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THE TOMS RIVER
Vol. 11 - No. 52
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April 23, 2016
Your FREE Weekly Hometown Newspaper | Serving All of Toms River Township
Township Trucks In More Sand For Ortley Beach
Toms River Plans For Municipal Boat Ramp
–Photos by Catherine Galioto The existing marshland, driveway and former basketball court at the end of Garfield Avenue could become the site of a municipal boat ramp in the Gilford Park neighborhood. The site is not far from the private ramp of the Gilford Park Yacht Club being rebuilt. By Catherine Galioto Gilford Park would change that, but the and former basketball court that leads to TOMS RIVER – Despite its many miles town has more than a dozen permits to Dillon’s Creek near its flow into the Toms of waterfront, Toms River does not have a clear first. River, is the township parcel that would be municipal boat ramp. Plans to put one in At the end of Garfield Avenue, a driveway (Boat Ramp - See Page 4)
$1.6M FOR LAND TO BUFFER JET NOISE FROM JOINT-BASE NEIGHBORS
By Daniel Nee OCEAN COUNTY – The County will be the recipient of $1.6 million in federal funds through a reimbursement program designed to encourage land preservation near military installations. Freeholder John C. Bartlett said, overall,
the effort by the board has focused on purchasing property within the five-mile buffer of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst to protect it from encroachment as well as residents’ complaints over jet noise. “The Joint Base needs to be protected and (Noise - See Page 4)
By Catherine Galioto ORTLEY BEACH – The last round of sand to re-enforce the beach came as a result not of the threat of a storm but from a lacking sand bar and the continued friction of exposed pilings meeting the water line in Ortley Beach, officials said. The sand, delivered by Earle Asphalt, was placed between the Lord House and the Golden Gull, with roughly 300 truckloads of sand to build a barrier and reshape the dunes there. The work was done over the April 8 weekend. “This has to do with the lack of a sand bar in that area. The rest of the beaches are in good condition. Until the federal dune replenishment project begins, the Township remains committed to protecting private property and businesses from storms and flooding,” the township said in a statement. Ken Langdon of Ortley Beach again took to the podium at the recent township council meeting to question if there wasn’t another way to address beach conditions. Instead of trucking in approximately $250,000 in sand each time, the township should scarf the beach to collect its sand and enhance the dunes, he said. “A quarter of a million dollars has been spent that does not necessarily have to be spent,” Langdon said. “Why is there such (Sand - See Page 22)
With Jail Population Declining, County Begins Adapting To New Incarceration Policy
By Daniel Nee OCEAN COUNTY – County Assignment Judge Marlene Lynch Ford said the state’s new bail reform law, currently being piloted in three counties, will be New Jersey’s iteration of a trend that is the first real change to the bail system in American criminal
courts in the nation’s history. For the county government, which funds the salaries of corrections officers and administers the jail facility off Hooper Avenue in Toms River, there is the potential for both cost savings and cost increases under the
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