RSS Feed
Author Archive
Work begins on wall for 2 Sandy-devastated towns
Posted by Associated Press: Wayne Parry on July 12th, 2014
Associated Press: Two wealthy New Jersey shore towns that were among the hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy nearly two years ago began building a 4-mile-long steel wall Thursday, an expensive effort that the state says is needed to protect the communities but that some residents and environmentalists oppose.
State and local officials watched Thursday morning as the work began where the Atlantic Ocean tore through the sand and cut a channel into Barnegat Bay on the other side of the barrier island the communities share,...
Posted in 
6 months after Sandy, thousands homeless in NY, NJ
Posted by Associated Press: Wayne Parry on April 28th, 2013
Associated Press: The 9-year-old girl who got New Jersey's tough-guy governor to shed a tear as he comforted her after her home was destroyed is bummed because she now lives far from her best friend and has nowhere to hang her One Direction posters.
A New Jersey woman whose home was overtaken by mold still cries when she drives through the area. A New York City man whose home burned can't wait to build a new one.
Six months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey shore and New York City and pounded coastal...
NJ hearing starts on nuke plant shutdown deal
Posted by Associated Press: Wayne Parry on July 7th, 2011
Associated Press: It's the oldest nuclear power plant in America, and it recently leaked radioactive water into the ground that threatened drinking water in its southern New Jersey neighborhood.
But people living near the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station packed a public hearing on its future Thursday, dismissing environmental concerns as "pseudoscience" and focusing on the jobs and tax revenues the plant provides.
The hearing was called to discuss a key element of the deal reached last December to shut...