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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Reminder

Joe Hillman estate sale starts today @9:00 AM. Runs through Sunday. 517 5th Ave., corner E Street.  

Don’t Forget This $4.5 Mil We Still Owe

Haven’t heard yet if we need to pay it back.  It would be useful to know before we go in hock for another 4.  BTW, note that Belmar is right near the top of the list.   Borrowers ranked by amount drawn:

Lunchtime Rumbling

Clair Deicke makes a few points in today’s letter to the Asbury Park Press, one valid, the rest mostly wrong. It’s true that the Avon Pavilion is a very different building than the planned Taylor Pavilion so cost comparisons aren’t totally valid.  But it also seems that by having their public works department do much […]

Manasquan Using Easy To Understand Budget Format

Submitted by a reader: On ours the pages aren’t even right side up, remember this guy?

Supremes OK Pringle-Era Furloughs

From Politico: Click on the image to see the story

Breaking News! (Well, Not Exactly)

Equestrian hit by train at 12th Ave!     Also…what Belmar had! And wow, a lot of businesses!

A Nice Place To Visit….But?

The Belmar Business Partnership has created an ad that is circulating on Facebook and is aimed at bringing more crowds to Belmar: I contend that the more successful that campaigns like this are, the more misery is visited upon the people who actually live here. More tourists help the tourist industry but do nothing for […]

Last Week

Dude, Where’s My Platform?

  During my morning Belmar browse I happened across the upcoming events page of Jim Keady’s campaign web site.     I looked around the site and it struck me how there’s so much information on how to help Jim:  “Donate”, “spread the word”, “volunteer”, “register to vote”, “get involved”.  But I don’t see anything […]

Sitting On The Dock Of The “A”

Watching our money being wasted away   My yachting days are long in the past but for years I used to enjoy zipping around in an old 23-foot Glastron bowrider.  Then I starting getting seasick, even on large craft.  And my Glastron, like all older boats, always needed a lot of work.  So that was […]