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Vol. 23 - No. 52
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| April 14, 2018
Your FREE Weekly Hometown Newspaper For Manchester, Lakehurst and Whiting
Photographer’s Love Letter To Lake Horicon
Community News! Don’t miss what’s happening in your town.
Pages 11-17.
Letters Page 8.
Government Page 9.
Dr. Izzy’s Sound News Why Does Your Hearing Aid Break Down?
Page 20.
Dear Pharmacist Judge Rules Coffee Shops Must Display Cancer Warning
–Photos courtesy Denise Maynard and by Jennifer Peacock (Above, left) One of Denise Maynard’s photographs of a bird. (Above, right) Denise Maynard is working in her element: Lake Horicon. By Jennifer Peacock LAKEHURST – Everyone thinks Denise Maynard lives in Lakehurst because she’s always there, camera in hand, ambling Lake Horicon. She remembers when Harry Wright Lake was built (and went to school with his grandson),
although she hasn’t been to the lake in ages. She’s part of the fi rst graduating class of Manchester Township High School. She grew up in the Beckerville section of the township, and today lives in Pine Acres Manor, just about a mile away from the lake.
But it’s to Lake Horicon she goes, nearly every day, to photograph the flora and fauna surrounding its shores. She shares her photographs on Lakehurst New Jersey Facebook group. The photos of birds and sunsets have drawn people out to the (Photographer’s - See Page 4)
Page 21.
Inside The Law Page 25.
Business Directory Page 28-29.
Classifieds Page 27.
Fun Page Page 26.
Wolfgang Puck Page 35.
Horoscope Page 35.
County Adopts $416 Million Budget
Girl Scouts To Donate Flower Box At Pine Lake
up $8.1 million this year. The By Jennifer Peacock OCEAN COUNTY – Ocean county will raise $346.5 million County residents will see a half-cent by taxation, up 1.29 percent but still below cap by about $6 million. decrease in their county tax bill. The county has $55.4 million Freeholder John C. Bartlett Jr. surplus ack nowl“We never want to take and will edged the d e c r e a s e more from surplus than we t a p i n t o was small are pretty well assured of about $22 but is mov- replacing during the year.” million of that for ing in the right direc- –Freeholder John C. Bartlett Jr. this year’s tion. He is the main architect of the budget. Bartlett told Jersey Shore Online, this paper’s web version, annual county budget. The tax rate will decrease to 37.4 he expects to replenish the surplus cents per $100 valuation. The rate used by underspending what has dropped one-tenth of a cent last year. been budgeted, or “unanticipated” The total budget is $416,092,260, (Budget - See Page 23)
MANCHESTER Members of Manchester Girl Scout Troop 14
–Photo courtesy Manchester Township met with Mayor Ken- donate a flower box at neth Palmer on April the entrance to Pine 4 to present plans to (Scouts - See Page 5)
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