Danny Murphy is sold on grass-fed beef. So much so that Murphy, owner of Danny’s Grill in Red Bank, will soon expand his restaurant’s current offering of grass-fed New York strip and rib eye steaks to include filet mignon and chuck hamburger. Murphy sa…
N.J. heat wave highlight: high nighttime lows
Last week’s heat wave in New Jersey was not very noteworthy, although the mercury hit 100 degrees in Point Pleasant Friday, according to the state climatologist. That’s "quite remarkable," David A. Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist a…
No one solution can protect coast
As we have seen in the months following superstorm Sandy, technology can be used to lift homes out of harm’s way and protect beaches at the Jersey Shore. But according to a study released this month, natural coastal defenses such as dunes and reefs als…
June rain triples the norm in much of N.J.
Are you sick of the watery weather? It seems like the rain has been largely nonstop since June 1 in New Jersey. Indeed, it’s raining right now, with a flood advisory in Ocean County, according to the National Weather Service. Earlier today, we were wit…
Rutgers gives N.J. farmers alternatives to pesticides
When a barrage of brown marmorated stink bugs descended upon New Jersey in 2010, Hauser Hill Farms was not about to surrender its popular yellow, white and doughnut peaches. Nor was the family farm in Old Bridge willing to sacrifice its harvest of appl…
WATCHDOG: Beach protection but at what price? Shore towns weigh options
Sandy’s level of devastation across the Jersey Shore became a wake-up call about beachfront protection to officials here – so much so that towns are about to spend several million in taxpayer dollars to bolster their fragile shores. Officials from the …
Storm pulls away from Shore; ‘weekend looks actually good’
A strong storm with lightning strikes injured one man and also struck a building as it socked waterlogged New Jersey with high winds and flooding on Thursday. "The good fortune with (Thursday) morning’s storm was it was fast-moving, so there wasn’t…
Blueberries: Healthy to eat and fun to grow
If you believe everything you read, eating blueberries may be just about the healthiest thing in the universe. Claims include blueberries have the highest antioxidant capacity of all fresh fruit, and they reduce belly fat, neutralize free radicals, red…
Area braces for more heavy rain, flash floods, possible hail, tornadoes
New Jersey is bracing for a strong storm system that’s forecast to dump heavy rain, less than a week after back-to-back soakers saturated the area. The storm system, hailing from the Midwest, may cause major river flooding and could spawn tornadoes, la…
Rains bring flooding throughout Monmouth, Ocean counties as wet June gets wetter
This month is only in its 11th day, but Mother Nature has already dumped more than a June’s worth of rain in New Jersey, causing flooding and soggy conditions, a state climate expert said Monday. "We’re a long way from being the wettest June on rec…
