Vol. 24 - No. 22
In This Week’s Edition
THE MANCHESTER
TIMES
FOR BREAKING NEWS
JERSEYSHOREONLINE.COM | September 15, 2018
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A Sensory Garden Blooms At Manchester High School Community News! Pages 10-12.
–Photos by Jennifer Peacock Bailey Farrell earned her Girl Scouts Gold Award by creating a sensory garden in the Manchester Township High School interior courtyard.
Government Page 9.
Letters Page 8.
Dr. Izzy’s Sound News
Healthy Hearing With Folic Acid
Page 18.
Dear Pharmacist 7 Natural Remedies For Bug Bites And Stings
Page 19.
Inside The Law Page 21.
Business Directory Page 24-25.
Classifieds Page 23.
Wolfgang Puck Page 31.
Horoscope Page 31.
By Jennifer Peacock MANCHESTER – One Manchester graduate has earned a prestigious Girl Scouts award for creating a space that will benefit high school students for years to come. Bailey Farrell, 17, presented her sensory garden, which sits in the school’s interior courtyard, to family, friends
and school officials at the end of August. Her volunteer work to create the garden earned her the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest and most difficult award to earn in the scouts. The award is open only to high school girls. They are tasked with identifying an issue, researching it, and then creating and executing a plan.
The projects usually take close to 100 hours to complete, and after, the girls must make a presentation on what their project is. The Girls Scouts of America says the award distinguishes girls from other candidates in the college application process as well as job prospects. (Garden - See Page 4)
Detox Zoning Ordinance Held Off
By Jennifer Peacock LAKEHURST – The ordinance that would have made way for a detox center in the borough will be tabled until next year, officials said. Councilwoman Patricia Hodges said the ad hoc ordinance committee met the last week of August and decided that all borough ordinances - including land use and zoning ordinances - need a comprehensive review. That will likely begin in January. The ordinance may never come to the table, she said. She had asked that the land use ordinance introduced for fi rst reading in August be tabled, because it had not been reviewed by that committee. She, Council President Steven Oglesby and Mayor Harry Robbins comprise that committee. Hodges still didn’t have an answer as to who drafted that ordinance, and included it on the Aug. 16 council agenda. The ordinance would have allowed a detox facility to be built on a parcel of land at least 2 acres large. La Bove Grande, at the westernmost traffic circle in the borough, sits on more than 2 acres. One banquet hall owner, Jerry Bove, would not offer a definitive answer when reached by phone by The Manchester Times Aug. 21. He did say La Bove Grand will remain in business “for a long time.”
Quinn Replaces Bartlett On Ballot
By Jennifer Peacock at the Ocean County Republican Organization TOMS RIVER – In a little more than two hours, later that evening. He does not know if one of the Gary Quinn will accept the nomination and ap- other nine will contest it. pointment to run alongside Freeholder Gerry P. What he also knows is that no one thought the Little on the Republican ticket in the man who is the longest serving Free“Nothing November midterm elections. holder in the state, who has battled Little is in his office at 101 Hooper lasts forever,” illness before, would drop out of the Ave., having just presided over maybe -John Bartlett campaign. the shortest Freeholder meeting in Little’s son is a lieutenant is the U.S. Ocean County history. (About six minutes, from Navy, stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey start to finish.) He sat in on the interviews for can- Island in Washington State. It was during this didates the evening before, though not as a voting cross-country journey, probably somewhere in committee member. He knows who, out of the 10 Wyoming, where he got the call. contenders, the committee is going to recommend It was John Bartlett, his running mate.
He was dropping out. He had to. “He explained that he needed this additional treatment, that he was feeling weak, and he just didn’t have the energy. He didn’t think it was fair to me. He didn’t think it was fair to the people of Ocean County. He felt it was his honorable responsibility to step aside,” Little said. This was to be their sixth election together. They knew each other for years, before Little became a Freeholder, with his work as chief of staff for the Ninth Legislative District. But, they really got to know each other with Bartlett’s proposal for the natural lands trust (Bartlett - See Page 5)
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