TheTOMS RIVER Times Vol. 16 - No. 31
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─Photo donated to Toms River Times The central gazebo fell, causing the entire building to be unsafe. By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – The central gazebo overlooking the Toms River at Huddy Park was knocked down due to weather, and will be replaced by spring, officials said. Anyone driving over the bridge, or passing th rough dow ntow n, likely saw the central gazebo in tatters. It had become such a mainstay that seeing it dam-
aged was surprising and distressing. The culprit appears to be the weather. It wasn’t a recent storm. Rather, it was a huge windstorm on August 3 that might have started the process for it to eventually fall. A security guard was the first person to notice it, Township Engineer Rober t Cha n k alia n said. One of the beams had become twisted,
pre su m ably by t he wind. Following up on the tip, Chankalian inspected it with someone from the insurance company. If you weren’t close to it, you might not have noticed it. There had been a boat show just before that, so the township scrolled through photos of the event online. In those photos, the gazebo’s beams were still in
good shape. So, they surmised that it must have happened in that storm. The gazebo had been off limits to the public after the damage had been noticed, he said. This was unfortunate because a lot of people like to get wedding photos there. It’s a landmark for the downtown area. T he n , t he ce nt e r (Gazebo - See Page 2)
County Workers Having COVID Leads To Questions About Election Safety
By Chris Lundy T OM S R I V E R – More than a doze n c ou nt y worke r s t e s t e d p o sit ive for COV I D -19, and off icials said that the safety of the employees have been the utmost priority. Patch.com reported
that a person working for the Board of Elections tested positive. More than 250 county employees sought testing. From that, 16 of them tested positive. However, there is not necessarily a direct link from these 16 to the initial person
who tested positive. Ocean County Administrator Carl Block told The Patch t h a t t he 16 p e o ple were from different depar tments, and not all of them were counting votes. Those who tested positive had to quarantine.
D u r i ng a nor m al election, a voter would go up to a poll worker, take a ticket, and hand the ticket to another p ol l worke r. T he n , they would touch the voting booth. This time, polls were only open for those with disabilities and
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for p e ople t o d rop off ballots that were a l r e a d y f i l le d out . But scores of people had to come together to count the mail-in votes. It ’s h a r d t o s a y whether one way is safer t ha n a not her, (County - See Page 4)
─Photo by Chris Lundy Some children enjoyed a hike around Cattus Island in Toms River on an unseasonably warm fall day. By Alyssa Riccardi NEW JERSEY – At the beginning of November, many towns across the state enjoyed some not-so-much fall weather. Sweater weather was nowhere to be seen as the state had a consecutive six days in a row of warm weather reaching 70 degrees or higher. This odd warm weather in the month of November has set records, with this weather being unusual during this time for the state of New Jersey. Rutgers University - New Brunswick Climatologist David A. Robinson discussed how this weather is uncommon for the state. “Temperatures around many parts of the state were 70 degrees or higher. Six consecutive days in November with temperatures above 70, and mind you temperatures this time of the year should be in the mid to upper 50s,” Robinson stated. “Four days of consecutive record highs are also unusual, it’s extremely unusual for a weather station with 110 years of records.” Robinson, who is a New Jersey State Climatologist and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography in the School of Arts and Sciences, further explained why New Jersey has been having contrasting weather this year. “We’ve had a very active weather pattern across the United States for the last month and sometimes the system gets into overdrive or high gear. With that you get a lot of extremes, and the extremes aren’t necessarily just in New Jersey, or the Mid-Atlantic, you find them from coast to coast,” he said. “Warm air where warm air shouldn’t be, cold (Warm - See Page 2)
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