TREMONT — The start of 2024 saw the town of Tremont welcome its newest harbormaster, longtime local fisherman and sternman Tyler Damon, who commutes 55 minutes each day from Clifton.
Neither the theft of four casks of whale oil nor the bombardment by a patriot raiding party during the Revolutionary War were able to permanently darken the Sandy Hook Lighthouse, a stout, eight-sided structure that continues to warn vessels off the shoals of Raritan Bay.
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND — Roads were flooded or destroyed, waves broke apart docks, a small house in Bernard was swept off a wharf and into the ocean, seaweed needed to