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Best Places To Eat In & Around Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

There's great news in the neighborhood, especially for diner foodies. The Ocean Bay Diner is finally back on its feet after an 1989 fire destroyed the long-standing landmark eatery. With new owners, the Antonatos family, who took their own children to the OB back in its glory days, the diner is back in action and vying for top spot as one of the best places to eat in the area.

The diner, in Point Pleasant, boasts easy access to the crystal clear ocean waters and expansive sands of Point Pleasant Beach. But it's not the only eatery with prime location to the mile-long boardwalk, fun in the sun, and antique shopping delights available in these Ocean County boroughs. If you're looking for other great diner-style experiences or casual eating spots in…

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Documentary Details How Lives Were Impacted By Sandy

The world premiere of a movie, "Heart of the Shore: Defying a Superstorm", documenting the lives of several New Jerseyans as they deal with the aftermath of Sandy will be on Saturday, October 11 at Seaside Park Beach. Directed by Cliff Charles and Ron Elliot, this amazing documentary details what regular folks have had to go through to get their lives back into some kind of order.

Following the utter devastation left in Sandy's wake, people living and working where the storm hit hardest faced all kinds of challenges and barriers to rebuilding and getting their lives back to some kind of normalness.

This film documents a year in the lives of those people as they fight and engage with Insurance companies, Mortgagors, and Governmental agencies to…

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Does New Jersey Need 5 State Songs?

After going decades without a state song, New Jersey could soon have no less than 5 state songs.

After some 50 years of bickering, lobbying and backroom dealing, New Jersey lawmakers have come up with a unique bipartisan deal they hope will solve the long-standing State Song issue. To that end, a proposed new bill (S2438) would create five songs New Jerseyians can call their own.

Sadly none of the songs are by Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston or even Frank Sinatra. Instead the list includes:

• "I'm From New Jersey" by Red Mascara would be called the "state song"
• "New Jersey My Home" by Patrick Finley would be the "state anthem"
• "In New Jersey" has lyrics inspired by a 4th grade class would be the "state children's song"
• …

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