The Superstorm Sandy disaster and recovery on Long Beach Island, as was chronicled for seven months by the staff of The SandPaper. Part 8.

Long Beach Township Mayor Joseph Mancini met with about 50 local representatives of the real estate and insurance industry on Feb. 7, urging them to lobby harder for beachfill easement holdouts to agree to sign. The issue had renewed urgency, as Mancini needed a beachfill project area ready for federal funding when he goes to Washington, D.C.