Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Ceremony and parade held at Manasquan Inlet; many onlookers from Point Beach
The borough of Manasquan celebrated its 125th anniversary on Tuesday night with a lighted boat parade through the Manasquan Inlet. Over 20 boats outfitted in patriotic lights and decorations made their way through the inlet as hundreds of residents watched from Manasquan and Point Pleasant Beach. Mayor George Dempsey and other local officials were on hand for the celebration and there was plenty of food, balloon animals and other festivities for everyone in attendance.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
We're creating a map and photo gallery of the worst intersections in Point Boro and Point Beach
In the 1960s, many of these roads were still paved with dirt. Now Route 88, Bridge Avenue and Beaver Dam Road are the busy thoroughfares of a community that's bustling with summer traffic, commuter cars and - soon enough - school buses. Point Pleasant Boro and Point Pleasant Beach have developed into community hubs that cater to a busy tourism industry, as well as a densely populated bedroom community whose residents commute to jobs in New York City, Trenton and elsewhere. The people who have known these communities for more than half a century now find themselves locked in traffic that, at times, clogs blocks of Route 88 and Beaver Dam Road on a busy summer or school day. So we're asking residents to help us place more pins in the map …
How has the 2011 storm impacted you?
- POLICE & FIRE
- Tom Davis
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Sunday marks the first anniversary of the storm that pulled trees from their roots, flooded cars, decimated homes and businesses and left thousands without power. After Irene blew through Point Beach and Point Boro in August 2011, Point Pleasant Patch was there to cover the hurricane that had been downgraded to a tropical storm. One year later, we're asking you: Does the storm continue to impact you? What changes did you make in and around your home? Did your business, or neighboring businesses survive the wind and flood damage? Add photos of your neighborhood from the storm, and photos today so we can see how far we have come since the worst storm since 1985 hit the Jersey Shore. Leave your comment below, and share your stories about how …
Sunday, August 19, 2012
SEND US YOUR PHOTOS: Let us know if you're seeing what has become the weekly exodus to and from the beach.
Just as it's like every summer weekend, the traffic at Exit 98 is typically bumper-to-bumper and moving at a crawl between the Garden State Parkway and Point Pleasant Beach. What are you seeing? Send us your photos and let us know in the comments.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
What keeps pulling me back to Point Beach year, after year, after year....
The sloping, swirling roller coaster sure looks the same, the same one I once had to push uphill - knowing that one little slip, and I was roadkill - to get it where it is now, on the Point Pleasant Beach Boardwalk. We got in the back of the truck trailer that carried it, flattened our hands, pinned our arms against it and moved the strapped-down machinery slowly, inch-by-inch, up a rocky driveway that seemed steeper than a hill in Appalachia. With every slow, careful shove forward, the big two-ton hulking mass would roll one quick and perilous step back toward us, ready to roll us onto Ocean Avenue. The thing got so close to us that the wheels nearly clipped our toes. Or so it felt. I could sense the weight of the rubber trailer wheels …
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Point Pleasant man's name is being withheld for now
- POLICE & FIRE
- Daniel Nee
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
A 48-year-old Point Pleasant man was killed in Brick Wednesday morning after his bicycle collided with a tractor-trailer on Route 88, police said. The crash occurred at 8:58 a.m. near the intersection of Route 88 and Coolidge Drive, across from Midstreams Road, leaving the state highway and some adjacent streets closed for about four hours. The victim's name was not released pending notification of next-of-kin, police said. Sgt. David Bedrosian said the tractor-trailer had been stopped for the red traffic light on Route 88 westbound at the intersection with Coolidge Drive. The bicyclist, he said, was also traveling westbound on the right edge of the roadway. As the traffic light turned green for westbound traffic, the tractor-trailer began…
Intersection just cited by readers as one of area's worst road crossings
An accident involving an overturned car has occurred at Richmond and Washington avenues in Point Beach, police said. Police have responded to the scene. No word on injuries.
High bacteria was cited in the beach closings
Two beaches along the Manasquan River have been reopened, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection and boro officials. The DEP says the following beaches were shut down because of high bacteria, but now have been reopened:
Monday, July 30, 2012
Also: District 4 parking fines not being collected yet
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Case will be re-opened only if there is new information
The Coast Guard has suspended a search for a man in the ocean in front of Altantic Avenue, Point Beach, and will re-open the case only if there is new information. By 10 p.m. Tuesday, the Coast Guard had left the scene. Prior to that, a Coast Guard helicopter hovered over Point Pleasant Beach Tuesday night as emergency personnel responded to a report about a possible missing man, police and fire officials said. By 10 p.m. no one had been found and most emergency responders had left the scene. A Coast Guard vessel and a few police boats had been searching since shortly after emergency responders were called to the scene at 7 p.m. A helicopter used search lights as a report came in about a missing man wearing orange shorts having entered the…
Opinionated
1:02 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
After looking at the map with all of those "pins" and reading all of these posts, it is obvious that the intersections are not so much the problem. It is the fact that there are so many people who simply can't drive. What do blame it on, DUI's, cell phones, texting, advanced age, the "red sticker" crowd, or just plain ignorance? We have some who think a stop sign is a suggestion or it is OK to … more ›