Lavallette Takes Action After Water Tower Found to be Rusting

A short while into what was expected to be a long life, the major repainting of the Lavallette water tower completed...

Rip Current, High Surf Advisory in Effect As Officials Worry About Beachgoers

The temperature is forecast to rise to more seasonably warm levels this week, just shy of 80 degrees, but the sunshine...

Lavallette Officials Recount Rescue Effort in Deadly Rip Currents

The man who lost his life in rough surf in Lavallette on Monday has been identified as a 60-year-old Westfield man,...

Man Drowns in Lavallette, Ocean Rescues in Seaside Heights and Seaside Park Occurred All Day

Rough surf kept swimmers out of the water in the few towns where lifeguards remained on duty, but in others, Monday...

Lavallette Officials Say Presence of Emergency Crew Does NOT Mean Beaches Are Guarded

The presence of an emergency crew of lifeguards on duty in September to respond to calls should not be construed as...

Increased Daily, Weekly Badge Sales Propel Lavallette to Record-Setting $1.2M Summer

A marked increase in the number of daily and weekly beach badges sold during the 2020 summer season was one of...

Lavallette to Keep Emergency Standby Lifeguard Crew After Labor Day

Lavallette, like most Jersey Shore towns this September, is predicting a busier-than-usual shoulder season as many part-time residents are expected to...

Ocean County Schools to be Grouped With Monmouth, Middlesex, Union in Safety Color Code Program

Schools reopening throughout New Jersey will be assigned a color-coded risk level once students return, with the state announcing that the...

NJEA to Murphy: All New Jersey Schools Should Open Remotely

The New Jersey Education Association, the union representing the vast majority of the state’s teachers and much of its school staff,...

‘Catastrophic’ Failure on Submarine Electric Lines to Island Bring Down Local Utilities

Residents island-wide were in the dark following Tropical Storm Isaias Tuesday, even though the island largely came through the storm otherwise...