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Man pulled from Beach surf dies

POINT PLEASANT BEACH — Despite the valiant efforts of emergency responders and an unidentified Good Samaritan, a 50-year-old New York City man who was pulled unconscious from the ocean, here, last weekend died.

According to Point Pleasant Beach Police Detective Patrick Petruzziello, Robert Drake was playing in the water near the White Sands Ocean Front Resort and Spa with his 7-year-old daughter on Sunday afternoon while his wife, Roselyn ...

Ways to honor boro residents’ efforts mulled

POINT PLEASANT — A week after stating that the recently formed memorial dedication subcommittee was likely to recommend naming the recreation center, here, after a longtime educator and volunteer, Councilman William Dikun announced this week that move was reconsidered and another approach to honoring residents’ contributions to the community is now favored.

The subcommittee, which also includes council members Susan Rogers and Shaun O’Rourke, was formed by the governing ...

Fifth death on tracks in just four months

BRADLEY BEACH — A borough man was killed by a NJ Transit train traveling through the borough early Friday morning — the fifth person since April to die on the stretch of tracks that runs from Bradley Beach to Brielle.

Christopher Wallace, 37, was struck and killed at approximately 12:50 a.m. on Aug. 29, by a non-revenue train traveling on the North Jersey Coastline en route to Long Branch, ...

Former cop jumps to his death in Wall

WALL TOWNSHIP — Retired Belmar police captain Peter James Van Etten, 54, of Neptune, leapt to his death from the Route 138 overpass onto the Garden State Parkway at Exit 98 on Monday at approximately 5:15 p.m., according to New Jersey State Police Sgt. Stephen Jones.

Mr. Van Etten was struck by a Greyhound bus traveling northbound on the Garden State Parkway and pronounced dead at the scene, Sgt. ...