South Seaside Park

Free entry into New Jersey's state parks was intended to offer "affordability and opportunity" as a way to cope with increased costs of gas and inflation. Instead, it's turned into a nightmare.

Friends released balloons in Keith Pinto's honor Thursday night and left Post-it notes on his lifeguard stand.

Friends and family gathered Tuesday night at White Sands Beach to remember a young lifeguard who was killed by lightning Monday afternoon.

"We lost a special guy tonight, one who was so close and meant so much to so many people," the fund's creator Chase Vander Vliet wrote on a GoFundMe page created for his funeral expenses.