Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Students will volunteer their time to clean up area
Shore Regional High School's latest community service project will be to help get Sea Bright ready for Memorial Day weekend. "Shore Regional has reached out to the town administration and worked out a plan of volunteer action," Shore Regional public relations staff member Joe DeLeonardo. "We will be sending volunteers from the senior class, faculty and staff on Monday, May 20 to Sea Bright for a full day of volunteer service." DeLeonardo said the volunteer work was initiated by Shore Regional students. Sea Bright is one of the school's four sending districts, along with West Long Branch, Oceanport and Monmouth Beach. "The educational value derived from this Senior Class community service will be to foster collaborative relationships …
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
A small pod of Bottlenose Dolphins were sighted in the Atlantic Ocean a few hundred yards off the coast of Sea Bright.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
With attention waning, the realization of the damage of Hurricane Sandy is just setting in for some.
The crash is steep. Ceiling to flooded basement. Hurricane Sandy tore through the Jersey Shore and elicited a response like no other. Local and national news outlets arrived in droves. Television cameras framed sad faces alongside piles of debris. Benefit concerts paired aging rock stars with a new cause. Volunteers arrived by the busload from throughout the country. Checks were written, memoed with words like "hope" and "optimism." It’s what they call the honeymoon phase of a disaster. Like the ocean water that shifted buildings from their foundations, this surge too would eventually have to recede. Now, the only thing left is reality. It’s stark. Daunting. The damage left behind is all that remains, and restoration — the hopeful promise …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Federal funding is coming to finish the job.
It's still a surreal sight. Heading to Sea Bright over the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge, a panorama of sand mountains accosts the horizon. It looks like a foreign apocalyptic Sahara of sorts. Knowing that the beach lies beyond them is a consolation of familiarity. But, even after Hurricane Sandy's clean-up pushed the sand back off the streets and piled it high and the borough underwent an $8.5 million beach replenishment project, a couple of storms and high tides later, it's all gone — an awful lot of it, anyway. It was the fourth Sea Bright replenishment in just over a decade, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which handles all beach replenishment projects from giant barges in the sea. More than a million cubic yards of sand …
Thursday, March 21, 2013
The town has vowed to fight back following Hurricane Sandy, but recovery could take years.
There's no question in Mayor Dina Long's mind. Sea Bright will come back. Its downtown businesses, many of them still shuttered, their signs hanging on buildings some of which will have to be torn down, will open again, someday, somewhere. The beach clubs, crushed by the surging flood waters during Hurricane Sandy, will welcome visitors back to their new cabanas and beaches eventually. In the meantime, residents should brace themselves. It's not going to be pretty. Long assured residents during a public post-Sandy information session Wednesday that the recovery effort would not wait. But it will take years, she said, for the town to recover a ratable base decimated by the late October storm. In the interim, Long asked for residents to be …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
State data also shows the average cost of damage was $21,976 in the 07760 zip code area that includes the municipality.
Superstorm Sandy inflicted damage on 1,028 homes and rental units in Sea Bright, according to an analysis of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs data by NJSpotlight.com. Some 574 Sea Bright homeowners reported minor damages from the historic storm, while 32 suffered "major" damage, defined as between $8,000 and $28,800 in storm costs. Damage under $8,000 was considered "minor." Severe damage — defined as over $28,800 in costs — was reported for 63 homes. At least 359 Sea Bright rental units sustained damage in the storm — 71 suffering minor damage, 139 incurring major damage and 149 with severe damage. The report shows 108 Sea Bright businesses indicated they were impacted by Sandy. The average Federal Emergency Management Agency …
Monday, March 11, 2013
Portion of the Sea Bright road from the foot of Rumson-Sea Bright to Highlands Bridge was cut off, due to washout and rock slides
The barriers at the foot of the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge that closed off northern Ocean Avenue, from the bridge to Sandy Hook, for a few days have been taken down and the street is reopened. The NJ Department of Transportation has been working on a temporary and permanent fix for the state highway, Route 36, since Monday morning. And Sea Bright Mayor Dina Long has announced on her Facebook page that the road would be reopened at some point Monday afternoon. It has been cut off since the nor'easter last week. Because of the storms, the rocks that comprise the sea wall along Ocean Avenue have become dislodged. The result: sliding rocks and ocean water and sand seeping through the resulting gaping cavities. The Gateway National Recreation …
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Sandy relief package passed by Congress in January would fund project
Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach are among the Monmouth County beach towns that could be part of an upcoming large-scale beach replenishment project, according to Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06). The Sandy relief package passed by Congress in January would fund the beach replenishment project and others Pallone said he expects to be completed to restore damage to the Jersey Shore caused by Superstorm Sandy. "Based on his interpretation of the Sandy aid bill, Pallone pointed to these projects in Monmouth County that he expects the Army Corps of Engineers to move forward with as part of the relief plan," a release from Pallone's office stated. "Pallone stressed that these projects only represent a preliminary list and that other projects…
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Facing harsh criticism by Democratic leadership, Long supports Christie's reelection bid.
Unity trumps politics in the face of adversity. That was the salient message imparted by the Democratic mayor of a town devastated by Hurricane Sandy as she endorsed Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s reelection bid. Christie — criticized by a contingent of Republicans for his support and recognition of Democratic President Obama in the face of Sandy — stood alongside Sea Bright Mayor Dina Long at Woody’s Ocean Grille on Thursday as the Democratic mayor voiced her support of the New Jersey governor. The governor reiterated "his politics be damned, this is about rebuilding in the wake of disaster" credo and praised Long for her post-Sandy leadership. Long clarified that her support of Christie did not have anything to do with state Sen. …
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Sea Bright bar has been shuttered since Sandy
A Somerville man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a substantial amount of alcohol from The Madd Hatter, a Sea Bright pub and pizzeria that has been shuttered since Hurricane Sandy. Seven M. Marchesani Jr., 30, of 84 3rd St., Somerville, was arrested in Sea Bright on Nov. 27 and charged with theft, according to the complaint warrant signed by Detective J. Arias. Marchesani allegedly committed the theft, according to the document, by taking bottles of alcohol valued at approximately $850 out of the establishment, which has been closed, along with all other businesses in Sea Bright, since Sandy. The complaint also said that there was a witness statement to corroborate the charge. Marchesani is scheduled for an initial appearance in …
Dentss Dunnagun
9:34 am on Thursday, March 28, 2013
this is why it's very important to take one day at a time ,by that you never look at the entire picture or it will become overwhelming .ask anyone that survived an illness you don't say I want it to be like it used to be ,you say tomorrow will be just a little bit better than today .... more ›