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Vol. 22 - No. 19 Your FREE Weekly Hometown Newspaper | Serving Bayville, Berkeley, Beachwood, Pine Beach, Ocean Gate and South Toms River
Mi�ed Feelin�s As Sandy’s Fo�rth Anni�ersary Nears
October 15, 2016
When Is Trick Or Treating For Berkeley?
By Catherine Galioto BERKELEY – It’s one of the most awaited answers of the year: what day is trick or treating? An informal decision at the last council meeting established Berkeley will trick or treat on Halloween, October 31. Towns around Toms River are often faced with whether to stick with moving trick or treating to the day before the Toms River parade, or keep it on Halloween. Berkeley Mayor Carmen Amato said the township isn’t distinctly involved in the parade. “Luckily it’s just not something we are in charge of, when the parade is,” Amato said, noting the large‑scale nature of the Toms River event, billed as one of the largest family‑oriented Halloween parades in the country. This would be the second year in a row that Berkeley has used October 31 for trick or treating. Berkeley is also hosting a trunk or treat event, that is, where decorated vehicles (Trick Or Treating - See Page 5)
–Photos by Catherine Galioto The signs of rebuilding and destruction are often side by side in areas of Berkeley hard hit by Superstorm Sandy. The fourth anniversary of the devastation is this month. Above, Good Luck Point recently. By Catherine Galioto BERKELEY – It’s a mix of fatigue and hope, red tape and work, stagnation and progress. Officials described a gamut
of feelings, as the area eyes up the fourth anniversary of Super‑ storm Sandy this month. There’s been a tremendous amount of rebuilding and prog‑
ress, but Mayor Carmen Amato said there is still work to do, and the scars of the storm still look like fresh wounds in some areas of Berkeley.
One of them is Good Luck Point, where several boarded‑up homes are missing siding, or parts of their structure, just as (Anniversary - See Page 18)
Another Town Weighs In On Cease-And-Desist For Canvassing
By Jennifer Peacock OCEAN COUNTY – Berkeley Township passed an ordinance in December that would allow it to create cease‑and‑desist zones to block aggressive real estate and other canvassers in residential neighborhoods. Another township is weighing in on these actions, whether they could stand a test in court, and how to protect residents from quality‑of‑life issues.
In addition to Berkeley, Toms River has a similar ordinance, and used it to carve out a cease‑and‑desist zone in North Dover, an area where residents complained of multiple issues related to aggressive real estate canvassing. The issue came before Jackson Township again recently, when a resident there brought the Berkeley ordinance to the Jackson (Canvassing - See Page 6)
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Pedestrian Patrols At Frederick, Route 9
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By Catherine Galioto wo local traffic patrols hope to counter what police said have been dangerous issues. In one initiative, at Frederick Drive and Route 9, that pedestrian trying to cross the street could be an undercover police officer. In a repeat of an enforcement detail last year, Berkeley township again secured a grant to educate on and enforce pedestrian crosswalk laws, targeting that intersection (Pedestrian - See Page 18)