Vol. 16 - No. 30
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By Chris Lundy TOMS R IVER – Off icials announced that they received a grant for $5.6 million that they will use to raise Herfl icker Boulevard, which they say will help bring redevelopment downtown. The $5,660,000 Better Utilizing Investments to Lever age Development (BUILD) Transportation Grant came from the United States Department of Transportation. Herf licker needs to be raised and extended to Hig hland Pa rk way, the street where the NJ Transit bus depot is, business administrator Don Guardian said. The bridge itself is static, but the road after –Photo by Chris Lundy that would be raised as it The intersection between Herflicker Boulevard and Irons Street will be heads west. changed. Currently, the road leading through there is more like an industrial been rezoned to allow for thetically pleasing “sense access road. This is an area that the township street-level retail shops of place” that would be recently eyed for new development: be- close to transportation “capitalizing on views of tween the Garden State Parkway and Route and apartments. It would the Toms River and prox9, and south of West Water Street. It had be designed to be an aes- (Downtown - See Page 6)
| December 22, 2018
Freeholder Bartlett Remembered
By Jennifer Peacock PINE BEACH – The church at the corner of Hillsdale and Huntington avenues started out as a summer church for summer people, pastored by the Philadelphia minister who, among others, felt this tiny then-section of Berkeley Township needed its own house of worship. By the time the Bartlett family moved from Lakewood to Pine Beach in the 1940s, the Pine Beach Chapel had had a fulltime, unpaid local pastor. Protestants and Catholics alike would worship there. For just over a year now, Rev. Glenn Ferguson has pastored this nondenominational congregation. He knew John C. Bartlett Jr. only a little, being his pastor for such a short time. Ferguson and several other church members were able to dig up some tidbits about the Freeholder’s relationship with the Chapel between a Thursday morning phone call and Friday evening deadline. As a child, Bartlett was part of Boy (Bartlett - See Page 2 )
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Toms River Opens Legion Square Village Apartments
Calling All Cats: Sanctuary Offers Shelter By Bob Vosseller JACKSON - Calling all cats…your sanctuary is safe and sound. Sara Cameron, the president of the non-profit organization, Calling All Cats, said she was greatly relieved when she left a recent Board of Adjustment meeting where the board voted unanimously to approve a use variance for the organization’s cat sanctuary on her property. Elena Gable, a professional planner from Red Bank, joined attorney Ken W. Biedznski in representing Cameron during the meeting. The property on 77 East Veterans Highway is in a residential zone. Cameron, a certified animal control officer and animal cruelty officer, offered testimony to what the operation involves. The sanctuary began oper-
–Photos by Bob Vosseller Lisa Vivino of Toms River feeds some of the cats. ating in January 2015 but after some public exposure from a newspaper article, the township took a closer look at the facility and determined a use variance was warranted. (Cats - See Page 8)
By Kimberly Bosco TOMS RIVER – Toms River Township officials cut the ribbon on the Legion Square Village Apartments, a brand new redevelopment project located in Downtown Toms River, on Dec. 14. Located at 245 Main St., the Leg ion Squ a re Village Apa r t ment s hold 55 units: 51 two-bedrooms and 4 one -be d room. T he u n it s come equipped w it h major applia nces, (Legion - See Page 10)
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