Thursday, May 23, 2013
Tourism commissioner says rental market is healthy.
Though immense devastation from Superstorm Sandy remains visible up and down the New Jersey coastline, beaches, boardwalks and even rental homes are ready for the annual influx of summer tourists that will begin this weekend, officials said Thursday at the annual "State of the Shore" event in Belmar. The State of the Shore report is presented by state officials and the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium every year before Memorial Day weekend kicks off, but this year it evolved to mark the unofficial reopening of the Shore area following Sandy. With emergency repairs to state and local infrastructure damaged by the storm now complete, work has started on the state's long term recovery, said Bob Martin, commissioner of the state Department of …
This will be Obama's first visit to Shore since just after Sandy.
President Obama and Gov. Christie will visit the Jersey Shore on Tuesday, according to The Record in Bergen County. This will be Obama's first visit to the area since Oct. 31, just after the storm struck. A full itinerary of the visit was not available. More information can be found here.
You can use this gas price widget to always find the lowest price of the moment. Pro tip: Gas up early this week to save money.
Click here for a full-screen view of the gas price map. If you don't see a map of our local area, click the magnifying glass in the upper right to enter your address. Nationwide, gas prices were predicted to be lower this summer compared to the last three years, but that won't translate into savings at the pump this Memorial Day weekend, experts said. "Motorists this year are facing rising gas prices heading into the Memorial Day holiday," said Michael Green, an AAA spokesman, adding that Memorial Day 2013 would probably be the most expensive since 2011. In past years, prices have declined heading into early summer as oil refineries produced more gasoline to meet expected summer driving demand. This year, though, Midwest refineries haven't…
The two men allegedly stole a utility vehicle from the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum late Wednesday and drove it on the train tracks abandoning it at the Short Hills train station, police say.
Two men were arrested late Wednesday for allegedly driving a utility vehicle on the train tracks in Short Hills, Millburn police said. The two men were identified as Gregory Morley, 24, of Matawan, and William Deppisch, 25, of Jersey City, according to NJ Transit spokesperson, Nancy Snyder. According to Capt. Michael Palardy, police repsonded to a report at about 11:30 p.m. of two men driving on the train tracks. Upon arrival, the officers found an abandoned John Deer Gator on the tracks at the Short Hills train station. According to the report, two men matching the same description, white shirts and blue jeans, were reported hitchhiking on Short Hills Avenue. Police found the men in Springfield near 300 Short Hills Avenue and were …
Fourteen-year-old Casey Schwartz tells Huffington Post about her generation's obsession with social media and their iPhones. Let us know in the comments what you think about this new technology geared generation!
Casey Schwartz, a 14-year-old in Millburn, is part the first-generation of people who no memory of life before the Internet. Schwartz regularly tracks the number of followers on her Instagram and Tumblr blog and how many friends she has on Facebook, according to Huffington Post. She even uses the app InstaFollow, which track who unfollows her on Instagram and immediately unfollows them. However, her biggest statistic stressor is how many 'likes' she gets when she changes her profile picture, the article says. She told Huffinton Post, if she doesn't get more than 100 she gets upset because it's a popularity contest. On an average day between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., Schwartz send exchanges more than 56 messages in a group chat on iMessage, not …
Group IV state champion Millburn High School enters the Tournament of Champions as top seed.
Millburn High School's boys varsity tennis team won its fifth straight group title Wednesday in the NJSIAA Groups competition, held at Mercer County Park in West Windsor — crowning the team Group IV champions. The Millburn team will defend its Tournament of Champions title next week as it competes with five other group champions as first seed. In the groups competition, the Millers drew a tough semifinal competitor in Livingston High School. Though Millburn had defeated Livingston in their previous meetings this season, a win was by no means assured. And indeed, the Millers' victory over the Lancers was about as thin as it gets: 3-2, with the clinching match a 7-6(7), 7-5 nailbiter on the second singles court, when Miller Dean Koman sent …
The upcoming schedule is unchanged.
The New Jersey Transit schedule that takes effect on June 2, here, has no news for South Essex County commuters. For most riders, that's good news. The South Orange schedule was changed last fall, before Superstorm Sandy. Riders charged that fewer seats and stops meant more crowded trains. In spring, the situation was changed. The March 24 changes saw four of the seven peak period trains with the same or less travel time than existed last April. The travel time for the remaining three trains will only be from one to three minutes more that existed in April of 2012. In March, Village President Alex Torpey said in a statement: "We've had a lot of people work with us - we couldn't have made it happen alone. From our state legislators, to …
You can use this gas price widget to always find the lowest price of the moment. Pro tip: Gas up early this Memorial Day weekend to save money.
Click here for a full-screen view of the gas price map. If you don't see a map of your area, click the magnifying glass in the upper right to enter your address. Nationwide, gas prices were predicted to be lower this summer compared to the last three years, but that won't translate into savings at the pump this Memorial Day weekend, experts said. "Motorists this year are facing rising gas prices heading into the Memorial Day holiday," said Michael Green, a AAA spokesman, adding that Memorial Day 2013 would probably be the most expensive since 2011. In past years, prices have declined heading into early summer as oil refineries produced more gasoline to meet expected summer driving demand. This year, though, Midwest refineries haven't been …
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The Millburn Township Committee says it opposes the blasting on Dorison Drive, but no laws are being broken.
Millburn and Short Hills residents continued to protest the use of explosives at the residential construction site on Dorison Drive in Short Hills at Tuesday's Township Committee meeting, Mayor Sandra Haimoff said Wednesday. The mayor said she and the Township Committee are actively trying to see if they can stop the construction plans proposed. Currently, the plans have not been approved and have been sent back to the contractor for questions. However, if the the plans meet state laws, the local fire inspector is required to approve builders' plans. If not, the inspector would lose his or her license. "State law governs blasting and municipalities have absolutely no to say in the matter, Haimoff said. She explained, a blasting license is…
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recallbethmason
8:23 pm on Thursday, May 23, 2013
sorry bob martin but i have no respect for anything you say or do as you were the idiot who approved the monarch project to built in Hoboken NJ. do you remember the project bob? two 12 story towers to be built on a platform over the hudson river...you know the area that is considered by FEMA to be to dangerous to build on because of superstorm sandy severely flooded the area! nice going schmuck… more ›