Shore Merchants Hope Labor Day Will Put One More 'Ka-Ching' in Their Coffers
Jersey shore shop owners think this holiday weekend will be a good one for business.
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Jersey shore shop owners think this holiday weekend will be a good one for business.
You've heard it time and again: "Now's the time to buy that vacation home!"
One of the Jersey shore's most family-friendly towns is throwing a special week of "weird" events, starting Monday.
Point Pleasant's Beach Council unanimously voted against a request to tape episodes of "Snooki & JWoww."
There's been a spike in the number of beach and ocean injuries this summer at the Jersey Shore.
Are you wondering why those ocean water temperatures are riding so high? It's not so much the sun as it is the wind affecting conditions at the Jersey shore.
When they tire of splashing in the waves, many children enjoy digging in the sand, but local shore town officials are always mindful of just how deep those craters on the beach get, because they know the dangers they pose.
Five people have drowned off of a Jersey beach this season, including 10-year-old Khitan Devine who was swimming in Atlantic City.
If you're headed to Ventnor or Margate for the holiday, you may be surprised by the picture on their beach tag. It's a drawing of a white-tailed deer.
Ocean surface temperatures along the South Jersey shore are already in the upper 70s.
New Jersey State police say troopers have located and recovered the bodies of two individuals Thursday along the Jersey Shore.
Kenny Chesney played a free concert on the beach for roughly 25,000 to 30,000 fans on Wednesday night.
Nine miles worth of oceanfront on Long Beach Island was shut down for a part of last weekend when medical waste started washing up on shore.
The concert is happening on the beach at Schellenger Avenue at 8:30 p.m. Gates open at 7 p.m., and the event is rain or shine.
Pointing out all the attractions of the Jersey Shore is an exercise in the obvious. A bustling vacation destination since the 1800s, the Jersey Shore attracts millions of families, couples and young singles annually for its spectacular 127 miles of Atlantic Ocean shoreline. It's Atlantic and Cape May counties that really draw in the locals though. Every summer, the Atlantic City Expressway and Garden State Parkway become bottlenecked with Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers heading toward beaches, bays, bars and boardwalks. From Sandy Hook to historic Cape May, "shoobies" go "down the shore" for sand, surf, sun and fun that only the Shore's hotels, casinos, souvenir shops, restaurants, amusement parks and wet entertainment can deliver.
Rip currents can be hard to see, says Sea Isle City Beach Patrol Lieutenant Dave Stearne. His best advice for staying safe in the ocean is to swim at a guarded beach. But, if you get caught in a rip current, he says try not to panic, though he admits that's tough.
Chesney was reportedly looking to perform on a boardwalk and had considered Seaside Heights, but he decided on Wildwood after visiting the beach there.
One South Jersey shore town has come up with a plan to help people evacuate -- with their pets -- in the event of an emergency.
Bob Schoelkopf, founding director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, NJ, says pods of bottlenose dolphins have been back in the area for weeks.
There are a couple of notable changes in Ocean City. First is the Route 52 Causeway into town. After six years and $400 million that's all finished, just opened this weekend.
Not for service between the two cities. No, Sea Isle will have about a dozen jitneys making runs on Landis Avenue from 1st to 93rd Street for a $2 fare.
As the Jersey Shore opens the tourist season, Atlantic City has to deal with the aftermath of this week's murders of a mother and daughter from Canada. And Governor Chris Christie is among those more than a little displeased with some of the media coverage.
So you're headed down the shore this weekend, family in tow. Hitting the boardwalk? Of course. But what is the one item kids (and some adults) just gotta take home this year?
The Wildwoods has won the "best beach in New Jersey" survey for the fourth time in five years. But the survey is being called "cockamamie" by Mark Soifer, public information officer for Ocean City.
It's been gridlock nearly every Friday afternoon in-bound to Philadelphia on the Ben Franklin Bridge this spring. You're stuck in traffic, and the other side's moving along just fine. And you wonder why your side doesn't have another lane? There are a lot of variables.
