Friday, June 1, 2012
Schools superintendent says district is merely allowing use of its facility, not condoning the show starring former WWE/TNA star
Local Masons are teaming up with a wrestling organization to host a charity event at the Barnegat High School Saturday featuring controversial wrestling superstar Matt Hardy, whose appearance has earned the ire of some parents because of his history of drug abuse. Hardy is a well-known act in wrestling, who's performed for more than 18 years. Along with his brother Jeff he formed the “Hardy Boyz” tag team in the WWF/WWE, capturing the companies' tag team titles six times. Perhaps his best-known involvement with the WWE was in the company’s first ever “Tables, Ladders, and Chairs” match at WrestleMania which later became one of the defining moments of the WWE’s famous “Attitude Era”. More recently Hardy competed in Total Nonstop Action …
Friday, January 27, 2012
Unusually warm temperatures at the Shore "approaching record territory"
January? It's more like March today – stormy skies and all. The Shore is seeing some unseasonably warm weather this week, which forecasters say is contributing to the chance of winter thunderstorms and high winds today. But don’t get too attached to the balmy breezes: Plunging temperatures and possible snow showers are in the works for the weekend. Temperatures started rising last night, and are expected to hit the low- to mid-60s in Ocean and Monmouth counties today, according to the National Weather Service. “We’re still kind of locked into a rather mild pattern that we’ve been in over most of the winter,” said Kristin Kline, a meteorologist with the NWS’s Mount Holly station. And the movement of pressure systems in the region has …
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
New Jersey is in the 5-day cone of uncertainty for the season's first hurricane
“It looks like it will affect us one way or another." That is how the National Weather Service in Mount Holly is describing the potential impacts of Hurricane Irene on the Jersey Shore. Meteorologists are advising coastal residents to plan ahead for a nasty weekend, but not to panic, just yet. As of 2 p.m. Tuesday, Irene was situated about 55 miles south of the Grand Turk Island. The Category 2 hurricane's maximum recorded wind speed by a Hurricane Hunter plane was 100 mph. The National Hurricane Center is currently predicting that the storm will make an initial landfall off the southern North Carolina coast by late Saturday night, but New Jersey is not out of the woods. In the updated forecast track at 2 p.m. Tuesday, New Jersey remained …
GLP
8:37 am on Sunday, June 3, 2012
I'm glad somebody finally said it! Throughout reading the article and the comments below, I kept thinking...what about all the other professional athletes who are horrific role models? Do the parents who complained about Matt Hardy prohibit their children from watching or attending professional sporting events all together? I think we'd be hard pressed to fine one sport that DIDN'T have athletes … more ›