Vol. 16 - No. 15
In This Week’s Edition
THE TOMS RIVER
TIMES
FOR BREAKING NEWS
JERSEYSHOREONLINE.COM
| September 8, 2018
Your FREE Weekly Hometown Newspaper For Toms River, Island Heights, Ortley Beach & Lavallette
Community News! Pages 10-13.
Dr. Izzy’s Sound News
9 Tips To Help Detect Hearing Loss
Page 16.
Dear Pharmacist Amazing Health Benefits Of Prunes
Page 17.
Inside
Wunder Wiener Owner, Back On His Feet, Gives Thanks
Page 19.
Inside The Law Page 24.
Business Directory Page 22-23.
Classifieds Page 21.
Wolfgang Puck Page 27.
Horoscope Page 27.
False Forecasts Hurt Shore Area Businesses
By Bob Vosseller OCEAN COUNTY – For most seasonal businesses who depend on day trippers to provide their service, a weather forecast of gloom and doom can be devastating and many said that is precisely what happened this summer season. Bill Petruzel, owner of Barnacle Bill’s arcade and miniature golf, which celebrated its 55th year of operation in Ortley Beach on July 21, said, “the weather is always important and this year we had a nontrend of sunny days followed by some rainy weather. It was not consistent.” “Generally we had a good season but if anything it was wet and we would have done a little better,” Petruzel added. Nearby is one of four Kohr’s (Shore - See Page 4)
–Photos by Bob Vosseller The Starlight Motel was busy on Labor Day but managers of the business said that the loss of beach operation and bad weather forecasts have hurt the business this summer.
Susan Bialasz of Somerset checks out a pink bicycle from The Beach Authority in Lavallette on Labor Day. She sympathized with business owners who were hurt by rainy weather this summer as well as bad weather forecasts that proved incorrect.
Toms River Clarifies Busing Aid
By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – Approximately $850,000 in payments to township families who go to private schools were included in the 2018-2019 budget, officials said. However, the state will pay for almost half of this. The state mandates that districts provide transportation for students who attend non-public schools. Or, the district can choose to provide
aid in lieu of transportation. Districts will provide this aid, $1,000, if it is more cost-efficient than busing the students. The Toms River School District has budgeted about $850,000 for nonpublic student transportation, said William J. Doering, business administrator for the district. Most – but certainly not all - go to Orthodox (Busing- See Page 5)
Second Local Official Switches Parties
By Judy Smestad-Nunn BRICK – Councilman Jim Fozman announced that he would be switching his allegiance to the Republican party after he said he was told he was no longer invited to political caucus meetings since “they feel I no longer share their political philosophy,” he said at the end of the Aug. 28 council meeting. “I didn’t leave the Demo-
cratic party, the Democratic Party left me,” said Fozman, paraphrasing the late President Ronald Reagan. In a prepared statement, Fozman said the all-Democrat council and mayor were distancing him because he was increasingly at odds with “their lack of transparency, and calling them out on the lack of (Parties - See Page 6)
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