Monday, April 29, 2013
Many storm victims have become Sandy zombies
They are easy to spot. They don't smile much. They look tired. They are tired. They are numb. They are the Sandy zombies. They are fried emotionally and physically from half a year of battling to go home, if they still have a home to go to. I am a Sandy zombie. Is it possible it's been half a year since that horrific day and night when Superstorm Sandy blasted the Jersey Shore and changed some lives forever? Six months since we left our Bayville home with three terrified cats and made our way to family in Toms River? Six months since we've been living in a basement? We knew Sandy was going to be bad, even when we evacuated at noon on Oct. 29. Trees were already toppling in Pine Beach, taking down power lines. But we didn't know then we …
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Berkeley Township schools notified, extra officers stationed in area around dismissal time
Berkeley police are interviewing residents who reported seeing a white male driving an SUV fire shots into the Barnegat Bay near Good Luck Point this afternoon, Detective Sgt. James J. Smith said. "We believe it to be an isolated incident," he said. "We are interviewing other people who confirmed they heard gunshots." Berkeley Township school district officials were notified of the incident as a precaution, since it occurred at 3:15 p.m., around dismissal time, Smith said. "We positioned extra officers in the area to insure the safety of the children," he said. The incident occurred near Dorrance Drive and Bayview Avenue, in the Bayville section of the township. The driver was seen heading down Bayview Avenue into neighboring Ocean Gate, …
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Robert N. Kovacs Jr. already lodged in Ocean County Jail in Toms River on other burglary charges
Police have charged a 22-year-old man whose last known address was in Holiday City with the burglary and theft of unoccupied homes in battered Good Luck Point and Glen Cove, Detective Sgt. James J. Smith said. Berkeley Township Detectives Joseph Robertazzi and Joseph Santoro on March 28 charged Robert N. Kovacs Jr. with the crimes after he admitted to breaking into the homes in the Bayville section of the township to steal jewelry, money, copper and other household items.. "All of the homes were temporarily unoccupied as a result of damages incurred during Superstorm Sandy," Smith said. The break in the case came when Brick Township detectives alerted Berkeley police after they arrested Kovacs on March 26 on similar charges at a Sandy-…
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Little has changed in sections of Bayville hit hard by Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 29
It's been almost three months since Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coast, destroying and ravaging homes and unraveling lives. And three months later, a drive through the Good Luck Point and Glen Cove sections of Bayville is depressing and bleak. Good Luck Point was and remains a horror show since Sandy struck. Houses knocked off their foundations. Homes tilted even more than they were in October, as foundations crack in the frigid January air. Some rooms and houses have simply disapppeared. Good Luck Point was once a neighborhood. Not anymore. Almost everyone is gone, except for those few who live in homes built later and higher than the modest homes that went up in the 1950s and 1960s. "Done With It," one owner …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
'Only the crazy people stayed,' one resident says
There's a reason Berkeley Township police officers are still stationed at checkpoints into the Good Luck Point and Glen Cove sections of Bayville. Almost three weeks after Hurricane Sandy roared onto the Jersey coast, the two bayfront areas are still scenes of devastation. A blackened tree stands like a sentry next to a Good Luck Drive home that burned to the ground during the storm. Firefighters were unable to reach it. The power has been cut to most homes in Good Luck Point. Many are tagged with neon-red "unsafe structure" signs on their doors. Houses sit in places they don't belong, washed off their foundations. Overturned boats are everywhere. Some sit in the tidal marshes off Bayview Avenue, blown far from where they were once …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Thousands of bushels of clam shells transported for oyster habitat in waters off Bayville
A barge carrying tens of thousands of clam shells was located just south of Atlantic City last night, on its way to off Good Luck Point in Barnegat Bay. Its final destination will be a one-acre site in the central portion of the bay that scientists have identified as a historic site for oyster growth. The 8,000 bushels of clam shells – from more than 80,000 individual clams in all – will be used as an artificial reef on which oysters can grow, providing hope the area can be brought back to its once-productive glory. The project is being speaheaded by the American Littoral Society in partnership with the Barnegat Bay Shellfish Restoration Program and local group ReClam the Bay. "Most oysters grow attached to other shells," explained Bill …
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9:37 am on Saturday, May 4, 2013
Mitigation and 'Substantial damage' are two different animals in the aggregate sum. Thus, if you had $100,000 in damages, I would think that you would add elevation on top of that when applying for the CDBG. more ›