'Save Sandy Hook' feels that going back to the origins of the U.S. National Park Service will help us all – citizens and federal officials – remember what the NPS is supposed to be all about, and that is not commercialization of park lands
Judith Stanley Coleman, chairman of the Save Sandy Hook citizens group
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The mission of our organization is to help conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife of Fort Hancock and Sandy Hook and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
September 18th, 2007
Save Sandy Hook...proposal overly commercial for Fort Hancock
September 7th, 2007
SAVE SANDY HOOK
SAVE OUR BRIDGE
FUND RAISER
SEPTEMBER 23,2007
July 30th, 2007
"this investigation will shed some light on why the agreement was signed in the first place"
July 13th, 2007
Developer must wait until lawsuit is settled, opponents state
June 30th, 2007
ASBURY PARK PRESS...time for Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J.,to demand a federal investigation.
January 16th, 2007
Sandy Hook's superintendent...
seven years of misinformation...
misleading comments...Highlands-Sea Bright drawbridge.
April 25th, 2008 : Peter P. O'Such Jr., TOPIC OF THE DAY: Sandy Hook ASBURY PARK PRESS
estuarine land isn't being made any more....Once you develop coastal lands, they are gone forever.....
February 29th, 2008 : John Burton, TWO RIVER TIMES
Save Sandy Hook files appeal of ruling by federal judge
February 5th, 2008 : Peter P. O'Such Jr. , ASBURY PARK PRESS
Charges of Park Service procurement wrongdoing remain unanswered and unrefuted
January 31st, 2008 : Peter P. O'Such Jr. , HUB
Fort Hancock never been subjected to the scrutiny of the courts
November 29th, 2007 : John Burton, TWO RIVER TIMES
Park Superintendent says developer has until June to show financing
BREAKING NEWS Battle Over Sandy Hook Continues
Save Sandy Hook files appeal of federal judge ruling
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• Sandy Hook has a restored station built by the U.S Life-Saving Service, the forerunner in the late 19th Century to the modern U.S. Coast Guard, which is still stationed at Sandy Hook;
• Sandy Hook was fortified during the War of 1812 and Fort Hancock and its gun batteries were established in 1895 to protect Raritan Bay and New York Harbo;
• Sandy Hook is host to more than 300 species birds and is an important way station on the Atlantic Flyway for migratory birds and butterflies;
• The tall, white lighthouse at Sandy Hook, New Jersey was the fifth lighthouse to be built in America, when erected in 1764, and today is the oldest standing light tower in the United States. originally called the "New York Lighthouse, " its unfailing beam has befriended innumerable vessels as they have passed in or out of New York.;
• The barrier island was home to Unami Indians for thousands of years, and offers an important historical and cultural link to the now-lost original inhabitants of New Jersey;
• Sandy Hook was one of the first landfalls sighted by Henry Hudson as he explored the Atlantic coastline;