Vol. 24 - No. 38
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–Photos by Chris Lundy (Above) The Supervised Transitional Living Program is housed in a building that looks much like a home. (Left) The back yard has basketball and other activities.
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By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – The front of the house looks like a very nice, very large two-story home. It just happens to have a lot of parking spaces and another office building behind it. Inside, you’ll find a large, open dining room and kitchen with multiple appliances. A living room area had holiday decorations up at the time. The bedrooms are all upstairs. Everything is like a house, just bigger. This was done by design. It’s meant to feel like a home. Even the lack of signs on the property let it fit in with
the neighborhood. This is Ocean’s Harbor House, a place for youth who are homeless or in crisis. Despite the name, they also serve Monmouth County. This particular building houses the Supervised Transitional Living Program. It is meant to provide security and structure for youth ages 16-21, as they learn the skills and get employment to become independent adults. There’s another building, elsewhere in Toms River, for children as young as 10. This location is meant to provide shelter while an appropriate placement is found. In both places, the youths and their
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January 27, 5, 2019 || October 2018
School Re-opening After Mold
By Jennifer Peacock LAKEHURST – The good news was shared on the school district’s website and a text alert midafternoon just before the long winter break: students and staff of Lakehurst Elementary School will be back in their own classrooms after the New Year. Lakehurst Elementary School administrators said in a Dec. 21 letter that the school would reopen Jan. 7. The Board of Education approved a change to its school calendar to allow Lakehurst students to extend winter break through Friday, Jan. 4. “We are excited to announce that the Lakehurst Elementary School will reopen following the New Year,” Superintendent Loren Fuhring, Assistant Superintendent Dr. Clifford Barneman, and Business Administrator Barry Parliman said in the Dec. 21 statement. The school has been closed since the summer due to mold issues. The Lakehurst Board of Education, with Manchester schools’ Superintendent David Trethaway, held a meeting Aug. 29 to discuss the findings in the school as well as the agreed-upon schedule for Lakehurst students using Manchester school classrooms. (School - See Page 8)
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By Jennifer Peacock MANCHESTER – Nobody expected a Superstorm Sandy. Power was out for days after the largest-by-diameter Atlantic hurricane on record storm slammed into New Jersey and New York Oct. 29, 2012. And while the
focus has rightly been on those shore towns that, even six years later, are still rebuilding, municipalities inland had their own lessons to learn. Before Superstorm Sandy, the only emergency ser vices in (Squads - See Page 15)
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