IN HISTORY:

film, showcasing local talent, subjects and people. The latest event highlighted music by two musical groups, Johnny Nameless and (Artists - See Page 4)

Presidential Elections Of The 20 th Century

By J. Mark Mutter

In last month’s column of This Month In History, it was reported that our town’s public records were completely re-organized, beginning in 2006, into a singular computerized database where documents spanning several centuries are now warehoused in a state of the art Records Center.

They’re old records kept not just for the sake of keeping old records. Public records are the people’s records and they are invaluable for everyday needs - building, environmental, and land use records, and more.

As luck would have it, as part of our organization of 10,000-plus containers of documents, we stumbled upon a lot of town history, too. With Presidents’ Day coming up, here’s part two of the story of how old lost and forgotten election records and presidential history came together in Toms River.

An Old Dirty Basement

During the course of years of work in finding, indexing, and organizing literally hundreds of thousands of separate files in old cardboard boxes that seemed to be - and were - everywhere, we were led to the basement of

Town Hall. The building is an old residence in our downtown village built in 1902 and was purchased by the then Township Committee in 1949 to house the municipal government as our town was rapidly growing in the middle of the last century.

(History - See Page 6) natural resource damages.

The mayors are asking for a number of concessions, including the creation of a depository at the Ocean County library system (hard copy and digital) for documents about the condition of the site, with all permits relating to discharges, reports of work completed on landfills, and monitoring info regarding the Toms River and nearby wetlands.

They also want BASF to publish monitoring

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Sadness And Anger At Vigil Held For Adriana Kuch

By Chris Lundy BERKELEY – A vigil in memory of Adriana

Kuch was attended by dozens of people who want to make sure what

─Photo courtesy Kuch family Adriana Kuch passed away February 3. happened to her never happens to anyone else. Adriana, 14, committed suicide after being attacked in school and (Adriana - See Page 5)