2018-09-15 - The Toms River Times

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Seaside Boardwalk Different, Still Rebuilding, 5 Years After Fire Community News! Pages 11-13.

Government Page 7.

Letters Page 8.

Dr. Izzy’s Sound News

Healthy Hearing With Folic Acid

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Dear Pharmacist 7 Natural Remedies For Bug Bites And Stings

–Photo (left) by Peter James Smith, (right) by Jennifer Peacock Of course he came back: Third-generation boardwalk guy Nick Dionisio came back after Sandy, and rebuilt after the fire of 2013. By Jennifer Peacock SEASIDE PARK – Even The New York Times wrote about it. It was also on national TV news. Less than a year after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey Shore, the hard-hit neighboring boroughs of Seaside Heights and Seaside Park faced another disaster, a boardwalk fire that destroyed nearly 50 businesses, and had the winds not shifted when and how they did, possibly the boroughs themselves. Investigators would eventually conclude it was faulty wiring, corroded by Sandy, that sparked

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Inside The Law Page 19.

Business Directory Page 21-22.

Classifieds Page 23.

Wolfgang Puck Page 27.

Horoscope Page 27.

Rain Fails To Dampen Lavallette Founders Day

By Bob Vosseller LAVALLETTE - It began as Lavallette Heritage Day, a time to honor the borough’s long heritage as a resort community, boat building industry center and year round family town. Founder’s Day, which replaced it six years ago, had a slightly different focus, to show that Lavallette was back after Superstorm Sandy. Symbolic to that was the fact that attendees to this year’s event didn’t let some periodic rain spoil their fun and frolics. “The Mayor (Walter G. LaCicero) asked us to show the community that we were back and we’ve been doing this ever since,” Susan Kotch, Founders Day co-chair said. (Lavallette - See Page 20)

the fire that originated at Kohr’s Frozen Custard, a building that sat on the boardwalk near Porter Avenue, the dividing line between the Park and the Heights. Thirty-mile-an-hour winds pushed the fire from south to north, with everything in its path destroyed. The blaze broke out around 2 p.m. It took hundreds of firefighters from across the state several hours to bring it under control. Heights lifer Nick Dionisio spoke with The Times Sept. 13, 2013, just a day after that “all-call” fire (Boardwalk - See Page 4)

| September 15, 2018

Quinn Replaces Bartlett On Ballot

By Jennifer Peacock TOMS RIVER – In a little more than two hours, Gary Quinn will accept the nomination and appointment to run alongside Freeholder Gerry P. Little on the Republican ticket in the November midterm elections. Little is in his office at 101 Hooper Ave., having just presided over maybe the shortest Freeholder meeting in Ocean County history. (About six minutes, from start to finish.) He sat in on the interviews for candidates the evening before, though not as a voting committee member. He knows who, out of the 10 contenders, the committee is going to recommend at the Ocean (Ballot - See Page 2)

Local Footballers Look To New Season; Others Cut

By Chris Christopher Former Southern Regional High School players Mike Gesicki and Clark Harris have landed berths on National Football League rosters. Gesicki, a tight end out of Penn State University, hopes for a big rookie season with the Miami Dolphins. Harris, a long snapper from Rutgers University, is with the Cincinnati Bengals and hopes to earn All-Pro honors for the second straight season. Both played for coach Chuck Donohue at Southern. The news was not as positive, (Football - See Page 14)

–Photo courtesy of Stony Brook University Ex-Lakewood football and boys basketball standout Tyrice Beverette, wearing the white jersey, was cut by the Cincinnati Bengals after starring at Stony Brook University.

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