TheTOMS RIVER Times Vol. 18 - No. 33
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─Photos by Stephanie A. Faughnan and Toms River Schools (Above): Newly reminted county GOP leader George Gilmore shows the election results to his running mate, Ruthanne Scaturro. (Center): The Toms River Field of Dreams opened at Bey Lea Park on North Bay Avenue. (Below): New Superintendent Michael Citta addresses the community.
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Inside The Law
By Chris Lundy TOMS RIVER – This year marked a lot of changes in a world that is already moving very fast. If you blink, you might miss the closure of a major business, like how Friendly’s on Route 37 and the AMC theater at the Seacourt Mall disappeared with very little warning. Sometimes, though, change happens more slowly: The country is still not the same as we were pre-COVID, but masks aren’t required in school any more. Some of the big stories in this article were issues that happened state-wide, but we focused on the ones that mean (2022 - See Page 4)
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People Get Ready, There’s A Train Show Coming
─Photo by Mark Bator Club member Bud Phillips inspects one of the layouts at the OCSMR’s headquarters in Lakewood.
By Mark Bator LAKEWOOD - Little did anyone know that when the five founding members of a local hobby club first formed their group in 1987 that it would still be running strong 35 years later. But that’s exactly
what happened, and the Ocean County Society of Model Railroaders (O CSM R) r e c e nt ly had their open house Christmas Train Show on Dec. 10 and 11 to demonstrate to the general public just how (Train - See Page 8)
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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY: A Very Toms River Christmas By J. Mark Mutter Christmas in Toms River in 1922: What a time it was! Here’s the story. The World 100 Years Ago One hundred years ago, the world was in the throes of change. T he “G reat War” World War One - had
ended just four years earlier and America was on a path of a “return to normalcy.” It was the “Roaring 20s.” By Christmas of that year, Benito Mussolini had seized power in Italy, the Soviet Union was created, Greece and Turkey signed a ceasef ire, and King
Tut’s tomb was discovered. In the United States, Warren Harding was in the second year of his presidency, but since the spring, he was beseiged by the escalating “Tea Pot Dome” scandal. In May, the Lincoln Memorial opened. (History - See Page 19)
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