Garden Club Plants Seeds for Sea Bright Sandy Recovery

An update on the Fair Haven Garden Club's plant sale and dune planting project in Sea Bright

Bottlenose Dolphins Sighted Off Sea Bright's Shore

A small pod of Bottlenose Dolphins were sighted in the Atlantic Ocean a few hundred yards off the coast of Sea Bright.

Mourning Creatures' Loss to Sandy

An unrealized loss in a loss-prevention era. Do you know what these animals are?

The beaches are still pretty barren in Sea Bright. And, more than six months after Hurricane Sandy's wrath, as residences and businesses have been rebuilding and the beach has been slowly and nearly brushed back where it belongs, remnants of Sandy sporadically wash onto the shore. What people find when walking on scantily traversable sand is often a brazen reminder of a loss less often thought of — animals and sea creatures that couldn't survive the storm's toxic tide or what it left behind in its wake. On treks down the beach in Sea Bright since Sandy, a Patch friend and animal lover found a couple of remnants of that loss that made her and us saddened by the notion that nature can sometimes be very cruel in a survival-of-the-fittest …

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Elaine Van Develde

12:04 pm on Tuesday, May 7, 2013

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R-FH Area's Weekend Happenings

Fishing derby, Wounded Warrior benefit and Old Monmouth tours

If you're looking for something to do in the Rumson-Fair Haven area this weekend, there's a little bit of everything going on. • In the sporty/family category, if you're trying to hook onto something fun and traditional, bring your own pole and bait and cast your line at the Fair Haven Annual Fishing Derby at McCarter Pond on Saturday. The event, which makes kids in two groups, 8 and older and 7 and under, eligible for prizes and certificates, starts with a registration at 8:30 a.m. at the pond and runs from 9 to 10 a.m. • If you're feeling like a little passive recreation and enjoy the history of the area, join the Old Monmouth Tour and visit Rumson's historic Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club or First Presbyterian Church. The tours of…

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Sandy Impact Slowing Budget Process in Sea Bright, Along Jersey Shore

Some municipalities, such as Sea Bright, desperately need the additional funds from Community Disaster Loan applications.

The impact of Superstorm Sandy continues to be felt by the State of New Jersey as it embarks on its first fiscal year following one of the biggest storms in its history.    For various reasons, many towns have been forced into a holding pattern, waiting as the state approves their budgets. Indeed, 32 municipalities impacted by the storm have applied for community disaster loans, which are reviewed by officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and must ultimately be approved by the NJ Departmet of Community Affairs' Division of Local Government Services. Some towns, such as Sea Bright, see this loan as an absolute must. The borough applied for about $1.25 million in the loan, and has not even introduced its budget at this point…

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Photos of Sandy Aftermath Nominated for CNN Award

Public can vote for favorite CNN iReport nominee daily until Monday, May 6

A yellow house with nearly half the structure missing. A boardwalk and ride torn from the ground it sat on. These are some of the photos that have been nominated for a CNN iReport award. Two weeks following Hurricane Sandy, Clifford and Susan Rumpf of Little Falls ventured to the Jersey Shore to begin a lengthy process of documenting the devastation. After taking thousands of photos from Union Beach to Atlantic City, with Sandy Hook and Sea Bright in between, the couple has been nominated for a CNN iReport award in the category of Compelling Imagery. A CNN panel selected 36 citizen journalists out of almost 11,000 iReports published in 2012. There are six categories including breaking news, original reporting, compelling imagery, …

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Sandy: The Fall and Rise of Sea Bright

Six months after the storm devastated Sea Bright, some things have fallen for good and others built back up

It's been six months since the Shrewsbury River met the Atlantic Ocean and obliterated the small slice of the peninsula beach town of Sea Bright. The beach was in the street after the ocean had washed remnants of buildings, cars, personal belongings and even beach cabanas across the river and onto Rumson's shores and lawns. Sea Bright was shut down and nearly flattened. In the days that followed, Mayor Dina Long gathered residents at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School's Borden Stadium. It was there, on a now historic damp, dank day, that she gave what is now referred to as her "DO" speech. Long relived to bleachers full of weathered and weary Sandy victims how, feeling distraught and down, sitting in what was left of her office, she …

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