Common Sense For New Hampshire

Belmar Council meeting of July 21, 2010 From the minutes Council member Doherty (who was running for mayor at the time) suggested giving free seasonal beach badges to the volunteer Fire Department and First Aid members. He stated Manasquan currently has an ordinance for it. Council member Wright asked if there were any legal concerns. […]

In case you didn’t see it, Sunday’s Press featured a pair of dueling Dohertys.  We had Republican state Senator Michael Doherty hawking his proposal to dedicate a certain portion of locally collected state sales tax to pay for the beaches and our own Mayor Matt Doherty bashing the idea. Lets have a look at the […]

From Doherty’s op-ed piece in today’s Press: “Eliminating beach fees sounds very attractive, and is politically popular, but upon examination, it proves to be unattainable. It dies, along with other politically popular ideas, because it runs into the adage that “nothing in life is free.” Someone always pays.” From a recent post on Belmar’s Facebook […]

Belmar resident Vincent T. Ehmann Jr., an unaffiliated voter, filed an ethics complaint Tuesday with the NJ State Ethics Commission in Trenton against James (Jamie) Fox, a NJ lobbyist and campaign contributor to Matthew Doherty’s Assembly and mayoral campaigns. Ehmann alleges that Fox, a voting member of the Local Finance Board, failed to recuse himself on […]

In today’s editorial “Extend beach, boardwalk smoking ban to all towns” : Visitors to Belmar this summer will be able to enjoy the sun, sand and surf without choking on tobacco smoke. The Borough Council voted last week to snuff out smoking on the town’s entire beach and boardwalk. The new ordinance, complete with $25 […]