HOLGATE — It took only a couple days of storms to wash away week’s worth of work to build a protective berm on Long Beach Island where successive storms have taken their toll on many beaches this winter, officials said on Wednesday. In what literally has been a situation of shoveling sand against the tide, Long…
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"The Train I was Supposed to Take Blew Up"
Shyam Patel (right), a recent graduate of Montclair State University, tells his girlfriend, Amina Abdelrahman (left), a story about the summer vacation he will never be able to forget. It was July 11, 2006. That was the day that my family and I were leaving India, after a spending the summer visiting relatives. We planned on…
Meet N.J.'s new 'American Idol' contender Gianna Isabella
JACKSON — For years, “American Idol” has chronicled its contestants by splitting their lives in two, juxtaposing the singers’ polished, pop-star performances with humanizing, “this could be you’ backstories. A typical “Idol” tale goes like this: “John rocks the night away as his bar-band’s gritty frontman — when he’s not busy as a construction worker and…