Vol. 24 - No. 34
In This Week’s Edition
THE BERKELEY
TIMES
FOR BREAKING NEWS
JERSEYSHOREONLINE.COM | February 2, 2019
Your FREE Weekly Hometown Newspaper For Bayville, Berkeley, Beachwood, Pine Beach, Ocean Gate and South Toms River
Beachwood Mall Redevelopment Could Break Ground In 2019 Government Page 7.
Community News!
Beachwood Wants Your Vote For New Athletic Equipment
By Chris Lundy BEACHWOOD – Beachwood wants your vote for improvements to the school there, but unlike the recent referendum, these improvements would come from a grant. Danimals, the kids brand of yogurt sold by Dannon, is offering a $25,000 grant for physical education equipment. All Beachwood has to do is muster enough votes to win it, Beachwood Elementary principal Kim Muir said.
Don’t miss what’s happening in your town.
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Dr. Izzy’s Sound News
Restaurants Can Be Really Noisy
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(Vote - See Page 4)
Dear Pharmacist
Annual Homeless Count Conducted
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Inside The Law Page 19.
Fun Page Page 20.
Business Directory Page 21.
Classifieds Page 22.
Horoscope Page 27.
–Photo by Patricia A. Miller Residents and commuters are eager to see something come of the abandoned Beachwood Mall site. By Patricia A. Miller BERKELEY – Tired of looking at the battered parking lot where the Beachwood Mall used to be? If all goes well, it’s possible that you may not have to for much longer. Constr uction on new stores could begin later this year, if the redevelopers can find qualified, interested companies that want to do business on the Route 9 South site in Bayville, township engineer James M. Oris said. “The redeveloper has been actively looking for suitable tenants for Berkeley and the right fit for the site,” he said. “The overall plan is that the front portion would the first phase of the redevelopment of the Town Center area.” The new center would be a mix
of retail and residential use. But online companies like Amazon and others have taken “a chunk” out of the retail “bricks and sticks” market, which makes it harder to attract businesses, he said.
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Township officials have “one hundred percent” confidence that the redevelopers - M and M Realty and Lennar Corporation - will be able to find the right mix for Berkeley, (Mall - See Page 4)
–Photo by Chris Lundy Supplies were available for people at the BEAT Center who were coming in for various services. By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – “Where did you sleep last night?” A simple question for most of us. Not so simple for the small portion of the population that is out of the public eye most of the time: the homeless. This was the question asked to people coming in to the annual point-in-time (Homeless - See Page 5)
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