Spring Lake News

SPRING LAKE - Memorial Day weekend is now a week away, but that didn't stop sun and surf worshippers in Monmouth County from hitting the sand.

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.

On Saturday morning, May 25, 2013, the Jersey Shore town of Spring Lake , New Jersey , will be full of runners as they prepare to participate in the Annual Spring Lake 5 Mile Road Race .

She's performed various dance-offs for charity events, weddings, parties, local events, and even for some Irish bands, says her father, Michael Thompson.

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

More than 75 years ago, the federal government gave Spring Lake a boardwalk. It's quite an impressive structure.

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 city has unveiled a piece of a land near the corner of Springwood and Atkins that will be the west side's first community park, officials say.

Executive Director Eileen McDowell has been busy trying to arrange for another exciting month for the senior residents of Paramus.

Andrews Methodist Church, 4th and Mercer avenues, Spring Lake; $22, $20 students and seniors 65 and older; call 732-447-5169. Also at 8 p.m. May 11, 17 and 18, and at 2 p.m. May 12.

In the 17 years I have lived at the Shore, I've been to some shops in Spring Lake, but there were two in particular I had not yet visited.

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday: 1. THIS IS YOUR HOMETOWN Thursday's Hometown page, only in the Asbury Park Press, is all about Manasquan and neighboring communities of Brielle, Sea Girt and Spring Lake.

You'll find a story on a shopping adventure to a few shops on Third Avenue in Spring Lake, as well as a feature on Max Devros, a gourmet deli on Main Street in Manasquan that serves unforgettable sandwiches and more.

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

Four months to the date of the Newtown killings, the local Board of Education's vice president fired off an expletive-laced email that used the Sandy Hook school mass murder as a way to make his point.

Monmouth University's Woodrow Wilson Hall will be part of the Sixth annual Weekend In Old Monmouth Self-Guided Tour of county historic sites sponsored by the Monmouth County Historical Commission.

Sandy Sasso knows she wasn't the namesake for superstorm Sandy, but she's always wondered if maybe her name was the inspiration behind the song "4th of July, Asbury Park .'' The big-band singer graduated from Freehold Regional High School along with the song's author, Bruce Springsteen.

The Spring Lake, NJ, boardwalk, which was completely destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, is now up and running.

Bradley Beach's landmark wooden gazebo is pictured here in 2009. The borough has scrapped plans to replace it with a steel structure, instead choosing one more similar to the gazebo destroyed in Hurricane Sandy.

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