Vol. 23 - No. 13
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THE MANCHESTER
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Community News! Don’t miss what’s happening in your town. Pages 8-15.
Ocean County Fair To Mix New And Old Favorites
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By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – The Ocean County Fair remains a place where everyone in Ocean County is welcome to a day or evening out to enjoy some old-fashioned fun. While some of it has changed over the years, it still retains the feel of a neighborhood event of wholesome entertainment, said fair manager Jeff Adams. Volunteers are always hard at work reinvesting in their community. The board putting it together is all volunteers. The ticket gates are run by the Toms River Mariners Marching Band as a fundraiser for them. Explorer youth cadets from the Ocean County Sheriff’s Department and surrounding towns will serve as parking attendants. Inside, it hearkens back to the kind of fairs that you visited as a kid. Boardwalk-style games of chance and skill will fill the midway. The sound of carnival rides – and people on them – echo from the tree line. Lines of community groups and small businesses set up in booths, mixed in with food vendors. It all still has a classic feel to it. “We trace our lineage back to 1947,” Adams said. It was an agriculture day, back then, when farmers would show off their crops that year. It was called the “4-H Achievement and Agricultural Ocean County Field Day.” Held
Proposed Line To Run Through Plumsted, Manchester
–Map courtesy New Jersey Natural Gas This map details the route that the Southern Reliability Pipeline would take. By Chris Lundy High School North, 1245 OCEAN COUNTY – A Old Freehold Road. The public hearing on whether doors will open at 9 a.m. to allow a 30-mile natu- and the hearing is expected ral gas pipeline through to begin at around 9:30 a.m. Manchester and Plumsted New Jersey Natural Gas townships will be held in is proposing this pipeToms River on July 26 at line in order to guarantee the Pine Belt Arena. quality of service for 1 This venue is located on million customers, while (Pipeline - See Page 5) the premises of Toms River
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County To Build $8 Million Garage In Manchester
By Chris Lundy MANCHESTER – A large garage that will consolidate two other county operational buildings will be built on Ridgeway Boulevard, officials said. The Western Facilities Transportation Garage could break ground this year, county administrator Carl Block said. The facility would take the place of two county buildings that are elsewhere. The road department garage is surrounded by municipal buildings near the Jackson Township town hall and cannot expand as it needs to. The transportation department has outgrown the
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garage on Route 9 in Toms River as well. The Manchester property was purchased years ago, he said. The planning for the project started around eight years ago. An ordinance that would appropriate $8 million (fueled by $7.6 million in bonds) to fund the design, permitting, and construction of the building was brought up at the most recent Ocean County Freeholders meeting. However, there were not enough members available to vote to authorize the spending of the money, so the final reading of the ordinance was put off until the July 19 meeting.
Closing The Gap On Foreclosures
By Sara Grillo MANCHESTER – There are fewer foreclosed homes on the township’s register than there were last year, officials said at Manchester Township’s latest council meeting. Mayor Kenneth Palmer shared a positive update on the home foreclosure registry, which requires abandoned homeowners in Manchester to register their unoccupied properties and pay a fee every year on an increasing scale. The longer a property stays vacant, the more (Foreclosures - See Page 10)
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