LAVALLETTE—On Monday, May 20th, Governor Chris Christie made an appearance at the beachfront here to announce that every boardwalk on the shore would be open for Memorial Day weekend, appearing alongside Mayor Walter G. LaCicero and several other borough officials. Those gathered then observed Councilwoman Joanne Filippine hammer one of the final nails into the [...]
Open House this coming weekend at the Ocean Gate Yacht Club, one of our special content partners here at the Ocean Signal!
TOMS RIVER – Dozens of area sailors took to the waters of the Toms River mid-day Sunday, racing in two ongoing one design competitions for E-Scows and Flying Scots. Below is a selection of photos from those races, taken by Erik Weber for the Ocean Signal. The Toms River Yacht Club Spring Series will continue [...]
The following was submitted by Donna Bahrle with the Central Regional School District in Berkeley Township. BERKELEY – Central Regional TV Productions students won county and state contests and film festival awards for their video productions surrounding the events of Hurricane Sandy. Senior Austin Steinbrick recently took the award for Best Documentary in the Ocean [...]
OCEAN GATE Community Calendar Council Meeting The Mayor and Council will hold their next meeting on Wednesday, May 8th at 1 pm. Meetings are held in the main council room at the municipal building and are open to the public. From time to time, a portion of the meetings may be closed to [...]
The Central Regional Education Association and the Central Regional Foundation will be co-sponsoring a “Jeans Day” fundraiser (staff will make donations in order to wear jeans to work) in each school for the Thinking of You Thursdays lunch fund, which will provide the entire staff of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with a [...]
The following was received by the Central Regional School District. BERKELEY TOWNSHIP -The Central Regional High School Guidance Department has incorporated the robust, interactive college search engine offered by College Board called “BigFuture” as a link on our high school guidance webpage to assist students and families with their college decision-making process. College Board is [...]
TRENTON–School report cards are out. Find out how your school performed in the annual assessment. Beginning with School Year 2011-2012, the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) has significantly revised the annual school report cards, required under both federal and state legislation. The new School Performance Reports are designed to enhance both educator and stakeholder engagement [...]
by Erik Weber BEACHWOOD – When Hurricane Sandy served a direct blow to our area on October 29th and 30th, the barrier island and eastern bay communities were severely impacted, but its effects were also felt farther upriver in this community on the southern bank of the Toms River. On the morning of October 30th, [...]
In the early morning hours of October 30th, 2012 things went somewhere I’d never been before. Sandy was already upon us, evacuations had been ordered 48 hours prior, and yet some decided to stick it out. Water was coming into the tiny little Borough of Ocean Gate – only a half square mile in [...]