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Vol. 21 - No. 37
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Building Dunes With Hundreds Of Trees
February 20, 2016
Tethering Ordinance Takes Hold In Berkeley
By Catherine Galioto BERKELEY – New rules on how to shelter and tether your dog will better protect against animal cruelty, said supporters advocating for the ordinance. Berkeley Township approved its amendments to its animal control ordinance, voting last month, after animal rights advocates contacted the township urging it to protect animals from being left outside for long hours in extreme temperatures. Besides limiting the amount of time an animal can be tethered over a 24-hour period, it also outlines what kind of tether can be used and mandates provisions for adequate food, water and shelter. Though it was under consideration last year, the ordinance was being reviewed by the council’s legislative committee and never made it to a final vote, which lead to supporters such as Louise O’Brien and (Tethering - See Page 12)
–Photo courtesy Shifting Sands Volunteers help line up Christmas trees on Midway Beach, part of efforts to strengthen the dune system there. By Catherine Galioto Underneath the gentle slope of a mountainous dune is a holiday memory. So many Christmas trees, collected after being discarded each holiday, end up as a way to build dunes. Hundreds of those trees came to Midway Beach, and a recently formed nonprofit is helping to coordinate it all, to help restore the dunes. Shifting Sands, based out of Seaside Park, is the nonprofit,
with Dominick Solazzo as its director. Solazzo led volunteers and organizers to restore the dunes of Midway Beach, where a truck of recycled trees from Secaucus will help collect the sand the wind pushes around, and this will help shape stronger dunes over the years. The truck showed up earlier this month, as did dozens of volunteers, who also installed dune fencing for about 1,000 feet (Dunes - See Page 4)
Housing Recovery Centers Consolidate To Freehold NEW JERSEY – With 99 percent of all Sandy-impacted homeowners in the Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Elevat ion, a nd Mit igat ion (RREM) Program now with signed grant agreements and more than 2,650 homes rebuilt through the program, the New Jersey Department of Commu-
nity Affairs announced that it is consolidating its existing Housing Recover y Centers ( H RCs) i nto t wo reg ional HRCs in Freehold, Monmouth County, and Newark, Essex County, as of May 1. Until then, recovery centers still in operation are Ocean County, 750 Vassar Ave. Suite 1 in Lake-
wood; and Atlantic County, 500 Scarborough Drive Suite 1 in Egg Harbor Township. The consolidation will allow the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) to focus more of its recovery resources on construction and project completion, which are the predominant needs of homeowners in
the RREM Program and LMI Homeowners Rebuilding Program, officials said. According to the DCA, fewer than 50 homeowners in the LMI Program have yet to sign a grant agreement and 99 percent of all homeowners in the program will have entered the (Housing - See Page 5)
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County Names Roads Slated For Paving Soon
OCEAN COUNTY – Portions of several major roads in Ocean County are expected to get improvements under the county’s first road overlay contract of 2016. They include portions of Bennetts Mills Road, Burnt Tavern Road, Cedar Bridge, and Bay Avenue (Route 571). “As part of our annual road overlay program, we will be starting work shortly on safety improvements including stormwater drainage work, new paving and reconstruction on several roads throughout Ocean County,” said Ocean County Freeholder Director John P. Kelly, director of Law and Public Safety. “All totaled we will be repairing more than five miles of roadway under this first contract.” (Paving - See Page 5)