Sandy

You can help Hometown Heroes help our neighbors recover from Sandy by attending a comedy show this Sunday at Hemingway's Café.

As part of New Jersey's Stronger Than The Storm Campaign, celebrity chef Bobby Flay is bringing his 'Throwdown' competition to the Jersey Shore.

The nation comes together tomorrow to help the Garden State. Tomorrow is National Dine Out Day and this year's event will benefit the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief fund. Great food all over the state from some of our area's best restaurants and proceeds go to help so many of our friends, family members and neighbors who are still battling the after-effects of Sandy...

For the past month, I have been able to tell about all the ways Lowe's has been there to help us rebuild after Sandy, and this past Saturday, I was able to visit the Lowe's on Hooper Ave. in Toms River to meet the great staff there.

The fate of that 11-mile dune project from the Manasquan Inlet down to the Barnegat Inlet rests in the hands of the property owners refusing to sign the easements.

Mantoloking was one of the hardest hit areas when Sandy slammed the Jersey Shore. Plans for restoration are in the works and nearly ready to begin, but five residents are holding up progress for the entire town.

We went through so much with Sandy, and before you knew it, hurricane season arrived again. We all tried to remind ourselves of what a rare storm it was, but does this week of weather have you a little extra worried?

The 11-mile-long oceanfront dune project remains up in the air, thanks to hundreds of holdouts, refusing to sign easements.

More than 7 months after Hurricane Sandy, it's easy to focus on the newly reopened boardwalks, but it's important to remember the people who are still trying to put their lives back together, especially the children. Several local charity groups have come together for one particular group of kids.

When Nicholas Pools "hired" me to help their awesome crew to do an amazing cleaning job to bring a customer's pool back to life after Sandy, one thing I knew for sure was that they didn't really need my help. I was glad to hang out with them while they worked hard, but when I left for a 3pm golf "appointment", I think they were relieved...

Normally by now, county and municipal budgets are set. But Superstorm Sandy knocked the pins out of that plan, as many sit, anxiously awaiting the much-needed federal relief money.

The academic year is nearing an end and many school districts in New Jersey are making the necessary final adjustments to their calendars to fulfill the state-required minimum of 180 days of instructional time, a task that has been made more complicated thanks to Superstorm Sandy.