A 22-year-old man from Yonkers visiting Ocean County drowned Saturday afternoon during a swim with friends, according to the office of County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato.
A group of Bay Head residents chipped in to pay for a protective storm wall currently being built along the northern end, but could be forced into giving up some of their property anyway for a federal beach replenishment project planned for the entire Jersey coast.
Bay Head is hoping the New Jersey Department of Transportation follows through with a promise to be out of the borough with a fully-paved Route 35 by May 22.
A judge has sentenced former Bay Head Police Chief Charles Grace to three years in prison for stealing thousands of dollars from the town and the police union.
A military explosives team has detonated a suspected mine that a diver discovered partially buried in the sand in the ocean off Bay Head but several problems remain.
The main north-south route that connects Ocean County's Northern Barrier Island communities is re-opening through the Sandy-ravaged borough of Mantoloking today. But stiff restrictions will be in place.
BAY HEAD, N.J. — The pilot of a small plane that crashed on a southern New Jersey beach over the weekend had rented the plane to do some aerial photography.