• Writer offers information about carbon fees

    While increasing numbers from both political parties are endorsing a carbon fee as an essential way to begin mitigating the extreme effects of climate change, an advertising campaign has been launched that uses lies and distortions to oppose carbon fees. This ad campaign is sponsored by the American Energy Alliance, which is funded by energy…

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    The restored boardwalk in Ocean Grove. STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR

  • Still trying to go home, one year after Sandy

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer Union Beach resident Bart Sutton has been living with his family in a Keyport apartment since Sandy’s massive flood surge ravaged his home a year ago. He wanted to make the necessary repairs to his house, elevate it to a new 14-foot flood elevation and move back in, but the…

  • Sandy bills keep piling up

    By KEITH HEUMILLER Staff Writer A rguably the most devastating storm to hit New Jersey’s shores, Sandy claimed more than three dozen lives and pushed hundreds of thousands from their homes across the state. Cleanup and repair expenses totaled more than $36 billion, according to Gov. Chris Christie, and the storm’s long-term effects on local…

  • Four seeking two seats on Plumsted committee

    ELECTION 2013 PLUMSTED — Four candidates are running for two three-year terms on the Township Committee on Election Day, Nov. 5. The candidates are Democrats Mitch Geier and Robert J. Bell Jr., and Republicans David Leutwyler and Herbert Marinari. Leutwyler and Marinari are current members of the governing body. Leutwyler is serving as Plumsted’s mayor…

  • Candidates Christie, Buono outline ideals

    ELECTION 2013 By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer This text will be replaced The Nov. 5 election is quickly approaching, and Gov. Chris Christie and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono are campaigning steadfastly, throwing jabs at one another whenever they can as they travel around the state. Twenty-four days before the election, Christie, after traveling to…

  • Exhibit takes viewers into ‘The Mind’s Eye’

    By AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Above: Nadine Heller, gallery director for “The Mind’s Eye” exhibit, examines one of the photographic works. Right: The process that is used to shoot the photographs in the exhibit involves darkness, an open camera lens and a slow shutter speed. I n “The Minds’ Eye” exhibit by the artists of…

  • Howell officials expected to increase salary limits

    By GREG KENNELTY Staff Writer The Howell Township Council was expected to vote this week on two ordinances that establish new salary guidelines for a variety of municipal positions. The ordinances were introduced on Oct. 8 and were scheduled for a public hearing and possible vote for adoption on Oct. 22. One ordinance, if adopted,…

  • Area man recalls saving co-workers from Sandy

    By JACK MURTHA Staff Writer A few pieces of the boardwalk, above, are scattered on the beach in Ocean Grove the day after superstorm Sandy ravaged the coastline. At left, a bicyclist enjoys the rebuilt boardwalk this year. Ryan Fletcher does not go a day without remembering how close he and his co-workers came to…

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