Luxury Jersey Shore hotel turns spa shop into toy boutique and dropoff for Toys for Tots
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
Lea Gorodesky, spa director at The Reeds at Shelter Haven in Stone Harbor looks at the toys in the pop-up toy boutique, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. The Reeds partnered with independent toy store Just Kidding Around in Montclair. Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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The boutique shop at The Reeds at Shelter Haven in Stone Harbor is normally filled with shampoos, soap, linens and clothing for its customers but this holiday season all that has been swapped out for stuffed animals, toys and tutus.
Snowstorm took bites out of Jersey Shore beaches, but the sands will likely be back, expert says
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
Erosion known as scarping at North Street beach on the northern end of Ocean City, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020.Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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On the north end of Ocean City, daylight Thursday revealed small cliffs in the sand that people typically call beach erosion.
It is, but the peninsula-like patterns carved out by waves fueled with energy from the overnight storm is called “scarping,” said Dr. Stewart Farrell, director of the Coastal Research Center at Stockton University.
You can pay to push the button to implode Trump Plaza in Atlantic City
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Workers continue demolition of Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020.Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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One of President Donald Trump’s former Atlantic City casinos will be blown up next month, and for the right amount of money, you could be the one to press the button that brings it down.
The demolition of the former Trump Plaza casino will become a fundraiser to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City that the mayor hopes will raise in excess of $1 million
National Signing Day: What will Rutgers’ highest-ranked recruit Alijah Clark add? ‘It’s like Revis Island,’ his coach says
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
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Four-star Camden (N.J.) defensive back Alijah Clark is Rutgers’ top-ranked recruit, but can he help Rutgers as early as next year? NJ Advance Media caught up with head coach Dwayne Savage to find out. And it sounds like his senior is up to the task.
“He made great strides this year. He just kept playing,” Savage said of the 6-2, 180-pound DB. “He played through everything. He’s gotten 100 percent better mentally. A lot of it is because of all the stuff he’s had to overcome in his life. He just keeps fighting.”
Christmas tree on Jersey Shore beach is a shiny beacon of hope for its visitors
Updated Dec 12, 2020;
Posted Dec 12, 2020
Sue McElwee helps her daughter Harlow, 3, with shells at the North Street beach Christmas tree in Ocean City, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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It turned out to be so much more.
They left the tree up thinking other beach-loving families would want to capture their own holiday memories. Soon Christmas ornaments and seashells with messages written on them covered the tree.
“It just became this huge thing down here,” said McElwee, a year-round Ocean City resident. It was so popular she said they had to do it again.