Category: Recent News

Silent Art & Gift Auction: Gifts Galore !! – PART I

posted on: September 14, 2000

YOU MISSED IT! Here’s some of the Fabulous Stuff you could have won at SBB’s Second Annual Silent Art & Gift Auction at Crystal Point Yacht Club on Thurs, Sept 23. But you and your friends are invited again next year! A big THANK YOU to those generous folks who did attend! We hope you […]

Directions to Crystal Point Yacht Club

posted on: September 2, 2000

Directions to Crystal Point Yacht Club 3900 River Road Point Pleasant, NJ 08742 732-295-7000 (Crystal Point Yacht Club was formerly Kings Grant Inn.) From the South Take Garden State Parkway to Exit 90 – turn right at end of the ramp onto Chambersbridge Road – Go straight for 2 miles to big intersection – Turn […]

SBB & Others Kickoff Pay to Play Campaign

posted on: May 11, 2000

On May 10 the Ocean County Money & Politics Action Group, with which SBB is active, kicked off Dover and Manchester Township Pay to Play Public Contracting Reform Initiative & Referendum drives. This is an environmental issue if there ever was one. – What is Pay to Play? – Read the prepared statement of the […]

Alert: Land Acquisition Funding

posted on: January 21, 2000

Write Senator Corzine to urge more federal acquisition funding to expand the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. Re: Please write Senator Corzine requesting maximum federal funding to expand the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. March 2002 Dear Save Barnegat Bay Supporter, Save Barnegat Bay needs you to take ten minutes to write a letter to […]

Dery Bennett – A great leader gone

posted on: January 15, 2000

Dery Bennett, former Executive Director of the American Littoral Society, mentor to a generation of environmentalists, and inspirational leader of the coastal environmental movement on the New Jersey Shore has died. D. W. Bennett, known to all as “Dery”, 1930 – 2009 We meet few persons in life of whom we know in their presence, […]

Robert Jahn 1946-2009

posted on: January 14, 2000

Robert Jahn of South Mantoloking, renowned historian of Barnegat Bay, died November 17, 2009 at Ocean Medical Center in Brick Township. He was 62 years old. Mr. Jahn will be best remembered for his book Down Barnegat Bay, A Nor’easter Midnight Reader, a cultural history of Barnegat Bay. First published in 1980, the work is […]

In Memoriam: Evan R. Spalt, 1910-2000

posted on: January 14, 2000

Remarks from Save Barnegat Newsletter, Summer 2000 Save Barnegat Bay mourns the passing of a leader and a true friend, Evan R. Spalt, who was an integral part of our creation and functioning over the course of fifteen years. Starting in 1985, Evan spearheaded our successful fight against the proposed “Pelican Cove” condominium and marina […]

In Memoriam: William Dodsworth deCamp, 1917 – 2005

posted on: January 12, 2000

A Eulogy for William Dodsworth deCamp delivered by his son, January 20, 2005. Remarks in Memory of William Dodsworth de Camp On behalf of everyone in our extended family, I thank each of you for coming here. Bill loved people. He was the most gregarious person I ever knew. During his whole life, and especially […]

Sea change needed in attitude about the environment

posted on: January 1, 1970

Britta Wenzel,executive director of Save Barnegat Bay, said her organization is lobbying Gov. Chris Christie’s administration to declare the bay “impaired” under the federal Clean Water Act, which would trigger new regulations and action. Read More…