility official said today.

People driving through town on Saturday may have been surprised to see the large group of pedestrians, many with four legs, parading down Bay Boulevard.

The key to catching big fluke, and limits, seems to be fishing rough bottoms in 60-foot depths both north and couth of Manasquan Inlet.

" Mayor Steve Lonegan, the conservative Republican candidate for Governor, received the endorsement from Lavallette Mayor Walter LaCicero, Jr.A At a press conference today, Mayor LaCicero said he was proud to endorse Mayor Steve Lonegan, adding that he is the only hope for New Jersey.A A A A A A "Steve Lonegan is the only true Conservative ...

Working for tips in New Jersey is a feast-or-famine proposition, depending on the state of the economy.

Chris Christie headed into the homestretch of the Republican gubernatorial primary with seven times more cash than his leading opponent, Steve Lonegan, according to campaign finance reports released Thursday.

Jersey Shore merchants may benefit this summer from a rising tide of upper-income visitors who'll join a steady stream of middle-income in-state residents who are still planning their beach getaways, albeit for a shorter period of time than last year, the latest Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll released Wednesday shows.

Memorial services throughout the Shore paid tribute Monday to the sacrifices made by soldiers in the name of their country.

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Bruce Springsteen had a question for the audience during his show at the sold out Izod Center in East Rutherford last night.

A group of public works employees and seasonal laborers today witnessed the last nails driven into a mile-and-a-half long boardwalk that took them about four years to complete.

Millions of dollars of stimulus funding - touted by the Obama administration as the nation's best hope for getting the country out of the recession - will soon be coming to the Jersey Shore.

MyFoxNY.com - On Tuesday's Good Day New York,A Ken Schlager, editor of the magazine New Jersey Monthly , shares information on the benefits beachgoers will find at the redeveloped Asbury Park.

The governing body, here, caved in to public pressure and terminated a contract that would have allowed ads to be posted at the borough's ocean and bay beaches on Wednesday.