Topic: The Ocean Star
Point Beach charters ready for busy summer season
POINT PLEASANT BEACH — As the Point Pleasant Beach charter boat industry continues to navigate its way through the COVID-19 pandemic, many charters are eager for a full summer season of fishing and fun...
Beach Sweeps draws community support
POINT PLEASANT — Community members of all ages strapped on their gloves, grabbed their buckets and headed to the local beachfront to help find, remove, and tabulate harmful debris as part of Clean Ocean...
Brick goes big at 2021 Beach Sweeps
BRICK TOWNSHIP — Hundreds of Brick residents cleaned up township beaches on Saturday, during environmental group Clean Ocean Action’s annual Spring Beach Sweeps event.
Clean Ocean Action counted 5,000 volunteers operating at over 60 New...
Lavallette, Verizon iron out 5G agreement
LAVALLETTE — The borough council updated its conditional approval of Verizon Wireless’s application to install five 5G facilities on existing utility poles Tuesday night, months after the council approved the contentious application in mid-January.
The...
Lavallette cops to wear body cameras
LAVALLETTE — The Lavallette Police Department will soon be outfitted with body cameras, due to state legislation that mandates their use by law enforcement.
The borough council approved the cameras’ purchase at its meeting on...
Fire erupts in Beacon Gardens Apartments Sunday damaging units
POINT PLEASANT BEACH — A fire destroyed at least one apartment in The Beacon Gardens Apartments Sunday as flames were seen barreling out of second-story windows in the early afternoon.
Ocean Fire Company and Point...
Annual Clean Ocean Action Spring Beach Sweep comes to Mantoloking
MANTOLOKING — The Borough of Mantoloking will participate in Clean Ocean Action's 2021 Spring Beach Sweep on Saturday, April 17 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The borough will join over 60 other locations up...
Point Beach schools see steep uptick in cases of COVID-19
POINT PLEASANT BEACH — Despite a steep uptick in positive COVID-19 cases within Point Pleasant Beach Schools over the past two weeks, the district still plans to return to five-day in-person instruction on April...
Whaler’s Point project application adjourned again
POINT PLEASANT — The applicant of a 24-unit, multi-family development on the site of an old motel on Route 88 has been granted another adjournment by the local zoning board of adjustment.
On April 14,...
Garden Club keeps active despite pandemic restrictions
POINT PLEASANT — The Point Pleasant Garden Club has continued to remain active amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, meeting virtually and replacing planters throughout the borough in a socially distanced manner.
“We have been trying...
