David Gowdy, the father of the slain Jason Gowdy, holds a photo of himself and his son at his Pine Street home in Sandy Hook in July. –Bee Photo, Gorosko

 

Police Chief James E. Lysaght, Jr, at an April meeting at which the Police Commission provided him with his third consecutive negative job performance evaluation, setting the stage for the commission’s move to terminate him. –Bee Photo, Gorosko

 

Flood waters flow through a picnic grove in Dickinson Park during the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd in September. –Bee Photo, Gorosko

 

The area near the eighth green at Newtown Country Club was inundated by flood waters on the morning after Hurricane Floyd. –Bee Photo, Gorosko