Mantoloking News

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - Seven months after superstorm Sandy ripped up boardwalks and washed a roller coaster into the ocean, summer is getting its unofficial kickoff this weekend on the Jersey Shore.

Windows down, volume up. You're heading into Point Beach or Asbury or onto LBI. Traffic light turns red.

Children 11 and younger admitted free. The beach is accessible by 10 wooden walkways over the dunes.

Homes in Mantoloking, N.J., in March, five months after Superstorm Sandy. In some towns along the Jersey shore, homeowners have abandoned their damaged properties.

Summer is off to a strong start at Rehoboth Beach's Blue Moon, one of the Delaware shore's most renowned restaurants.

More than six months after post-tropical cyclone Sandy caused unprecedented damage to the Jersey Shore region, the beaches will be opening Memorial Day Weekend.

Kim Norrish, of Delran, N.J., holds one-year-old daughter Hunter Norrish as they look at prizes at a duck game opening day at The Keansburg Amusement Park in Keansburg, N.J. If folks on the Jersey Shore had but one message to convey to the world, it would be an emphatic "YES, WE ARE OPEN." Pummeled by superstorm Sandy in October, many towns along ... (more)

Mark O'Donnell usually books his family's summer vacation in January. For the last dozen years, that meant reserving an oceanfront house for a week in Long Beach Island, a quiet cluster of beach towns on the New Jersey shore.

MANTOLOKING - Still deeply scarred by superstorm Sandy, this barrier beach community could be the scene for the first post-storm litigation over beach replenishment easements.

Fears of a massive tax hike brought on by Superstorm Sandy might not come to pass in the hardest-hit Jersey shore town.

Fears of a massive tax hike brought on by Superstorm Sandy might not come to pass in the Jersey shore town hardest hit by the storm.

Major roadwork on the Route 35 reconstruction project in Ocean County will be put off until after Labor Day, but there will be plenty of contractor trucks along with the usual tourist traffic this summer near the Shore.

More than six months after Superstorm Sandy caused unprecedented damage to the Jersey Shore region, the beaches will be open for Memorial Day Weekend and the summer.

More than six months after Superstorm Sandy caused unprecedented damage to the Jersey Shore region, the beaches will be open for Memorial Day Weekend and the summer.

An eight-episode series of 'This Old House' focuses on several local homes rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy.

Summertime on the storm-weary Jersey Shore is almost here: The air is heating up, boardwalks are being rebuilt and throngs of vacationers are expected to pack areas that just months ago were obliterated by Hurricane Sandy.

Cranes and bulldozers have joined seagulls and surf as the new sounds of summer in the Jersey shore town that was the hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy.

Britain's Prince Harry did what most people would do on a sunny, spring day in Seaside Heights-take in the ocean views, then play some boardwalk games.

In this Tuesday, May 8, 2013 photo, the brown house on the left sits in Barnegat Bay in Mantoloking N.J. a day before work crews started tearing it down.

An eight-episode series of 'This Old House' focuses on several local homes rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy.