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1 week ago | 
starnewsgroup.com | Tommy Watters
BAY HEAD — Students of Bay Head School visited local architect Verity Frizzell at her home on Bay Avenue to learn more about architecture and ways to improve energy efficiency.
In recent years, Frizzell has come to Bay Head School to teach students about architecture and what architects do, coinciding with Architecture Week, which is celebrated by the American Institute of Architects. This year, however, she invited the students out to her home to learn about the renovation it is undergoing.
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1 week ago | 
starnewsgroup.com | Tommy Watters
POINT PLEASANT — The Point Pleasant Boro Band Boosters will hold a clothing drive on Wednesday, April 29, from 3 to 7 p.m. and Thursday, April 30, from 3 to 5 p.m.
The band boosters will collect new or gently used men, women and children’s clothing including coats, shoes, purses, belts, bed and bath linens, jewelry, hats, backpacks and stuffed animals. Also accepted are bicycles and baby strollers.
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1 week ago | 
starnewsgroup.com | Tommy Watters
BAY HEAD — E-bikes would be prohibited on the beach and fires would require permits, under an ordinance introduced at the council meeting on April 7.
The mayor and council unanimously introduced the ordinance, which updates some rules on the beach relating to motor vehicles and fires.
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1 week ago | 
starnewsgroup.com | Tommy Watters
POINT PLEASANT — Residents had an egg-cellent time on Wednesday evening as the annual Point Pleasant Borough Easter Egg Hunt got underway.
Having to reschedule from Sunday due to the weather, residents braved the unseasonably cold weather for a chance to gather the 5,000 Easter eggs that filled the park.
Most of the eggs contained nothing, but a few lucky eggs contained prize tickets, which could be reclaimed for over 50 Easter baskets, packed with candy of all sorts.
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1 week ago | 
starnewsgroup.com | Tommy Watters
BAY HEAD — Bay Head is to set a curfew for anyone under the age of 18 starting at 10 p.m. for most of the year.
At the council meeting on April 7, the mayor and council unanimously introduced an ordinance to set a curfew.
Juveniles are not allowed to be in a “public place” from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. within Bay Head.
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1 week ago | 
starnewsgroup.com | Tommy Watters
POINT PLEASANT — The Point Pleasant Borough Library was bustling Tuesday night as students from Ocean Road Elementary School showcased their art in a reception.
The art has been hanging in the meeting room all month, and will continue to until the end of April.
Mimi DeSomma, special education teacher, told The Ocean Star, “This is our second annual art show for our four self-contained classes at Ocean Road School.
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1 week ago | 
starnewsgroup.com | Tommy Watters
BAY HEAD — In an exercise conducted last week, local fire companies and other first responders came together in Bay Head to fight a simulated house fire to help them better prepare for emergencies.
Andrew Welsh, chief of the Bay Head Fire Department, said this was a mutual aid drill with surrounding fire companies and local EMS as they simulated a live fire, using artificial smoke, man-sized dummies and water pumped onto the structure.
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1 week ago | 
starnewsgroup.com | Tommy Watters
POINT PLEASANT — The Friends of the Point Pleasant Borough Library hosted its annual book sale on April 11 and 12, raising a record-breaking amount of money for library programs.
Before the sale was underway, the Friends collected books on Monday, April 7, and Tuesday, April 8. Halfway through the day on Tuesday, the friends had to stop accepting donations due to the sheer amount of community members who donated.
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2 weeks ago | 
starnewsgroup.com | Tommy Watters
BAY HEAD — The Dune Grass Cafe will be closing its doors in Bay Head this Sunday, and is moving to share a space with Used To Be’s on Route 35.
The restaurant announced last month that it would close its doors at the Bay Head location this spring.
Thomas Walls, co-owner of the Dune Grass Cafe, with his wife Mary, said the lease officially ends at the end of the month. However, the restaurant and its employees have to remove several large pieces of equipment from the existing building.
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2 weeks ago | 
starnewsgroup.com | Tommy Watters
BAY HEAD — While Bay Head Chapel is not technically an opera house, the acoustics seemed up to the task last Sunday, as singers performed in “A Taste of Broadway & Opera.”
As part of an ongoing concert series, the chapel welcomed acclaimed artists to perform a variety of Broadway and operatic songs for a packed house of residents on Sunday afternoon.
