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Has anyone driven down Main Street in Lake Como lately? If you've headed south down Main, between 17th and 18th Avenues, you may have noticed a series of ripples in the asphalt. These bumps are linear, equally spaced, and repeat along a good portion of the roadway. A similar pattern can be found crossing the road just before you leave Spring Lake on Brighton Ave. Go see for yourself…. I'll wait. Now that you're back you're probably saying “What's causing these odd waves??” We

This week I've been wanting to write but am enrolled in an online course that takes priority. However, class got me thinking of some quick tidbits about learning and teaching. Here they are. -Spring Lake NJ has the oldest Volunteer First Aid Squad in the nation. Belmar held the title as the oldest until they shut down a few years back -Charles Wilbur Brahn was a founding member of Spring Lake First Aid Squad and served as Captain for 31 of its first 35 years. -CW taught first

The history of the Brahn family can be traced in the Spring Lake area all the way back to 1812. Oddly enough, our origins begin with the similarly sounding Brand Family. Not to be confused with Brahn, the Brand side of our lineage traces back to David Brand who inherited 12 acres from his father William and settled near Pitney and Ocean Avenue. In 1813 Brand's Road was approved by Monmouth County and traversed present day Pitney, Church, and Allaire Roads. The road terminated

In 1882 Carrie Tuttle Brahn was the first Brahn born within Spring Lake's borders. In 1898, Charles Russell and Sarah welcomed Charles Wilbur as the first Spring Lake Brahn boy. In technical terms neither of the kids were born in “Spring Lake”. They were in fact born in Como, which was its own town from 1881-1899. In 1899 Como became a part of North Spring Lake, which became a part of The Borough of Spring Lake in 1903. In 1873, Joseph Tuttle of Newark conceived of the seasid

On September 8, 1934 Spring Lake residents awoke to one last surge of summer visitors. The weather this day would in no way be considered beach worthy. In fact, a harsh nor'easter had been blowing through the evening. Unfortunately, "the tourists" coming ashore had arrived only out of necessity. They had abandoned The Morro Castle which caught fire off the Jersey Shore. It's likely the direction of this storm helped many of these victims make landfall. Had winds not been out