The MANCHESTER Times Vol. 28 - No. 18
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By Bob Vosseller LAKEHURST – While the local Night Out Against Crime was designed for two neighboring police departments to have a good time together while interacting with the residents, there was also some friendly competition. This year’s event featured a donut-eating contest between Manchester and Lakehurst’s officers in blue. It was not just how many donuts were consumed (and for that, the Lakehurst PD had it down, quickly winning the contest) but this event (Team - See Page 7)
Manchester To Purchase Open Space
–Photos By Bob Vosseller (Above) Lakehurst Police Department Detective Madelyn Poss, at left, joins Lt. Ian James, Lakehurst Chief Matthew Kline, Manchester Chief Robert Dolan, Chaplain Owen Alston, and Manchester Detective Joseph Fastige. (Bottom left) Attendees of the Lakehurst National Night Out Against Crime line up for some free food. (Bottom right) An Ocean County Sheriff ’s Officer brought his horse to meet the public.
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National American Legion Commander Visits Ocean County
–Photo By Bob Vosselle National American Legion Commander Paul Dillard recently visited Seaside Heights American Legion Post 351.
By Bob Vosseller SEASIDE HEIGHTS – American Legion Post 351 received a special visitor recently in the form of American Legion National Commander Paul Dillard of Texas. Dillard, who is the leader of the nation’s largest veterans service organization, toured the Shore Boro Post which is
one of the oldest Legion posts in Ocean County. He met with Post 351 Commander Rich Angioletti, former commander Bill Kevish and other members of the Post Borough Mayor Anthony Vaz was among the Legion members present for the morning visit which included State Commander Daniel Dunn and
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By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – Mayor Robert Hudak and township officials are excited about the purchase of more open space in the community. The mayor told The Manchester Times that the purchase of the 16.5 acres near Hilltop Nursery School. “What happened was a developer came to us requesting us to vacate streets so they could build more houses on the site.” A street vacation is a technical term for when a town deletes paper streets. These are streets that are drawn on a map of a town but in reality, there is just an undeveloped area. “I don’t know if they had an official plan or not. That was the thought of what they wanted to do and we turned around and said ‘Instead of vacating the streets why not buy the property and use it for open space?’ We are now able to preserve that property and stop housing development from occurring there,” Mayor Hudak said. The mayor said it would be used for open space, “public land and preserved so it won’t be developed in the future.” This is separate from an Ocean County park project involving recently purchased open space within the township. “This is on the other side of Route 37,” the mayor said. This land will be paid with open space funds according to Township Clerk Sabina Martin. The $49,960 purchase is still in process awaiting paperwork from the title company. The property is made up of various parcels in the same area. Business Administrator Brandon Umba explained during the first reading of the ordinance that originally, “the owner of the property wanted us to vacate our land and vacate streets in favor of them creating new block lots to build homes.” “The amount of land they were requesting from us was something of a cumbersome nature to the point we asked how much are you invested in building these homes. At that point we negotiated it so that it was (Open Space - See Page 5)
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