Vol. 24 - No. 35
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THE MANCHESTER
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By Jennifer Peacock MANCHESTER – The consolidation of two county operational buildings into one location in Manchester continues. The county approved another $6 million for the development and construction of a transportation garage on Ridgeway Boulevard, which will house county buses and their maintenance and repairs. That garage, the Western County Facilities, will share services with the county road department and some IT offsite backup, which is already on that site. The garage should be operational
by spring 2019, County Business Administrator Carl Block said. The new location consolidates two locations - one in Jackson, and another in North Dover - one of which will be decommissioned (Jackson), and the other which will go out to bid in several weeks and be used for other county operations, such as the fire marshal, Block said. The county outgrew its road department garage in Jackson, which could not be expanded. The transportation department also outgrew its garage in Toms River on Route 9. The total cost of the project will be about $12 million, Block said.
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–Photo courtesy Manchester Township School District Dakota Adams (left) and Leilani Correa (right) have made commitments to continue their academic and athletic futures. By Jennifer Peacock MANCHESTER – Two Manchester Township High School basketball players have signed to play college basketball next fall. The Purple Knights at Bridgeport University in Bridgeport, Connecticut, signed Dakota Adams, who has played with the Hawks for all four years. She was named Third Team All Shore as a sophomore and All B-South Division after her sophomore and junior seasons. She’s undecided on her college major. The West Virginia University Mountaineers, located in Morgantown, (Basketball - See Page 4)
–Photo by Chris Lundy Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer addresses the Ocean County Mayors’ Association at the Cove restaurant in Toms River. By Chris Lundy nato’s Blue HART - Heroin Addiction TOMS RIVER – Five years ago, the Recovery Treatment - program. This Ocean County Prosecutor didn’t need program allows substance abusers to a platform, said Bradley Billhimer, the turn in their dangerous substances man who took over that job in October. at participating police departments The prosecutor’s job used to be more without any repercussions. They can straightforward, as being one of the then receive free addiction treatment top law enforcement officers in the and recovery services. region. You lock up bad guys and “The chiefs were wary of me because protect people. they thought I would cut it,” Billhimer The opioid epidemic changed all said. But he’s not. It will be part of his that. Ocean County saw 53 overdose platform to combat drug addiction in deaths in 2012. This doubled to 112 the county. reported overdose deaths in 2013. Another part will be teaching teenThat number would almost double agers coping skills. Stress is always again to 216 in 2016, before dropping going to come, and kids need to know to 163 in 2017. However, the county how to handle it. The metaphor he is back up to 193 as of Dec. 4. used was that training would change Billhimer’s predecessor, Joseph someone from an egg to a tennis ball. Coronato, had said it was eye-open- If you hit the ground, you need to be ing. His first year as prosecutor was (Epidemic - See Page 4) 2013, just as Ocean County became vulnerable to the one-two punch of heroin and fentanyl. He saw 10 overdoses in seven days. That’s when he knew he needed a plan to combat the epidemic with more than enforcement. There needed to be more education and treatment for addicts. Billhimer told the mayors and government officials assembled at the Ocean County Mayors’ Association meeting that he would be continuing Coro- Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer
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