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$350M project to build new Rt. 72 causeways slated to begin in May – APP
Some much-needed good news is coming to Hurricane Sandy-stricken Long Beach Island. A second series of NJ 72 bridges connecting the mainland to LBI will be constructed while the existing causeway will be rebuilt. Walkways/bikeways will be included on both alignments.

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I have mentioned several times that I enjoy blimps and used to spend some time in Lakehurst, N.J. area. On this day, 75 years ago, the Hindenberg exploded and crashed there at what is now Lakehurst JFB. Hanger 1, which would have housed the Hindenberg during its stay, is still an active airship hanger.

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Navy airship to keep flying for at least one year – Asbury Park Press
I just found out that the U.S. Navy has had a blimp at what used to be called the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. It will be sticking around through 2012 too.
Emblazoned with its 1920s-style fin insignia and black letters reading “U.S. NAVY,” [...]

While the storm was neither a hurricane, nor a classic nor’easter, its impact was so powerful, the U.S. Weather Bureau gave it a name: “The Great Atlantic Storm.” That name was later changed by Outer Banks resident, Aycock Brown. Referencing the solemn holiday that shared the day the storm unleashed its fury he named it [...]

Visiting Old Barney on a cloudy day in September 2006
“Old Barney” to light the sky once again – Asbury Park PressFor the first time since 1927, Barnegat Lighthouse, located in Barnaget Light on Long Beach Island, is going be a working lighthouse again.
The new light will not be as powerful as the lens that was [...]

A Beach Where Discretion Is More Than Just Advised – The TimesYou know the put the towel around you and change out of the bathing suit trick? That is appparently not appreciated in Long Beach Township
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After storm, beaches are “not too bad” – APPThere is less beach and steeper drops along Long Beach Island, but at least the nor’easter did not come a week earlier:
If the storm had struck during a new moon high tide on May 5, it could have been roughly a once-in-25-years storm instead of the approximately [...]

Erica and I are taking a long weekend down the Shore, but don’t worry WWN Pentagon City bureau chief Fritz will keep the Nats coverage going in my absence.
If I were in town, I might go to the Arena Stage garage sale (Baseball on the barn too) and see if they were selling any [...]

Curl Power: Surfin’ the Garden State – The PostA Post reporter tries out surfing on Long Beach Island. I never thought of LBI as a big surfing destination, The Original Ron Jon1 notwithstanding, but the article suggests otherwise.
Two days to go…
1When I was a kid no one believed me that Ron Jon started in Jersey. [...]

Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster (On this Day, The Times) in Lakehurst, N.J. at the Naval Air Station there.
I spent a lot time in Lakehurst over the years. At one point both sets of grandparents lived in a retirement village on the outskirts. Airships are still part of the local [...]