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Town Wide Yard Sale
Saturday, September 25, 2010
(Rain Date September 26)
To Participate
Download application from www.longbeachtownship.com website and mail or drop offapplication and $10.00 fee (includes advertising) to the Municipal Clerk’s Office. Applications also available at the Municipal Building.
The deadline to be included on the directory of locations is Monday, September 20.
The town wide sale will not count as 1 of the 2 sales each property is allowed per year. All addresses will be listed on our web site. In addition, directories can be picked up at the Municipal Building, Chamber of Commerce, Brant Beach Post Office and LBI Foundation of Arts & Sciences.
Any businesses, wishing to have the flyers available for their customers, are welcome to come to the Municipal Clerk’s Office to get them.
If you have questions, please call 609-361-6664 (Leave message for a return call).
Directory will be available before the weekend of the 25th, check back for exact date on the LBT web site:www.longbeachtownship.com
Long Beach Township police warn of ongoing phone and e-mail scams
By DONNA WEAVER, Staff Writer | Wednesday, August 25, 2010 ,Atlantic City Press
LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP — The Long Beach Township Police Department is warning the public of an ongoing problem regarding fraud.
Lt. Anthony Deely said the department has and is currently investigating fraud cases in which the victims are contacted via phone or e-mail.
When individuals are contacted they are asked for personal information and often advise that it is necessary to update their files. The victim provides the information and in doing so compromises their accounts and e-mail security. The persons who obtained this information send out mass e-mails, requesting money. The request references a serious family matter which is completely fabricated, according to Deely. Often the money is requested to be wired out of the country.
Deely said grammatical and spelling errors are prevalent in these communications that are sent via e-mail.
The following are a few of the fraud scenarios this department is investigating
1. Telephone call requesting money be sent due to granddaughter/grandson being locked up abroad.
2. Credit card companies calling to obtain account information with a specific request for the three digit number on the back of the card, indicating that there has been unauthorized use, which is false.
3. E-mails requesting an update on account information — which upon providing it, passwords are changed and locks you out. Then a mass e-mail is sent to your contacts requesting financial assistance and the money be sent via Western Union out of the country.
4. Money available (roughly $1.5 million — dispersed in $9,000 increments) will be sent to you upon providing personal information via the Internet, again involving Western Union.
Attention Taxpayers
If you have not received your tax bill please call the Tax Office (609 361-6647) to receive a new one.
Tax Bills Were Mailed July 23rd
The due date has been extended to August 31st. If you have not received your bill, please contact the Tax Office (609 361-6647) and ask them to print a replacement bill for you.
Third quarter is due August 1st and delinquent after August 31st. Payments received after August 31st will be charged interest back to August 1st.
High Point fire company to get new truck
August 11, 2010, Asbury Park Press, By:Stephanie Loder(Staff Writer)
HARVEY CEDARS — A new $850,000 ladder truck is headed to High Point Volunteer Fire Company Station 51 in December to upgrade firefighting capabilities in this community as well as two neighboring towns.
The truck, a 2010 Crimson with a 110-foot ladder, was purchased through the cooperation between this community, Loveladies and North Beach, Fire Chief Sean Marti said.
The company's present ladder truck has only a 65-foot ladder. The new, larger ladder will help firefighters reach beachfront homes and newer, larger scale dwellings.
Last year, the fire company responded to 109 fire runs, the chief said.
Marti said many were "CO alarms" (Carbon Monoxide) that had gone off.
"That was the most calls we've had over any previous year," Marti said.
The chief also said many of those calls were to large homes, many of them as large as 13,000 square feet and taller than the reach of the 65-foot ladder.
The new truck is expected to be completed at the end of the year in South Dakota and firefighters will go out to inspect the vehicle in December. They will then have it delivered here.
Crimson Fire Inc., a Spartan Company, is known for its engineering of new firetrucks for big cities, Chigago among them.
Marti said firefighters will train extensively on the new vehicle when it arrives, taking four to five days to get to know how the new ladder operates.
The fire company currently has a 1989 Sutphen ladder, a 1999 Spartan Engine and a 2004 Ford Excursion, which is the command vehicle as well as reserve apparatus.
The 1989 Sutphen has a 65-foot elevated platform and carries 1,000 gallons of water with a 1,500 gallon-per-minute pump. Primarily used as a pumper, this truck is considered a Quint, or multi-use piece, because it has the capability of producing an elevated Master Stream during heavy fire loads to protect exposures.
The 1999 Spartan pumper holds 1,000 gallons of water and has a 1,500 gallon-per-minute pump. With a 20-foot raised roof, 8-man cab and 30 gallon foam tank, the pumper is the second vehicle out of the station.
The third vehicle on the line at the firehouse — and the oldest working truck — is a 1959 Mack pumper carrying 750 gallons with a 750 gallon-per-minute pump. The truck is used only as a backup.
A 1963 Dodge Power Wagon 4x4 carries spare equipment and is used for lighting support on all nighttime fires, storm evacuations and beach rescue calls.
Marti, who has been an active volunteer member for 24 years, has been chief for five. He's no stranger to firefighting as his father also was a volunteer and his brothers are in the all-volunteer company.
Organized on June 19, 1937, the fire company covers this municipality as well as Loveladies and North Beach, both of which are part of Long Beach Township.
Proposed ordinance curbs roadside shrubbery, fences
August 4, 2010 , By: Nicholas Huba, Asbury Park Press
LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP — The township is moving forward with a plan that would limit plantings and landscaping on a person's property line.
Mayor Joseph Mancini said the ordinance is needed at this time.
"We have people putting retaining walls up right at their property lines and you cannot even open a car door," Mancini explained. "Then they park a little further out in the road and that makes it more difficult to use the road.
"It almost makes the road an alley," Mancini added.
The ordinance is geared to limiting the the use of landscaping or improvements that can be put in the 5 feet between the roadway and the property line, other than curbs and sidewalks.
Included in suggestions for the type of landscaping to be allowed in the area are ground cover not higher then 12 inches high, shade trees that are located a minimum of 7.5 feet from the curb line, and trash bins not exceeding 32 inches in height.
Ronald Marr, a resident of the Beach Haven Gardens section of the township, questioned the ordinance in a letter to the township governing body.
"This 12-inch height restriction is especially onerous in the sections of the Island where older houses have less setback, and are built closely to the front property lines, leaving little space for gardens," Marr wrote. "Just between South 34th and South 24th street (oceanside only), there are about 68 properties, which appear to be in violation of this 12-foot planting height restriction. If you retain the 12-foot height restriction, it will be a significant reversal in the "greening' of LBI, which has occurred in the last 15 years."
The ordinance was introduced during the Board of Commissioners July 9 meeting. A public hearing on the ordinance is scheduled at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6 at the municipal building.
Long Beach Township publishes list of homeowners who haven't signed beach easements on its website
Story Discussion By DONNA WEAVER, Staff Writer | Posted: Sunday, August 1, 2010
LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP - The names of six oceanfront property owners who have not signed easements needed to start a beach-replenishment project now appear on the township's municipal website.
Mayor Joseph Mancini said the property owners are holding up a sand project that could start in the Brant Beach section of the township. But the homeowners say the mayor is using bullying tactics that have them fearing for their privacy and safety.
"This mayor is nasty, and I worry about what he's going to do us," said Ocean Boulevard homeowner Mary Gallagher, 61. "I live in Princeton, in the real world where it's very democratic. Down here, it's like they shove it down your throat."
Mancini dismissed the idea that anyone's safety is at risk and said the township's residents have the right to know who was not signing easements.
"We have better things to do with our time, and if that's the excuse, they're pretty sick people. We're not advocating harassment. This is strictly a public right to know," Mancini said. "We've held the names of these homeowners back for a long time, and now we have to get the project ready for the Army Corps."
Mancini said the township has secured 44 easements between the border with Ship Bottom and 80th Street, a 2-mile-long section. Owners of seven properties have refused to sign easements. One of the holdouts owns two properties in the project area.
Overall, the township is still waiting on more than 100 easements to complete the project in the township's remaining 10 miles. The township is following Harvey Cedars' footsteps by publishing the names of the holdouts on the Long Beach Township website, although it lists only the holdouts between Ship Bottom and 80th.
At issue is the state Department of Environmental Protection's requirement that Long Beach Island's $72 million beach project address issues of public access to the beach. One way the department is doing that is by having homeowners sign easements granting access to the beachfront during the project. Some homeowners have balked at signing the easements because language in the document states that the easements are perpetual.
The DEP and municipalities have tried to ease fears and say the easements will not affect their property value.
Holdouts in Surf City led to portions of beachfront not getting sand.
In Harvey Cedars, holdouts saw their land condemned by eminent domain. Some of those owners appealed, however, and so far have won $1.2 million in awards from an appeals panel for the condemnation, putting the borough's financial health in jeopardy.
Long Beach Township officials have tried to coax owners into signing by approving ordinances that would allow the owners to build higher so that the new Army Corps-engineered dunes will not block their ocean views. The township also has tried the not-so-friendly approach of requiring holdouts to pay for their own sand should beach erosion in front of their properties become a public safety issue.
Gallagher said Mancini has threatened to protest in front of her home.
"The fact that you have my name means there's no privacy. My privacy is being invaded, and I have a constitutional right to oppose this. Some people have come and asked us to sign, but I'm staying strong," she said.
Gallagher said she does not want the project because she does not want a desert in front of her house. She added that the recently completed project in Harvey Cedars speaks volumes because there is no view or ocean breeze and home values are plummeting.
"Now, we have the biggest beach here that we've had in a long time." Gallagher said.
June and Michael Logan own two homes on Ocean Boulevard in Brant Beach.
"Obviously, we're not very happy about it. We have three children to protect. This is not right," June Logan said.
Mancini said the township is not trying to hurt anyone, but instead, the homeowners who refuse to sign easements are hurting their community.
"We're not trying to intimidate anyone. We're trying to notify the community that the project is being held up. There's nothing else we can do with these people. This is strictly the public's right to know," he said.
The names of the homeowners and their addressess appear on the township website. The Press attempted to contact, but was unable to reach, owners Donald Crawford, Patrick and Nussara Decker, Armand and Angela Rienzi, and Mary Ann Lenahan.
Contact Donna Weaver:
609-226-9198
DWeaver@pressofac.com
What's at stake:
Oceanfront property owners who have refused to sign say the easements sign away some of their property rights and can reduce the value of the land. They also have objected that the easements grant permanent access to the beaches in front of their homes.
Oceanfront homeowners who have signed are faced with a less effective beach project or delays in beach-replenishment projects because of holdouts.
Muncipalities have been forced to undertake costly legal proceedings to obtain some easements.
Posted in OCEAN on Sunday, August 1, 2010
MOTORISTS in New Jersey MUST stop for pedestrians in a marked crosswalk. Failure to observe the law may subject you to one or more of the following:
2 POINTS
$200 FINE (plus court costs)
15 DAYS COMMUNITY SERVICE
INSURANCE SURCHARGES
NEW JERSEY STATUTE 39:4-36
Driver to stop for pedestrian:
exceptions, violations. penalties.
A. The driver of a vehicle must stop and stay stopped for a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk, but shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except at crosswalks when the movement of traffic is being regulated by police officers or traffic control signals, or where otherwise prohibited by municipal, county, or State regulation, and except where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided, but no pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield.
Whenever any vehicle is stopped to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
Every pedestrian upon a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
B. A person violating this section shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine to be imposed by the court in the amount of $200. The court may also impose a term of community service not to exceed 15 days.
C. Of each fine imposed and collected pursuant to subsection B. of the section, $100 shall be forwarded to the State Treasurer who shall annually deposit the moneys into the “Pedestrian Safety Enforcement and Education Fund” created by section 1 of PL 2005, c 84 (C.39:4-36.2)
PEDESTRIANS MUST obey pedestrian signals and use crosswalks at signalized intersections. Both carry a $54.00 fine for failure to observe the law.
(C.39:4-32 and 33)
Township Notices
**Attention Ocean front property owners
Army Corps of Engineers and NJ Department of Environmental Protection explanation of easements.
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Please go on the following township web site and click on the explanation of easements letter that was sent to Mayor Mancini from the Army Corps of Engineers on June 17, 2010.
http://www.longbeachtownship.com/
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