Belmar beach US Coast Guard March 3 2011
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Hurricane Earl strengthens, could swipe U.S. east
August 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Earl seen becoming major Category 3 hurricane
* Buffets northeast Caribbean with wind, rain, waves
* U.S. East Coast could feel effects later in week
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MIAMI, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Hurricane Earl battered the Northern Leeward Islands in the Caribbean on Monday and was poised to become a major Category 3 hurricane that could swipe the U.S. East Coast in the next few days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Earl had maximum winds of close to 110 mph (175 kph), just short of major hurricane status, and was moving on a track that would take it northwest, to pass east of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina in the next few days.
“It’s forecast to become a Category 3 later today,” hurricane center forecaster Jessica Schauer told Reuters.
Schauer said authorities along the U.S. eastern seaboard should closely monitor Earl’s progress.
“Right now it’s forecast to pass off the coast of Cape Hatteras, probably within about 300 miles but that forecast track can change,” she said, acknowledging that a direct hit to the North Carolina coast could not be ruled out.
Ken Pringle retires as Mayor of Belmar after 20 yrs
March 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Ken Pringle retires as Mayor of Belmar after 20 yrs.
In a letter mailed to residents yesterday Ken said He was not seeking reelection as Mayor of Belmar
Sad to see him go, lets hope the next mayor can continue to bring the town to its full potential as a year around seaside town.
BELMAR — After 20 years on the job, Mayor Kenneth Pringle has announced he will not seek re-election in November.
“This has not been an easy decision for me,” Pringle wrote in a letter Friday to constituents. “There is still so much I want to do.”
http://www.app.com/article/20100309/NEWS/3090373/Belmar-Mayor-Pringle-won-t-run-again-says-tourist-flap-isn-t-reason
Febuary Snow Storms in Belmar
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Jersey Shore’ Stars Want Big Bucks Season II
January 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
Snookie Wants 10k per episode or she is moving to Belmar for the summer
Jersey Shore’ stars want big bucks
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The “Jersey Shore” cast is bidding to bump its salaries up to a fist-pumping $10,000-an-episode following the wild success of their MTV show.
The cast — including Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, “Pauly D” Delvecchio, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and Jenni “J-Woww” Farley — earned only a few hundred dollars each per episode for the first season, and now want a huge raise for the next one.
A source close to the crew told us, “They want $10,000 an episode, arguing that the stars from ‘The Hills’ get $100,000 per episode and that show doesn’t even rate as high. They’re hanging together like the cast of ‘Friends’ and saying if they don’t all get the pay increase, none of them will return.”
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left, Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino, Jenni ‘J-Woww’ Farley, Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi and DJ Pauly D Delvecchio
Photos: ‘Jersey Shore’s’ Guidos and Guidettes
Thursday’s finale was watched by 4.8 million viewers, three times the audience of the season opener. Now cast members believe they’re worth up to $100,000 each to film the second season this summer. The negotiations are being led by shrewd operator Larry Rudolph, who is managing Pauly D.
But Snooki says that if the talks fail, she plans to find herself a rich man. She told The Post’s Kirsten Fleming: “If I am not tied up with work, I will get my own beach house in Belmar and live it up. There’s mad-hot rich guys there.”
On the party circuit, the “Jersey Shore” stars are in great demand, earning up to $10,000 a night for personal appearances. They’ll miss Pauly D’s deejay gig at Sutton Place tonight because they’ve been invited to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ “Sweet Sixteen” party for his son, Justin. And sources said Snooki has been invited to the Grammys by Ellen DeGeneres.
Snooki said she was hiring a bodyguard to keep fans at bay. The 22-year-old “Princess of Poughkeepsie” explained, “When we try to go to TGI Friday’s or Applebee’s, we can’t eat because people go crazy.”
A rep for MTV refused to comment on the negotiations and added, “We have not yet confirmed a season two.”
How much do you think Snookie is worth?
Former St. Rose coach guilty in sex-talk case; faces up to 100 years
January 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Former St. Rose coach guilty in sex-talk case; faces up to 100 years
By CHARLES WEBSTER
STAFF WRITER
A jury of nine men and three women today convicted “Coach Bart” McInerney on 10 counts of child endangerment for carrying on sexually explicit conversations with a boys between 15 and 17 years old and convincing those boys to text-message him when they masturbated.
The three-week trial of Bartholomew McInerney, 43, of Spring Lake Heights, once a well-liked and respected baseball coach at St. Rose High School in Belmar, revealed he preyed on young players with secret talks that pried into their sexual activity with their girlfriends and steered them toward masturbating and reporting the act to the coach in instant messages and texts.
McInerney is slated to be sentenced on April 23, and faces up to 100 years in prison.
A dozen young men — 11 former players of McInerney’s and one who worked at the family business, McInerney’s Custom Lettering — testified about the disgraced coach’s “uncomfortable” and “awkward” conversations prying into their personal lives.
The victims repeatedly told stories of McInerney cornering them during practice, after practice, at school events, and during seemingly innocent drives home offered by the coach that quickly turned from an anti-drug or -alcohol lecture to probing questions about their sexual activity.
Once the boys admitted to having sexual relations with their girlfriends or hinted that sexual activity was near, McInerney would offer advice that always included masturbation.
Once he convinced the boys masturbation was an alternative to sexual relations, he offered cash payouts for cell phone text messages and Internet instant messages telling him the deed was completed, and using a code to reveal how long it took and how it felt.
McInerney was indicted in October 2008 on 12 counts of child endangerment involving 12 alleged victims. On Monday, state Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mellaci dismissed one of the charges, ruling the activity occurred after one young man’s 18th birthday.
The jury began its deliberations on Thursday. A knock came from their room Friday morning, after 6 1/2 hours of deliberations, with the message that they were prepared to deliver a verdict.
The jury forewoman first announced a not-guilty verdict on one count, then guilty verdicts on the remaining 10 charges.
Jackie Clark, the mother of a 13th alleged victim, 18-year-old Andrew M. Clark, said afterward that she could finally have some closure. She sat in the courtroom for each day of the trial.
“I’m elated that he got 10 guilty charges for what he did to these boys,” she said outside the courthouse. “It’s some closure for me. I’ll never have my son back, but it’s some closure.”
Andrew Clark, a former player of McInerney’s at St. Rose, died just after midnight on June 20, 2008, hours after attending a graduation ceremony at Manasquan High School, where he transferred for his junior year after McInerney’s arrest. He was struck by an NJ Transit train near the Wall Road crossing in Spring Lake.
The death was never conclusively ruled an accident or suicide, but his mother alleges abuse by McInerney was a factor in it. The death came before McInerney was indicted, and endangerment charges involving Andrew Clark were not pursued.
Jackie Clark filed a civil suit against McInerney on behalf of her son’s estate in August 2008. The suit alleges that Andrew Clark was “sexually abused, harassed and endangered” by McInerney, court records show. The lawsuit, which also names St. Rose High School and the Diocese of Trenton as defendants, had been on hold pending the outcome of the criminal trial.
Testimony from at least six victims during the trial revealed McInerney had kept a grip on the young men even after they went off to college, where at least one of the victims continued to text his old coach into his senior year.
At least three of McInerney’s victims said the coach tried to lure them into masturbating for a video camera. One said he was offered McInerney’s dorm room at the University of Alaska, where the team had traveled for a baseball tournament. The victim said McInerney offered him a condom to masturbate in the room, where he found a video camera pointed in his direction.
Two other victims said McInerney gave them his personal video camera with instructions to videotape themselves masturbating so they could learn from viewing their facial expressions during the sex act. They said he offered to destroy the videotape with them to keep others from finding the images.
One victim told of a two-hour car ride home to Brick from a basketball game in Belmar. He said the conversation focused on masturbation, sexual activity and the idea of texting for money.
