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Monthly Archives: November 2015

Maritime Disaster

Chefs’ Marina Plans Wrecked? Fisherman’s Den on November 4. **** The big announcement from the Belmar Democrats this week is that Chefs International has finally started the $6 (?) marina restaurant project. . This is what the plan calls for them to build:It looks like it costs $6. . Aesthetics aside, there is an even […]

Tuesday’s Agenda

I Need Surgery….Does Belmar Too?

Next week they’ll opening up my neck all the way to the spine.  Then they’ll scrape out what’s left of two of my discs, grind open the spaces between the vertebrae where discs used to be, chip away bone from the inside of two or three of my vertebrae where bone spurs are poking into […]

Back To Earth

Occupy Belmar

Last November when the polls closed Mike Seebeck led his council race over Tom Brennan 956 to 840.  When the mail-in votes were counted Brennan ended up on top by 22 votes. This Tuesday when the polls closed the NO vote was ahead  752 to 691.  We ended up losing by 17 votes. And in […]

Belmar Results For All Races

Grosshandler worst……and first?   Yes, Janet Grosshandler’s numbers are somewhat interesting.  At the polls she came in last by a wide margin, trailing third place finisher Richard Brand by 114 votes and leader Joanne Gray by 209 votes.  The mail in was a completely different story though.  In that count Grosshandler came in first by […]

Absentee Ballot Percentages Countywide

Data obtained from the county website. This year Spring Lake had the highest percentage in the county.  (Last year it was Belmar.  I think the change to the messenger ballot law kept us from being number one again.) Let’s drill down a little into Spring Lake’s numbers and see if there is any significant difference between […]

Sorry Kids, I Know You Worked Hard On This

But it just wasn’t convenient At least the kids are learning how government works…in Belmar.

The Good News

Meeting Postponed? *Updated

Who knows?  I’ve heard it from a couple of people now but the Borough’s page still shows it as being tonight: It’s really arrogant of the mayor to treat the meetings like they are his personal property to have or to not have and to keep rescheduling based on his political convenience.  But maybe they […]