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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Point Beach Councilmen Sworn in and Boardwalk Plans Progress

Another stretch of boardwalk added to the post-Sandy rebuild project

  Two Point Beach council members were sworn in and council agreed to add another stretch of boardwalk to the upcoming renovation project. Andy Cortes, just elected to council for the first time, and Stephen Reid, who had originally been appointed to council in December, 2011 and then won election in November, 2012, were both sworn in as council members. Cortes, just after being sworn in, said, "I want to thank the Republican club and the voters who came out in adverse conditions to vote for Stephen and me. I also want to thank my family, all three rows of them, and my friends." Cortes' family filled the first three rows of one side of the meeting room. "I'm proud to represent the town on council," Cortes said. "I hope we can get away from…

valerie

7:23 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013

My friends and I always take a bus trip to point pleasant beach,NJ every year just to get away for a day and I always love to go just to enjoy the beach and the especially the boardwalk I was so devastated when I seen all the photos from sandy and what it had done to the shore I've been coming there for years now and I absolutely love it, it's the only yearly trip I get to make so I enjoy it very…   more ›

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Point Beach Organization Meeting on Jan. 5

Andy Cortes will be sworn in as new council member

  The Point Beach Council Organization meeting is scheduled for 1 p.m. Jan. 5. The Point Beach Council voted unanimously on Tuesday night for the scheduling of the organization meeting, as part of a vote for a "consent agenda" that contained numerous agenda items. However, at least a few council members were not delighted about the date. Council members Stephen Reid and William Mayer asked Mayor Vincent Barrella why the meeting was not Jan. 1, which has often been the date for the council's organization meeting every year. Mayer said, "I was disappointed my schedule wasn't consulted." Barrella said Council member Michael Corbally, who was absent Tuesday night, will not be back from a vacation by Jan. 1, so he postponed the meeting until …

Character101

2:35 pm on Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Until the Spring Lake wannabees or "think they are" residents of The Point get their heads out of the beach sand, it will continue. All of the elected choices are poor. When it comes to the town election it's like picking execution by firing squad or hanging. You are getting a choice but you're gonna die just the same. The first step is removing the bad seeds. The sooner the Hennessy's move the …   more ›

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