Tuckerton News

While rain delayed the Pinelands Regional High School graduation, seniors made good use of the time to talk, hug and take photographs of each other in their caps and gowns in the halls.

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The Independence Day celebration starts at 7 p.m. July 4 on the Municipal Dock, East Bay Avenue, with a concert by the big band sounds of the Brass Tacks.

Dale Parson shucks as he talks, the clam and oyster shells flying into the air and into a basket or the floor.

State legislators have introduced bills requiring municipal approval of any new solid waste facility, including trash transfer stations.

- George E. Woerner IV, 33, of Tuckerton was arrested June 15 at Center Street and Shenandoah Drive and charged with driving while intoxicated. - Vincent J. Cimino, 50, of Barnegat was arrested June 18 on a contempt warrant from Woodland and turned over to New Jersey State Police in default of $2,000 bail. - Lisa Bazel, 43, of Little Egg Harbor was arrested June 19 on a Little Egg Harbor theft warrant and taken to Ocean County Jail in default of $5,000 bail. - Robert E. Mickens Jr., 36, of Little Egg Harbor was arrested June 20 on an Atlantic County Superior Court no-bail warrant and turned over to that county's Sheriff's Department. - Rebecca Mary Woldanski, 22, of West Creek was arrested June 16 and charged with driving while intoxicated and other motor vehicle violations. - Stephan Snigier, 33, of Brick was arrested June 8 and charged with driving while intoxicated. - Leonard Lewis Sofield Jr., 26, of Tuckerton was arrested June 8 on an Ocean County Sheriff's Department warrant. - Nunes Migule Bukula, 30, of Margate was arrested June 6 and charged with disorderly conduct outside Doyles Pour House. - William H. Chucta, 21, of Little Egg Harbor Township was arrested June 4 and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

People are so used to being rained on these days, that nothing stopped them from traveling to the Tuckerton Seaport Saturday for the annual Seafood and Music Festival.

Donna Mayeaux said she will never get over her brother's death. "People told me, "Get over it,' " Mayeaux said Saturday at a ceremony to honor her brother Paul M. Johnson Jr., who was beheaded in 2004 after being taken hostage by militants linked to al-Qaeda. "We will never get over it." On Saturday, members of the William J. Stanton Veterans of ...

Wise women brought gold jewelry they not longer wore or wanted - scraps of chains, earrings, rings and and necklaces - to a library association fundraiser and turned them into money.

LITTLE EGG HARBOR - A memorial service in memory of Paul M. Johnson Jr. of West Creek will take place at 10 a.m. June 20.

Admit it. You've ignored Tuckerton Seaport for way too long. Saturday is the day to visit one of the Shore's top, if overlooked, attractions.

The Township Committee has gone on record supporting the Pine Barrens Byway Corridor Management Plan, which would bring economic benefit to 16 towns, including Tuckerton and both sides of Little Egg Harbor.

It should be a law that all state agencies, municipal agencies and schools have a human answer the phone, not a machine recording.

TUCKERTON - The state Department of Environmental Protection has issued a notice of violation to the borough for construction of a second gazebo at South Green Street Park without a Coastal Area Facilities Review Act permit.

Village Elementary School fourth-grade pupils are hoping their letters tucked into a miniature glider will travel across the Atlantic Ocean and reach someone in Spain.

Mystic Island Flotilla 7-7 of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will meet at 7 p.m. June 12 at the Senior Center on Radio Road in Little Egg Harbor.

Comics, action figures, graphic novels, DVDs and plenty of comics could be found at the latest Atomicon comic book exposition held Sunday in Manahawkin.

Students from five Southern Ocean County school districts have collected approximately 5,100 foot items for the newly formed Greater Tuckerton Ministeral Food Pantry.

The founding members of the First Presbyterian Church of Tuckerton obviously couldn't foresee the changes in their congregation 150 years in the future.

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