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Monthly Archives: November 2014

Last Week

Belmar’s Insatiable Appetite

For new restaurants. Is it a bubble? From Thursday’s Coast Star (Italics added) : New restaurants get Belmar’s OK Two, possibly three, at site of new brewery . Once home to the historic Freedman’s Bakery, the new commercial complex on Main Street where East Coast Brewing Co. is constructing a brewery will see two, possibly […]

Pulido: Kaye Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Also at Tuesday night’s meeting Brendan Read one of his prepared statements, this time attacking Jim Bean for “suppressing” the vote of former Belmar resident Sam Kaye.  Kaye moved to Ocean Township in 2012.  Bean challenged Kaye’s vote on those grounds, asking the Board of Elections to verify whether he was eligible to vote in […]

More “Negativity” Tuesday Night

Well, it started off nice. Tuesday’s meeting began with five young ladies from Belmar Elementary School performing a mock Borough Council meeting.  I thoroughly enjoyed it and by the end of it I was wishing that they were our real Council.  My favorite part was when one girl expressed her opposition to using solar power […]

Council Meeting Of November 18, 2014

Common Sense Was Right

The original readers of this blog (all five of them) will remember that my original targets were the proponents of the forced consolidation of New Jersey’s small towns.  For the first few months at least half of my writing was on this topic.  Despite the rhetoric coming from liberal Democrats like Chris Christie and Steve […]

The Anti Common Sense Blog

A new blog about Belmar just began publishing.  It doesn’t seem like it would be much fun to read, but anyway it’s there so I thought I would let you know about it. It is run by an anonymous administrator and doesn’t appear to allow comments. Its first post brags that Doherty got more votes for […]

Last Week

“This Vote Will Be Legal”

Public hearing on 2014-18, November 5, 2014: Schneck:  Um, two members of the Council constitute a um, a quorum? Magovern:  Well we had three, that’s a quorum, uh the Mayor had to recuse himself, so we have a vote of two, um Washburne:  The answer is yes, the vote can go forward. Magovern:  I think […]

O’Scanlon Moves To End Vote-By-Mail Abuse!

Sorry about the crappy photocopy.  It’s easier to read if you click on it.