Friday, July 6, 2012
Barrella says state should send troopers since it won't let the town close bars at midnight
Point Beach Mayor Vincent Barrella says he will ask Gov. Chris Christie to send state troopers to patrol the boardwalk after midnight because the state is allowing bars to serve alcohol past that time. Barrella says he'll ask the Borough Council to support a request he'll make for state troopers to police "the center of the boardwalk from midnight to 2 or 3 a.m." since the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control has temporarily blocked the town from enforcing an ordinance for bars to stop serving alcohol by midnight. "I'll write to the governor, in light of the state interference, to send in 18 state troopers a night, so I can pull our officers off the boardwalk and put them into residential neighborhoods," Barrella said. Since the …
Saturday, June 30, 2012
State ABC won't let town enforce midnight bar closings yet
Point Beach bars can stay open until 2 a.m. for now until an appeal is decided, ruled the director of the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control on Friday night. The town is temporarily barred from enforcing an ordinance, adopted on May 15, that would have compelled all bars in Point Beach to stop serving alcohol at midnight starting Sunday, now that ABC Director Michael Halfacre has granted a "stay." (See attached PDF). Halfacre wrote in his ruling that compelling Jenkinson's and Martell's to close at midnight while the appeal they filed against the ordinance is pending, would be unfair. "Should the Appellants prevail after a full hearing, there is no method of redress for them to recoup the financial losses they would incur while …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Pat Storino, Jenkinson's owner, speaks at Point Beach GOP Club
Midnight bar closings would force Jenkinson's Boardwalk to lay off 50 of its 200 full-time, year-round workers, Pat Storino told the Point Beach GOP organization at the Woman's Club on St. Louis Avenue on Thursday night. "People have told me I should lay off the Point Pleasant Beach residents first, so they can picket," Storino said, adding, laughing, "So I may have to lay off my own kids." Layoffs would be one of the effects of a local ordinance adopted on May 15 that would compel all bars in Point Beach to stop serving alcohol at midnight, said Storino, who has owned Jenkinson's since 1977. That ordinance will be put to its first test today when the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) is expected to decide whether to "stay…
TommyG
9:59 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
A Resident, The unaware excuse is getting old and tired. Our council members should be asking that question. Why were they "allowing" this to take place? What I thought I have seen on here and App, Someone on here posted the county clerk that signed off on this was Former Daniel Hennessy that was also PPB Mayor for years. Hmmmmm....Usual politics being played, jersey style! more ›