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MICROMEDIA PUBLICATIONS, INC.
THE TOMS RIVER
Vol. 12 - No. 28
Your Weekly Hometown Newspaper | Serving All of Toms River Township
Annual Halloween Parade Spooks Up Fun In Town
–Photos by Catherine Galioto TOMS RIVER – One of the nation’s largest family-oriented Halloween parades again stepped off down Main Street in Toms River on Halloween night. Featuring marching bands, scout troops, civic organizations, decorated cars and floats and several dozen judged costume categories, the well-attended parade route was lined three or four people deep in parts to watch the spook iness and Halloween spirit. For more photos, see our website micromediapubs.com.
Inside This Week’s Edition
Business Directory ........................... 28 Classifieds ........................................ 27 Community News ......................... 9-16 Dear Joel ..........................................31 Dear Pharmacist .............................. 21 Dr. Izzy’s Sound News .................... 20 Fun Page ......................................... 26 Inside The Law ................................. 30 Letters to the Editor ............................ 8 Wolfgang ......................................... 35 WWW.MICROMEDIAPUBS.COM
November 5, 2016
SANDY RECOVERY GROUP “FORGOTTEN” BY FUNDING
By Lois Rogers TOMS RIVER – How long is too long? With the fourth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy passed, that’s the question on the minds of a lot of people in Ocean County where the length of the ongoing recovery effort holds hundreds, if not thousands of residents, in its thrall. In Toms River alone, some 10,000 homes were impacted in various degrees, by the storm. Scores of residents are among those state-wide still struggling to recover from Sandy which left a trail of devastation from the ocean to the bay to the backwaters. Last week, after working since shortly after the storm struck to help people get back home, Sue Marticek, Bayville, executive director of the Ocean County Long-Term Recovery Group, based in Toms River, expressed concerns that “we are at a point where Sandy is forgotten,” by funding sources. As of last week, she said the organization – “the last standing long term recovery group” – was in serious need of funding for the New Year. “To be honest,” she said, “we have many fishing lines out there and we (Recovery - See Page 5)
A Look At How Toms River Voted In Past Presidential Races
By J. Mark Mutter TOMS RIVER – November 8 is Election Day. Here’s how the Township has voted in past Presidential elections. 1916: One hundred years ago, President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, ran for re-election. The former New Jersey Governor and former President of the then
Princeton College was challenged by the sitting Chief Justice of the United States, Charles Evans Hughes, a Republican. Even though Wilson was from New Jersey, Hughes handily won the State by a 54 to 43 percent margin carrying 17 of the 21 counties. Here in the then Dover Township, Hughes defeated Wilson by a landslide 410
to 176 votes or 70 to 30 percent. The Lincoln Elections Both times when Abraham Lincoln ran for President, New Jersey was the only Northern state that did not support him. In 1860, a “Fusion ticket” of Northern and Southern opponents defeated the
HISTORY
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