The BERKELEY Times Vol. 26 - No. 4
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Superstorm Sandy did major damage to the shore area. By Patricia A. Miller OCEAN COUNTY The ominous weather reports before Hurricane Sandy hit just before Halloween in October 2012 were not anything you’d want to hear. Neither were the police officers driving down our street warning us to leave before noon the following Monday. We had to sign paperwork that Friday night acknowledging that if we
did not leave, the township was not responsible for anything that happened to us or to our home. We signed. We had never been ordered to leave our Bayville neighborhood before. We left. In the end, we couldn’t return home for seven months, until the house was repaired. Sandy was within 50 miles of the New Jersey coast before it hit in Brigantine as an extratropical
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cyclone. The storm pep- ticularly on Long Beach pered the Jersey Shore Island and the Barnegat with hurricane-force Peninsula, where the winds, record low pres- Seaside Heights boardsure, and a huge storm walk collapses into the surge along the coast. ocean.” “The storm becomes the Sandy took the most worst hurricane to affect lives, compared to a the state on record, kill- storm in August 1806 ing 37 and causing nearly storm, which killed 21 $30 billion in damages,” residents. Governor Chris Christie according to the National Oceanic and Atmo- said the losses caused by spheric Administration Sandy were “going to be (NOAA). “Widespread almost incalculable...The devastation is noted, par- (Hurricanes - See Page 4)
Push For Homeless Shelter Continues
By Chris Lundy T OM S R I V E R – A local councilman is renewing his plea to have a homeless shelter built in Ocean County. Currently, the county places the homeless in temporar y housing. This solves the shor t ter m problem of shelter, but not the
root cause of homelessness, Councilman Te r r a nce Tu r nba ch said. While in these motels, they continue to have access to d r ugs a nd alcohol; any behavioral issues are not checked. “If we do not address the underlying issues causing an individual to be homeless, we
are akin to hamsters running on a wheel. It is time to admit that providing money for people to stay in motels is not a plan that will meaningfully address chronic homelessness,” he said. Toms River opened Riverwood Park Recr e a t io n C e nt e r of f Whitesville Road for
C o d e Bl u e d u r i n g nights in the winter. This is a statewide regulation that opens shelters when the temperature reaches freezing. It is run by the nonprofit Just Believe, Inc. According to their figures, there we r e 193 d i f fe r e nt people who stayed in the Toms River shelter
overnight last winter. During the winter of 2018-2019, that number was 178. These figures do not include those who stayed in other places that were open for Code Blue. Based on these numbers alone, Turnbach said the county’s plan is not working.
(Homeless - See Page 7)
July 11, 2020
Town Backs Councilman For Land Preservation Board
By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – Local residents supported Councilman John Bacchione for a spot on the Ocean County Natural Lands Trust Advisory Committee, a volunteer group that oversees open space purchases. The purchases are made with an open space tax on all county property owners. The committee helps make recommendations to the county on what land to purchase. At recent Berkeley Township Council meetings, Councilman Bacchione stated that he was not reappointed to the board, and had never heard a reason why. Instead, he had been replaced by Jackson Councilman Martin Flemming. Bacchione spoke at a recent meeting of the Ocean County Freeholders. He asked for a reason but did not receive one. He also noted that in a previous meeting, he had commented about this issue and his comments weren’t in the meeting minutes. When he questioned the Freeholders, he asked why Berkeley Township was not appointed to the board, not specifically himself. The argument is that Berkeley should have representation there. Berkeley has the second largest amount of land that can be purchased for open space and should have a voice in what gets purchased. He had supporters there, such as influential former Lacey Mayor John Parker. Parker said Bacchione was an appointment of John Bartlett, who passed away in office. The National Lands Trust was a favorite project of Bartlett’s. “He’s tough. He’s a fighter. For the life of me, I can’t understand any of you Freeholders, why you’d want to battle Berkeley Township,” Parker said. He also questioned why the committee would have two members from Jackson and none from Berkeley. Some people speaking on Bacchione’s behalf made veiled threats that the support for the Freeholders could be taken away if Bacchione is not reinstated. Freeholder Virginia Haines, who is the liaison to the National Lands Trust Fund, said that Bacchione is still sitting on the Workforce Development (Town - See Page 16)
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