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Review SBB’s Many Accomplishments in the Last Year Continue Reading

Review SBB’s Many Accomplishments in the Last Year

Save Barnegat Bay has been very most active year ever. Have a look at our successes from Bay Head to Little Egg Harbor. Summer 2003 Dear Save Barnegat Bay Supporter, Save Barnegat has been hard at work over the last year. We need your continued financial support for 2003 in order to carry on our […]

Observer Editorial on 539 Sewer Continue Reading

Observer Editorial on 539 Sewer

Officials wise to dump sewer-line Published in the Ocean County Observer 10/22/02 Little Egg Harbor Township officials wisely have abandoned their plan to run a sewer line from Tuckerton to the Garden State Parkway so more development could take place along Route 539. The plan was widely seen as yet another effort to advance sprawl […]

Letter to Tuckerton Residents Continue Reading

Letter to Tuckerton Residents

Why and how Tuckerton residents should oppose the sewer extension from Frog Pond Road to the Garden State Parkway. (SEE MAP) October 2002 Re: Stopping the sewer extension out Route 539 to the Parkway. Dear Tuckerton Resident, The Tuckerton Borough Council has it within its power to prevent the extension of the sanitary sewer out […]

Seaside Heights Building Height Issue Continue Reading

Seaside Heights Building Height Issue

On August 6 a large crowd helped convince the Seaside Heights Council not to introduce an ordinance that would have increased the allowed building height in the northern part of town. The public will have to be vigilant in case the developer persists. SEASIDE HEIGTS SEVEN-STORY CONDO PROPOSAL IS WRONG FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND FOR […]

“Greenbriar at Waretown” Development Threat Continue Reading

“Greenbriar at Waretown” Development Threat

The 1500 unit “Greenbriar at Waretown” development proposal threatens to permanently diminish the township’s environment and quality of life. Re: A massive development proposal in environmentally sensitive woods in Waretown. Dear Waretown Resident, US Home, Inc., has aapplied to build a 1496 residential unit retirement community with a golf course and a commercial development in […]

URGENT Waretown Hearing Continue Reading

URGENT Waretown Hearing

On Wednesday, May 16, @ 1 PM at the Municipal Building the future of the entirety of Waretown east of the Parkway is at stake. Public support is urgently needed. Merce Ridgway comments LAST CHANCE TO CONSERVE DISAPPEARING NATURE IN WARETOWN Wednesday, May 16, is a decisive date in determining the future of Waretown. That’s […]

Directions to Crystal Point Yacht Club Continue Reading

Directions to Crystal Point Yacht Club

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 […]

Dery Bennett – A great leader gone Continue Reading

Dery Bennett – A great leader gone

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, […]

Cleavers Continue Reading

Cleavers

The Rubiaceae family commonly called the Madder or Bedstraw family consists of 630 genera and 10,400 species of shrubs, lianas, trees and a few herbs.  The family provides us with coffee (Coffea), quinine (Cinchona), ipecacuanha (Cephaelis), yohimbine (Pausinystalia), dyes, timber and ornamental shrubs (Gardenia, for example). Cleavers can be found on rich , moist, usually shaded ground of woods […]

Wild Madder Continue Reading

Wild Madder

The Rubiaceae family commonly called the Madder or Bedstraw family consists of 630 genera and 10,400 species of shrubs, lianas, trees and a few herbs.  The family provides us with coffee (Coffea), quinine (Cinchona), ipecacuanha (Cephaelis), yohimbine (Pausinystalia), dyes, timber and ornamental shrubs (Gardenia, for example). The generic name Galium is from the Greek gala which mean “milk” and refers the property of […]