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Hurricane Sandy

1,000 converge on North End beach to restore Sandy-ravaged dunes

Students from middle school to college lend labor

By Molly Mulshine


An estimated 1,000 students from middle school through college pitched in to plant dune grasses and install snow fencing at North End beach this week. Starting on Monday, 200 to 300 college students from Rutgers University, Montclair University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the United States Naval Academy joined organizer Tim Donnelly and other […]

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Mar 22, 2013
Asbury Park

Sandy repairs continue: North End dunes to be replenished

College students to spend spring break planting dune grass in Asbury

By Molly Mulshine


College students and local volunteers will work to replenish the dunes on the North End beach at the end of the month. The dunes were decimated by Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29, 2012. The volunteers need to work fast — the unofficial deadline for planting new dune grass is April 1 each year, according to […]

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Mar 05, 2013