Consider this post an early preview to this week’s Greg’s List.
On Saturday afternoon June 22 from noon till five the Highlands Business Partnership and over 15 restaurants, including MMM advertisers Chilangos and Windansea, are serving scrumptious menu samples and delectable drinks as they kick off the official start of summer with their annual Taste of Highlands.
The event starts off at Huddy Park at the corner of Waterwitch Ave and Shore Drive where participants will be given a keepsake tote bag with directions to each establishment. Transportation between establishments will be provided for those who prefer to collect their calories rather than burn them off between stops.
FEMA has updated its Base Flood Elevation maps for Atlantic, Hudson, Monmouth and Ocean counties.
Residents and businesses can enter the address of their properties and find their flood zone designation, the base flood elevation for the property and the estimated ground elevation of the location.
The interactive map site can be found here or by clicking on the picture.
Steve Lonegan, the GOP front runner in the August 13 Special U.S. Senate Primary has filed a challenge to the candidacy of his only opponent, Dr. Alieta Eck based allegedly invalid signatures.
Calling Eck a “prospective candidate,” the Lonegan campaign alleged that Eck herself claimed to witness signatures that she did not in fact witness.
Lonegan’s attorney, F. Michael Daily, said in the challenge that “numerous books contain signatures purportedly witnessed by Alieta Eck and investigation has disclosed that contrary to her affirmations she did not witness such signatures.”
Daily, who has been retained by the Lonegan for Senate campaign, also alleged in the objections that other witnesses, some of whom also claimed to have gathered hundreds of signatures, are similarly invalid.
Governor Chris Christie is schedule to deliver an address entitled “Cooperation and Collaboration: A Conversation on Leadership” this afternoon, 4PM at former President Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative is Chicago.
Our friend Matt Rooney at Save Jersey reports that New Jersey’s Superior Court’s Appellate Division ruled that the Special Election for U. S. Senate called by Governor Christie passes legal muster.
Rooney says that an appeal to the State Supreme Court is possible.
Middletown Patch is reporting that FEMA will release new flood maps for Atlantic, Hudson, Monmouth and Ocean Counties on Monday, June 17.
As expected, the new ‘preliminary’ maps will result in less homes being located in ‘V’ zones than were so rated in the maps released by FEMA in December following Superstorm Sandy. V zones are areas along coasts that are subject to inundation by the 1-percent-annual-chance flood event with additional hazards associated with storm-induced waves.
Many of the properties located in V zones in the December flood maps will be in ‘A’ zones in the maps being released next week, according to a statement by U.S. Senator Bob Menendez as quoted by Patch.
A zones are also subject to the 1-percent annual-change flood event (100 year flood) but without the additional hazards from waves.
Homes in A zones will not have to be raised as high and homes in V zones and will have lower flood insurance premiums.
Consider this post an early preview to this week’s Greg’s List.
